MONIKA MAMZETA. SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD.
About the event
MONIKA MAMZETA — SOMETHING NEW AND SOMETHING OLD
Exhibition opening: 12.03.2026, 6:00 PM
Exhibition duration: 12.03.2026–10.05.2026
Opening hours: Wed–Sun: 12:00–18:00
Venue: Fundacja Alina, ul. Brzozowa 31/33 lok. 1, 00-258 Warsaw
Contact: kontakt@fundacjaalina.pl
Description:
Monika Mamzeta studied sculpture in Professor Grzegorz Kowalski’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She was at the epicentre of the critical art movement emerging in the 1990s. She shared the conviction of her peers from “Kowalnia” that artistic practice can be an important tool for social change. Mamzeta distinguished herself through her forward-looking sensitivity to gender issues and her courage in formulating feminist demands directly. She engaged with the politics of the body and its various states — motherhood, ageing, illness.
Mamzeta’s most recent works are a consistent continuation of her earlier interventions, yet they acquire a new quality — they are more intimate and personal. If the artist examines cultural codes, they are only those internalized; if trauma, it concerns the family. In line with the autobiographical turn, Monika Mamzeta’s art conceives of change as a therapeutic process.
The artist allows us to glimpse this process, trusting that her courage will help us open our grandmother’s chest containing old traumas. If we choose to look inside and work through family entanglements, we will have a chance to free ourselves from the cycle of unconsciously repeating patterns of behaviour and reproducing violence. The artist wants her art to open a space for communication and for micro-histories of personal development to build social change.
Agnieszka Tarasiuk
- Artist-led performative guided tour — led by Monika Mamzeta
Sunday, 15 March 2026, 4:00 PM - “Family Values” — a conversation with Monika Mamzeta, moderated by Dr Elżbieta Korolczuk
Thursday, 26 March 2026, 6:00 PM
(meeting co-organized with Galeria Lokal 30) - Lecture: “Between Tenderness and Rebellion. Motherhood in Feminist Art” — Monika Przypkowska
Sunday, 12 April 2026, 4:00 PM - Artist-led performative guided tour — led by Monika Mamzeta
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 4:00 PM
- Works realised as part of a grant from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
- The author received a scholarship from the Fund for the Promotion of Creativity of the Authors' Association ZAiKS.
