Weronika Gęsicka, "Encyklopedia" 📅 Vernissage: 08.12.2025 (Monday), 18:00 📅 Exhibition: 10.12.2025–14.02.2026 Curator: Katarzyna Sagatowska Venue: JEDNOSTKA Gallery 13 Andersa St., 00-159 Warsaw 🕒 JEDNOSTKA's opening hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 14:00–18:00 or by appointment Holiday break: 24.12.2025–06.01.2026 🎤 Artist talk: 09.12.2025 (Tuesday), 18:00 Place: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 103 Marszałkowska St., 00-110 Warsaw Host: Katarzyna Sagatowska Coorganisers: MoMa Warsaw, Wydawnictwo MSN, JEDNOSTKA Gallery Weronika Gęsicka's acclaimed series ‘Encyclopaedia’ will be on view at Jednostka Gallery in Warsaw from December 8, 2025. The exhibition will feature premiere works from the series as well as the ‘Encyclopaedia’ book, which is nominated for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, was named Photographic Publication of the Year 2025 in Poland, and was also a finalist for the Book Award 2025 during the Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles festival in France. A special edition of the publication will have its Polish premiere at Jednostka. Encyclopaedia is a compendium of knowledge, which we refer to as a source of trustworthy, reliable information. It’s a database that dispels our doubts. It’s certainty. However, what if but a single mistake creeps into something certain and indisputable? Doesn’t it put everything else into question, prompting one to disregard it as useless? Can knowledge be objective in a world we find out more about each day? In a world where fake news are a daily occurrence? Fake entries are bits of incorrect information in encyclopaedias, dictionaries and lexicons that have existed ever since those sources were first published. These deceitful notes were left by editors as a form of protection against copyright infringement. Some immediately raise suspicion regarding their factuality, while others would probably slip in unnoticed by most. Although these are usually singular cases, there are several publications riddled with such 'mistakes'. Still, they would hardly be detected among the tens of thousands of other definitions. 'Encyclopaedia' is a project which comprises hundreds of such false entries found in various encyclopedias, dictionaries and lexicons from different places and time periods. Weronika Gęsicka illustrates them with collages based on stock photographs and AI-generated images. The actual publications including such entries, bought by the artist at online auctions, are also displayed. Here, the truth functions on the same grounds as fiction. Weronika Gęsicka (b. 1984) Visual artist. She has created photographic works and installations over the past decade that explore and intentionally complicated our sense of visual histories, evidential knowledge, and shared memories. Photography is the predominant medium of her work and practice – the source, context, material and the resolution of her explorations of societal roles, official histories, cultural shifts, and hidden narratives. Gęsicka eagerly works with archival materials, including images found accidentally on the internet, but also those from stock photo libraries, police archives, and the press. In her most recent project – 'Encyclopaedia' – she has extended her explorations to AI tools that allow her to go further into the realms of the hypothetical and visually uncertain. She graduated from the Graphics Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts and completed her studies at the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. A winner of Polityka's Passport (Paszport Polityki) 2019 Award in the Visual arts category (2020), EMOP Arendt Award (2019), Foam Talent (2017). She received a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2008. Her works have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Internazionale, Spiegel Online, Le Monde and many other magazines. Her works have been exhibitied worldwide and can be found in prestigious collections, including Dom Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria; Arendt Collection, Luxembourg; MuFo Museum of Photography, Kraków, Poland; Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Germany; National Museum in Wrocław, Poland. Partner: Artesola Gallery The exhibition is funded by the City of Warsaw as part of the Kulturalna Jednostka 2025 project.
