"(No) Escape Room" Apolonia Bokszycka — exhibition {Project Room}

About the event

(No) Escape Room — Apolonia Bokszycka Date: 26/02/2026—05/04/2026 Vernissage: 26/02/2026, 19:00 Location: Sala {Project Room} Curator: Marta Grytczuk Series curator: Krystyna Różańska — Gorgolewska Visual identity of the series: Olena Deviatkina Apolonia Bokszycka’s exhibition adopts the escape room format to examine the mechanisms governing contemporary flows of information and attention. It focuses on phenomena such as the attention economy, gamification (the application of game mechanics to other areas of life) and apparent agency (fake agency), analyzing the ways in which media and platform systems organize perception, response and audience engagement. The project also addresses media overheating — the accelerated and intensified circulation of information — and compassion fatigue resulting from excessive exposure to images of violence, disasters and crises. These phenomena are not merely the exhibition’s subject matter but part of the experience itself. The exhibition is designed as a sequential, looped spatial structure and does not lead to a definitive solution or “exit.” The visitor’s movement through the Project Room follows the logic familiar from digital information circulation: fragmentary, escalating and based on continuous updating. An important element of the project is treating the media experience as something that engages bodies, and deliberately shifting emphasis from the dominance of sight to touch and smell. The exhibition thus problematizes the relationship between body and technology, presenting media not as neutral tools of seeing but as systems that reorganize our senses and ways of being in space. (No) Escape Room does not offer a nostalgic critique of technology or simple escape strategies. Instead, it situates the viewer within the system, enabling observation of the mechanisms that regulate attention and agency amid contemporary informational crises. About the artist: Apolonia Bokszycka (born 1996 in the Tricity) currently studies Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is interested in the entanglement of technology and systems of power and their impact on contemporary identity. Her practice is distinguished by a scholarly background in cognitive studies and artificial intelligence — she graduated in cognitive science from the University of Warsaw (2020). In 2016 she also studied mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In her expanded practice she uses the media of installation, sound and interactive experience. She employs speculative methods to explore new meanings and structures. She is the creator of the KIKIMORA project, focused on deconstructing forms and meanings — technological, aesthetic and social — within the club culture of electronic music. She is a DJ and music producer. Her work has been heard, among others, at Cracow Art Week KRAKERS (2025), in the municipal gallery Pawilon in Poznań (2024) and on Kyiv’s 20ft Radio. Media partnership: Polskie Radio RDC TVP Kultura Aktivist The exhibition series is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.