"(No) Escape Room" Apolonia Bokszycka — exhibition {Project Room}
About the event
"(No) Escape Room" — Apolonia Bokszycka — exhibition {Project Room}
📅 26/02/2026—05/04/2026
⏰ Opening: 26/02/2026, 19:00
Location: Sala {Project Room}
- Curator: Marta Grytczuk
- Curator of the series: Krystyna Różańska — Gorgolewska
- Visual identity of the series: Olena Deviatkina
Apolonia Bokszycka's exhibition adopts the escape room format to analyze the mechanisms governing contemporary information and attention flows. It focuses on phenomena such as the attention economy, gamification (the use of game-like mechanisms in other areas of life) and fake agency, examining the ways media and platform systems organize perception, response and audience engagement. The project also refers to media overheating — the accelerated and intensified circulation of information — and to compassion fatigue resulting from excessive exposure to images of violence, disasters and crises. These phenomena are not merely the subjects of the narrative here but part of the experience itself.
The exhibition is designed as a sequential, looping spatial structure and does not lead to a definitive solution or "exit". The visitor's movement through the Project Room follows the logic known from digital information circulation: fragmentary, escalating and based on continuous updating. An important element of the project is treating the media experience as something that engages the body, and deliberately shifting emphasis from visual dominance to touch and smell. The exhibition problematizes the relationship between the body and technology, presenting media not as neutral tools of seeing but as systems that reorganize our senses and ways of being in space.
Apolonia Bokszycka (b. 1996 in the Tricity) currently studies Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is interested in the entanglement of technology and systems of power and their impact on contemporary identity. She previously graduated in cognitive science from the University of Warsaw (2020) and in 2016 studied mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In her practice she uses installation, sound and interactive experience media, applying speculative methods to explore new meanings and structures. She is the creator of the KIKIMORA project, a DJ and music producer; her works have been presented, among others, at Cracow Art Week KRAKERS (2025), in the Pavilion in Poznań (2024) and on 20ft Radio in Kyiv.
Media partners:
- Polskie Radio RDC
- TVP Kultura
- Aktivist
The exhibition series is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
