MONIKA MAMZETA — SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD Exhibition opening: 12.03.2026, 6:00 PM Exhibition duration: 12.03.2026–10.05.2026 Opening hours: Wed–Sun: 12:00–18:00 Venue: Fundacja Alina, ul. Brzozowa 31/33 lok. 1, 00-258 Warsaw Contact: kontakt@fundacjaalina.pl Description: Monika Mamzeta studied sculpture in Professor Grzegorz Kowalski’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She was at the epicentre of the critical art movement emerging in the 1990s. She shared the conviction of her peers from “Kowalnia” that artistic practice can be an important tool for social change. She stood out for her ahead-of-its-time sensitivity to gender issues and the courage to state feminist demands directly. She worked through the politics of the body and its states: motherhood, ageing, illness. Her most recent works consistently continue earlier approaches, yet gain a new quality — they are more intimate and personal. If the artist examines cultural codes — they are only those internalized; if trauma — then familial. Fitting the autobiographical turn, Monika Mamzeta’s art serves change understood as a therapeutic process. The artist allows us to observe this process, believing that her courage will help us open our grandmother’s little chest hiding old traumas. If we decide to look inside and work through family entanglements, we will have a chance to free ourselves from the cycle of unconsciously repeating patterns and reproducing violence. The artist wants her art to open a plane of communication and for social change to be built from micro-histories of each person’s personal development. Agnieszka Tarasiuk • Artist-led performative guided tour — led by Monika Mamzeta: Sunday, 15 March 2026, 4:00 PM • “Family Values” — a conversation with Monika Mamzeta, moderated by Dr Elżbieta Korolczuk: Thursday, 26 March 2026, 6:00 PM (meeting co-organized with Galeria Lokal 30) • Lecture: “Between Tenderness and Rebellion. Motherhood in Feminist Art” — Monika Przypkowska: Sunday, 12 April 2026, 4:00 PM • Artist-led performative guided tour — led by Monika Mamzeta: Sunday, 10 May 2026, 4:00 PM • Works realised as part of a grant from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. • The author received a scholarship from the Fund for the Promotion of Creativity of the Authors' Association ZAiKS.
