Author: Michalina Sablik

Michalina Sablik is an art historian, critic, and curator. She has worked at the Promocyjna Gallery and the Staromiejski Dom Kultury in Warsaw, as well as at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute/Culture.pl. Since 2018, she has curated over 20 exhibitions showcasing the work of Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian artists. She collaborates with numerous institutions, galleries, NGOs, and art magazines, and is a member of the AICA association. In 2021 she has curated the exhibition "In these days of tumult, heat and dazzle I retreat in my mind" at the Stefan Gierowski Foundation in Warsaw. The exhibition was recognized by Newsweek Polska as one of the most important in a given year. She is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, where she conducts research on performance art in Poland and Eastern Europe. More info: https://linktr.ee/michalinasablik

  • Text: Raczyńska

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Hay. The phantasmagorical work of Anna Raczyńska She extends his hands in front of her. On one of them I see a tattoo of the euro symbol. ShHe arranges heris fingers framing the landscape in front of her. I know it very well. I can smell the image in my nostrils. We used to call…

  • Text: Laureta

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Lurking, Aesthetic of Withdrawal and Y2K. On Laureta Hajrullahu’s Practice The National Gallery of Kosovo | 2026 The world of games of the margins today proposes alternative modes of being online. It is no longer about yet another variation on the heroic journey, centered on a (most often male) protagonist driven by a progressive narrative…

  • Paulina Stasik

    ByMichalina Sablik

    A View of One’s Own. Paulina Stasik BWA Tarnów | 2025 The paintings of Paulina Stasik, a Kraków-based artist, though at first glance filled with allegories and symbols, are deeply rooted in her autobiography. They form an intimate, yet camouflaged, self-portrait over time. The year 2025 marks a turning point for her, as she reaches…

  • Slime by Joanna Fluder

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Slime. Joanna Fluder Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw | 2025 The Slime exhibition presents a selection of 140 recent gouaches on paper or canvas, and premiere installations created especially for the space of Zachęta. Joanna Fluder has developed her own artistic language that combines surrealism, personal mythology, humour, and a vivid imagination. In her works, she…

  • Soft Smiths

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Soft Smiths. Contemporary Women’s* Metalwork Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko | 2025 The Soft Smiths exhibition tells the story of women reaching for what had long been inaccessible to them—fire, metal, strength. It is a symbolic revolt against Swarog, the Slavic god of the sun, fire, and metallurgy, and the patron of blacksmiths. The…

  • Hyperlocality

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Hyperlocality. Personal Cartographies CasCaDas ArtSpace in Barcelona | 2025 Artists: Lena Laguna Diel, Ana Lucia Garcia Hoefken, Sejal Parekh, Pol Pinto, Carla Rebelo. Curation: Fiona Fell, Michalina Sablik   A dirty monitor screen, a scratched desk, a mouse that follows the movement of the hand. It is from behind this desk – an inconspicuous anchor…

  • Mammals&Suckers

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Mammals&Suckers HOS Gallery in Warsaw | 2025 Before you stands Mammals and Suckers – a global mining consortium that bores into the fabric of the planet, slicing through its layers, draining its innards. Its tentacles reach further and deeper in search of the precious resources of life: oil, gas, oils, sap, milk, resins and blood….

  • Fragile Dreams

    ByMichalina Sablik

    Mammals&Suckers HOS Gallery in Warsaw | 2025 Before you stands Mammals and Suckers – a global mining consortium that bores into the fabric of the planet, slicing through its layers, draining its innards. Its tentacles reach further and deeper in search of the precious resources of life: oil, gas, oils, sap, milk, resins and blood….

  • We Are a Dream

    ByMichalina Sablik

    We Are a Dream Kunsthalle.Ost in Leipzig | 2024 In her solo exhibition, Aleksandra Liput refers to Ursula Le Guin’s science-fiction book The Lathe of Heaven. The plot of the book takes place in a violent, retrofuturistic dark city in a dystopian world, which in many ways resembles the reality we live in during the…

  • A MAN EATING HIS OWN TAIL

    ByMichalina Sablik

    A Man Eating His Own Tail CasCaDas ArtSpace | 2024 In the latest installation, “A Man Eating His Own Tail,” Przemek Branas references the transcultural mythical figure of the Ouroboros. Associated with solar cults, the serpent became a symbol of infinity, eternal return, and the cyclical nature of time. This constantly devouring and regenerating mythical…