I am pleased to announce that I am among the artists who have been invited to contribute to a publication on contemporary collage in Poland.
Magdalena Sobolska invited people for whom collage – analogue, digital or mixed – is the main (or leading) creative medium to participate in an open call for a book with the working title ‘(Re)constructions. Contemporary collage in Poland’. The publication aims to present collage as an expressive artistic form that is a fully-fledged art form. The future author, also an artist, wants to show the diversity of approaches, the unique creative strategies of artists working in this medium, and its ecological aspect. The publication will include profiles of collage artists, curatorial texts and an extensive presentation of works that will allow readers to feel the unique potential of this technique.
Applications were submitted via a form. A total of 102 applications were received, from which Magdalena Sobolska selected 10 people.
Here is the list of people selected to participate in the publication:
Agnieszka Fyda
for captivating attention to detail and micro-observations of everyday life
Tomasz Haładaj
with assemblages, as the artistic heir to Dadaism
Julia Majewska
for its disturbing collage language, which serves to tell stories about contemporary threats
Aleks Matuska
for artistic practice intertwined with experience, collage with a performative flavour
Maryna Siliakova
for combining individual sensitivity with the use of collage as a bridge for building community and a sense of security
Appendix (without study visit with photographic documentation):
Marta Janik
flirting with literature and representing fairy-tale surrealism
Nikola Kosik
for feminist conflicts
Nikodem Lazurek
for abstract and witty expansion of reality
Gabriela Palicka
for visually captivating stories, in dialogue with symbols of visual culture
Zuzanna Śmigielska
accumulating collage-like qualities up to the multimedia layer
The book will be published in 2026.