Projekty

In January 2026, a report was published presenting the results of a study conducted by an interdisciplinary team affiliated with the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, entitled “Slim Chances… LET’S CHECK! A Study on the Presence of Women at Public Art Universities, 2025.” The study examined the issue of the glass ceiling encountered by women within academic structures. Its aim was to compare and update the findings of the 2015 study “Little chance to advance?”, which had been carried out by a research team commissioned by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation.

The exhibition opening will take place on March 20, from 7:00–10:00 PM.
Biuro Wystaw / Fundacja Polskiej Sztuki Nowoczesnej

The exhibition Przeciw(stawanie). Pękająca cisza ciałem, presented at Galeria Turnus, was accompanied by an extensive program of performances and discussion sessions that developed the exhibition’s key themes: the body understood as process, a space of experience and relationality, a field of social tensions, and also a site of resistance and agency. Opening Performance The program […]

  Przeciw(stawanie). Pękająca cisza ciałem is an exhibition that treats the body as a space where personal and political experiences intersect. Intimacy does not function here as a private sphere—stories about oneself always carry traces of external structures: violence, norms, exclusion, but also care, tenderness, and community.   The invited artists work with performance, installation, sound, […]

Who is the artist in a world that is constantly breaking apart and reshaping itself? How does she navigate displacement, change, and the search for a new place to belong?   Dinka Lenova was born in a country that may have fallen apart, but its history still resonates in people and places. Her work is […]

In 2025, it will be ten years since the release of the publication “Slim Chances for Promotion? A Report on the Presence of Women in Art Academies in Poland”, which was based on a study conducted by a team commissioned by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation.* The study addressed the issue of the glass ceiling faced […]

Open Call for female-identifying artists at the start of their careers to participate in Secondary Archive – an online archive of Central and Eastern European women artists. Deadline 3rd of October 2024.

The exhibition opening will take place on October 30th at 7:00 PM at Turnus.

This two-year project brings together the reconstruction of video materials, the digitization of photographs, documents, and other artistic collections—including previously unseen sketches by the artist—alongside essential conservation work. A key aspect of the project is the reconstruction of videos, featuring works like The Rite of Spring.   The results of the project, including an online […]

The conference presenting the Secondary Archive platform for female artists from Central and Eastern Europe will take place in the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, on the 6th of June at 5:00 p.m.

The “Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War” exhibition’s opening takes place on Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 p.m. at Galeria Labirynt.

15th of March 2024, at 6:00 p.m. CET 15 female artists from Ukraine will join Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation’s Secondary Archive platform within the framework of the project  ‘Secondary Archive. Women Artists in War’ implemented with Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro and Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin.  

On 6-7.02. a two-day conference is taking place at the ZODIAK Warsaw Architecture Pavilion together with the Architektoniczki collective. The event will focus on the analysis of inclusivity, gender equality and social exclusion in urban planning and architecture.

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) in partnership with Artsvit Gallery (Ukraine) and Galeria Labirynt (Poland) held the open competition as a part of the “Secondary Archive. Women Artists in War” project, through which 5 female artists from younger generation were selected.

At the beginning of September 2023, we plan to launch the next edition of FRIENDS. The collection contains some surprises. In the meantime, we would like to remind you about the previous editions of the program, which was created in 2019.

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, together with the interdisciplinary collective Architektoniczki, is currently implementing a mobility program subsidized by the European Union. The aim of the project is, among other things, to establish transnational cooperation with organizations dealing with gender issues in urban planning.

On the 18th of October 2023, the first Exploratory Night Walk in Poland took place in Warsaw. The event was organised by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation in collaboration with the Architektoniczki collective, thanks to funding obtained under the Miasto Otwarte project. The operator of the programme of the Capital City of Warsaw is the Inna Przestrzeń Foundation.

Agata Cieślak’s exhibition “We Were Tending to the Remains (II)” runs from the 10th of March until the 7th of May. The event inaugurates a new project of the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation – Przeciw(stawanie). The first edition was done in cooperation with the Dzielna Foundation.

In the front window of the Warsaw Observatory of Culture there will be showing of the project “Secondary Archive: Ukrainian artists’ sound statements” that will last until 5th of March. Installation can be seen and heard from Marszałkowska 34/50 street.

On the 27th of October, 144 female artists from Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and the Visegrad Group countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, will join the Secondary Archive project – a platform promoting and archiving the works of women from Central and Eastern Europe through first-person statements by female artists.

On 23rd of February, 70 artists from Ukraine and Belarus will join the Secondary Archive project – a unique initiative on a European scale that responds to the problem of the lack of visibility of women from Central and Eastern Europe in recent art history.

Over 160 female artists from Albania, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine will participate in the Secondary Archive exhibition that have been included in the programme of Manifesta 14 – The European Nomadic Biennial. Biennial, which this year will take place in the capital of Kosovo – Prishtina, officially opens […]

Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) and the partners are pleased to invite women artists at the start of their careers to participate in an Open Call for Secondary Archive – an online archive of Central and Eastern European women artists.

secondaryarchive.org is growing!

At the beginning of December, we launched the Foundation’s profile on the Patronite website, thanks to which you are able to regularly and directly support its further activities.

17.06.2021 -18.07.2021
The first solo exhibition of the artist in Poznań.
Office building Bałtyk and Art bay by Concordia Design

SECONDARY ARCHIVE ANNOUNCEMENT! OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG WOMEN ARTISTS FROM UKRAINE AND BELARUS

The retrospective exhibition of Urszula Broll’s painting at the Muzeum Karkonoskie in Jelenia Góra
21.05.2021 – 25.07.2021

The artist’s monographic exhibition at the Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw
5.05.2021 – 23.05.2021

Over 250 artists, 40 curators and one platform that turns the spotlight on statements of women from Central and Eastern Europe.

A collection of photographs from the archives of Kamil Sipowicz, Tomasz Sikora, Ryszard Borek, Jacek Szmuc, Piotr Marek, Stefan Okołowicz and KwieKulik Archive. The curator of the exhibition is Kamil Sipowicz.

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) in partnership with MeetFactory (Czech Republic), Easttopics (Hungary) and Björnsonova (Slovakia) invites young female* artists to participate in the Secondary Archive, an online platform for Central and Eastern Europe women artists.

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) in partnership with MeetFactory (Czech Republic), Easttopics (Hungary) and Björnsonova (Slovakia) invites young female* artists to participate in the Secondary Archive, an online platform for Central and Eastern Europe women artists.

The first complete retrospective catalogue of Urszula Broll’s work, published by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation.

This is a project implemented at the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, which aims to show how space, city, world would look like if women had a greater share in its creation.

At the beginning of 2019, the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation started the series of podcasts Lost Talks_Warsaw. Depending on the topic, we will invite people involved not only with the visual arts, but also people from outside this field of interest. Language of the podcasts is Polish.

Urszula Broll. Atman Means Breath
23/06/2020 – 27/09/2020
Exhibition at the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at Królikarnia Palace, division of the National Museum in Warsaw

“Looking for Jesus” is the latest project of Katarzyna Kozyra, influenced by the, so-called, Jerusalem syndrome – an acute delusional disorder, described in medicine only in the second half of the 20th century. Those suffering from it, when visiting the Holy Land, identify themselves with biblical characters, most often with the Messiah.

Festiwal Komentatorki to wydarzenie oparte na relacji i interakcji z publicznością. Chcieliśmy stworzyć przestrzeń dialogu między rosyjskimi i ukraińskimi artystkami oraz polską publicznością w Warszawie.

Dr Zuzana Štefková (Uniwersytet Karola w Pradze) jest historyczką sztuki, która prowadzi badania na temat rodzicielstwa w sztuce wsparte przez grant sieci COST IS1307 i Fundację Katarzyny Kozyry.

Dr Zuzana Štefková (Uniwersytet Karola w Pradze) jest historyczką sztuki, która prowadzi badania na temat rodzicielstwa w sztuce wsparte przez grant sieci COST IS1307 i Fundację Katarzyny Kozyry.

Mamy przyjemność poinformować, że Fundacja jest organizatorem pierwszej indywidualnej wystawy Katarzyny Kozyry w Chinach, w Three Shadows Photography Art Centre w Pekinie, które jest jedynym centrum sztuki w Chinach w całości poświęconym promowaniu współczesnej sztuki wideo i fotografii.

Fundacja miała przyjemność zrealizować projekt artystyczny Katarzyny Kozyry dla Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej z okazji 10-lecia istnienia instytucji.

Krytyczka sztuki, reżyserka teatralna i filmowa – Liza mieszka i pracuje między Kijowem a Moskwą. Tekst znajdujący się na stronie powstał pod wpływem Festiwalu Komentatorki.

Katarzyna Kozyra została laureatką 4. edycji Nagrody Filmowej Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie oraz Szkoły Wajdy przyznanej podczas 39. Festiwalu Filmowym w Gdyni. 

Malarstwo Katarzyny Rotkiewicz-Szumskiej jest ekspresyjne niezależnie od tego czy artystka porusza się na poziomie abstrakcji, czy malarstwa figuratywnego. Artystka zniekształca wizerunek kamienia, człowieka, zabawki, a jednak nie zatraca realności ich przedstawienia.

Strona zawiera szczegółowy program Festiwalu zorganizowanego w oddziale Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie wraz z materiałem audiowizualnym i dokumentacyjnym.