OMAM – exhibition – Ola Kot, Mateusz Dąbrowski, Michał Chojecki

OMAM — exhibition by the ASSMBL collective

Artists:

• Ola Kot
• Mateusz Dąbrowski
• Michał Chojecki

📍 Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia, Skoczylasa 8, Warsaw

Opening: 23.01.2026 (Friday), 19:00
Exhibition on view: 24.01-22.02.2026

Opening hours:

• Wednesday–Friday 16:00–20:00
• Saturday–Sunday 12:00–18:00

We invite you to the opening of the OMAM exhibition by Ola Kot, Mateusz Dąbrowski and Michał Chojecki.

The artists present works grounded in fragile and unstable matter. The installations are a reflection of their considerations about their own limits in relation to social and individual expectations and the challenges we face daily. The artists ask about the boundaries of freedom, the limits of subjectivity, and the roles of the individual in the face of elusive changes.

Contemplative text (Mateusz Dąbrowski):

OMAM

Keywords and associations:

• changed, ephemeral, to oneself, approaching, to function, undulating, rustling, surface, form, fate, destiny, dimension

Anxiety has become one of the more frequent experiences of everyday life today. It appears as a reaction to unpredictability — to processes and circumstances over which we often have no real influence. New situations constantly place us before realities we do not choose but must adapt to. We are interested in the moment of confrontation: the first contact with what is already given — before we have time to tame, understand or name it. We wonder whether continuous change encourages reflection on our fragility, or rather leads to narcissistic closing in on oneself and focusing on one’s own limitations.

• systemic, impersonal, exposes, at once, transience, multiplicity, repetition, order, sheets, construction, glitches, error

• echo, motionless, still, incidentally, quietly, beyond, very, technical, ephemeral, biological, hidden, invisible

Do new circumstances not force us to constantly reevaluate our experiences? Do successive social roles and continual adaptation to changing conditions eventually lead to objectification — to a situation in which sensitivity is reduced to a set of learned reactions? We also wonder whether systemic mechanisms — by nature indifferent or oppressive toward people — cause us to remain unnoticed, despite our individual and authentic presence.

• excess, role, force, format, moment, question, powerlessness, freely, fall, undertaken, role, agency, quality, insignificance, paper, adapt, plurality

Wiesław Myśliwski wrote that history and the world are as the individual sees them — even if from childhood the community shapes us. Perhaps that is why our creativity grows out of uncertainty, ignorance and doubts about the circumstances in which we function.

• assimilated, signs, letter, meanings, movement, sound, trace, memory, I don’t know, soft, soaks in, surroundings, between, us

• omam, beginning, tremor, susceptible, unstable, in parallel, performs, resulting, activities, stimulates, beginning, interruption

We also reflect on the limits of freedom — on the extent to which contemporary, highly politicized processes narrow the field of choice, simplifying individual experience into slogans and categories. We ask how such reduction affects the way of experiencing one's subjectivity.

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