Not Just for Trade 🗓️ The exhibition will be on display until 16.12.2025 🕒 Monday-Tuesday, 3:00 PM–6:00 PM / free admission 📍 Pavilion No. 27, market under the Marymoncka Hall Artists: - Paulina Gula - Agata Hudomięt - Natalia Łajszczak - Justyna Radziej - Paulina Wojdyna Curator: Paulina Gula Markets and trading spaces are an essential part of the landscape of almost every city—from global metropolises to small towns. Their architecture, often makeshift and heterogeneous, creates a space open to experimentation. These are places that often escape urban planning, yet play an important role in social networks, where different worlds and stories meet. In the context of the contemporary city, which is undergoing extensive gentrification processes, markets remain inclusive spaces open to various cultures and social groups. The exhibition "Not Just for Trade" presents the market as a living and multi-layered organism. The artists examine both the specific location—the market under the Marymoncka Hall—and the phenomenon of the marketplace itself, understood as a space with historical, social, cultural, and urban dimensions. The works on display create a narrative balancing between documentary and artistic intervention, each offering a slightly different perspective on the broadly understood market space. The common denominator of these works is an interest in everyday life, in what is often unnoticed and unobvious, yet extremely important for experiencing a place. In this approach, the market becomes a set of relationships—between people, objects, and space.
