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Polish-Łemko artist and musician. London / Wrocław based
@krupa_art_foundation All the diamonds, 16/05 - 5/07

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In a surprising turn of events I will be joining other musicians at The Ditch in Shoreditch Town Hall tomorrow.

Full line-up below:

2:00–2:30pm — Karolina Lebek
Artist and musician working across video, installation and live performance, exploring consciousness, ecology, and ancestral knowledge through a poetry of decay and transformation.

3:00–3:30pm — Alpha A—Z (Anne Duffau)
Cultural producer and founder of the nomadic curatorial platform A—Z, producing otherworldly electronic soundscapes that challenge received ideas about race, gender and history.

4:00–4:30pm — Bliss Carmxn (Adam Jovanović Kaasa)
Genre-blurring alt-pop shaped by queer poetics, archival research, and a deep investment in voice as a medium of memory and transformation.

5:00–5:30pm — PYTKO
London-based producer and songwriter layering voice, field recordings and unconventional textures into immersive sonic worlds that blur song, sculpture, and storytelling.

@royalcollegeofart @sxswlondon @shoreditchth by @karolinalebek

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I’m extremely excited for the opening of my first exhibition in Poland this week, in beloved Wroclaw of all places, which happens to be one of the locations I grew up in and around. I was raised in the periphery of the city, a small village that continues to be the sacred center of my art practice, exactly eighteen years to the day I left as a clueless, delusional yet fearless eighteen-year-old child.Thank you @krupa_art_foundation ✨✨✨

❖ All the Diamonds to polsko-rumuńska wystawa zbiorowa ukazująca różne sposoby patrzenia na wieś, z uwzględnieniem kulturowych, społecznych i artystycznych relacji łączących oba regiony ❖

Ten oparty na współpracy projekt podejmuje tematykę pozostającą poza głównym nurtem scentralizowanego świata sztuki oraz podkreśla praktyki świadomie realizowane na wsi jako przestrzeni ciągłej pracy, doświadczenia i zbiorowego zaangażowania.

Wystawa opiera się na trzech przenikających się konstelacjach analizujących różne sposoby myślenia i przedstawiania wsi: pierwsza skupia się na wyobrażeniach i symbolicznych formach, druga eksploruje tęsknotę i dystans wobec wsi, trzecia wysuwa na pierwszy plan wieś jako stan trwania i ciągłości.

Zespół kuratorski wystawy tworzą Natalia Barczyńska, Maria Bîrsan, Alexandru Niculescu, Monika Łuszpak-Skiba. Na wernisaż zapraszamy 15 maja (już wkrótce więcej informacji o bezpłatnych wejściówkach), a sama wystawa dostępna będzie u nas do 5 lipca.

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All the Diamonds
Wernisaż: 15.05
Wystawa czynna: 16.05–5.07

⌔ Zespół kuratorski: @nbarczynska , Maria Bîrsan @brssi , @alexandru._niculescu @monikaluszpak_skiba
⌔ Organizatorzy: @krupa_art_foundation @sandwich.gallery
⌔ Partnerzy: @rumunski_instytut_kultury @muzeulnationaldearta
⌔ identyfikacja wizualna @magdalena_jaskulka taken in Krupa Art Foundation by @karolinalebek

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Upset The Rhythm is emerging from its live-music winter hibernation…

Next Tuesday (Jan 20th) we will be upping sticks to Theatreship for the first time. Theatreship is a historic cargo boat moored in Canary Wharf, that just happens to be an amazing, intimate arts venue!

We have the dazzling Susannah Stark & Band headlining this show, with Karolina Lebek and Ecka Mordecai turning in spirited performances alongside. If you enjoy evocative soundscapes, ritualistic poetry and entwined folk textures, we’ve got you covered - this promises to be a very special genre-fluid evening aboard a floating vessel.We even have Katie Shannon (NTS) DJ-ing through the night too, sublime times.

We hope you can join us.
See you there!
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@earlywater88 @karolinalebek @ecka_mordecai @katieshannon23 @night_school @apostolos_kasparis @theatreship taken in Theatreship by @karolinalebek

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9 months ago

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Artist focus @karolinalebek who will play on Sunday 26th Oct.
At @thehorsehospital a fundraising event for @resonancefm and @resonanceextra

Karolina Lebek is an artist and musician based between London and Wroclaw, working across a range of media including video, photography, installation and live performance. Her practice, exploring interests in consciousness, ecology and mental health, gives new form to the exploration of the sacred, the ritual and the body, in context of geological time. Concerned with generational trauma, histories of migration and displacement, and the intersections between human artefacts, psychology, and ancestral knowledge, her work embraces a poetry of decay and transformation that rearranges history to shed new light on the present. taken in The Horse Hospital by @karolinalebek

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a year ago

Thank you, Voelkel Foundation 💧💨

We extend our thanks to the @fundacja_voelkel for their support during Memories of Water, Memories of Air in Venice.

Thank you for being with us — for sharing our values, our vision, and these powerful days of art, dance, sound, and encounters. Your partnership was an essential part of what made this project possible.

1. Monika Błaszczak, Clay, part of: „Memories of Water, Memories of Air”, organised by Ditto Foundation & Arts Territory, Venice 2025, photo: Clelia Cadamuro

2. Karolina Łebek, sanare, part of: „Memories of Water, Memories of Air”, organised by Ditto Foundation & Arts Territory, Venice 2025, photo: Clelia Cadamuro

3. felicita, kupalnocka/gry wodne, part of: „Memories of Water, Memories of Air”, organised by Ditto Foundation & Arts Territory, Venice 2025, photo: Clelia Cadamuro

4. Gaetano di Gregorio, Water Breaks, Water Builds, part of: „Memories of Water, Memories of Air”, organised by Ditto Foundation & Arts Territory, Venice 2025, photo: Clelia Cadamuro

Organised by: @fundacja_ditto , @artsterritory

Supported by: Palazzo Contarini Polignac, @fundacja_voelkel , @istituto_polacco_di_roma

This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.

Cultural event of the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU

Photos: @cleliacadamuro
#MemoriesOfWaterMemoriesOfAir #ArtsTerritory #VoelkelFoundation #ThankYou #Venice #ContemporaryArt #SupportTheArts taken in Palazzo Contarini Polignac by @karolinalebek

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On the first day of Memories of Water, Memories of Air, we premiered Karolina Łebek’s new film installation sanare.
The 4K moving image work invites viewers into a meditative loop of memory, loss, and healing — rooted in personal and collective histories of displacement.

Set against the backdrop of Krynica Zdrój and Łemko heritage, sanare reflects on ancestral trauma and the quiet rituals of reconnection, both spiritual and physical. A poetic journey back to a silenced language, a lost home, and the healing power of water.

Thank you, @karolinalebek , for sharing this intimate and powerful work with us.

Photo 1: @cleliacadamuro

Organised by: @fundacja_ditto , @artsterritory

Supported by: Palazzo Contarini Polignac, @fundacja_voelkel , @istituto_polacco_di_roma

This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.

Cultural event of the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU

#memoriesofwatermemoriesofair #artsterritory #karolinalebek #video #contemporaryart #venice2025 #eventiavenezia #water #lemko #lemkowyna #ritual taken in Palazzo Contarini Polignac by @karolinalebek

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On the first night of Memories of Water, Memories of Air, step into Karolina Łebek’s deeply moving sanare — a powerful 4K video installation premiering in Venice.

Rooted in personal memory and collective history, sanare revisits a formative journey undertaken by @karolinalebek in 1996 to Krynica Zdrój — formerly a Łemko village called Krzenycze — in the Low Beskids of the Carpathian Mountains. Krynica (from Polish: source), celebrated for its mineral water springs, fresh air and mountain views, is now the site of one of the largest Polish sanatoria, a type of medical spa providing space for communal convalescence and rest. The core and the foundation of healing treatments and rituals available in Krynica Zdrój remains the act of drinking mineral waters from five active springs.

Thus, sanare, through ‘meeting by the waters’ and participating in the healing rituals of sanatoria, is an observation and an invitation to collective healing. Partly a poetic interpretation of the universal meaning of the source, partly a meditation on trauma, identity and our connection to the natural world beyond the physical, this work is a gentle call for a return towards the sacred knowledge of nature, a shared capacity for repair, reconnection, and belonging.

Video commissioned by Arts Territory

Organised by: @fundacja_ditto , @artsterritory

Supported by: Palazzo Contarini Polignac, @fundacja_voelkel , @istituto_polacco_di_roma

This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.

Cultural event of the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU

#memoriesofwatermemoriesofair #artsterritory #karolinalebek #spa #springwater #video #eventiavenezia #lemko #łemkowyna taken in Palazzo Contarini Polignac by @karolinalebek

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Official Announcement

MEMORIES OF WATER, MEMORIES OF AIR
🗓 27–28 June 2025, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (each day)
📍 Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 874 Dorsoduro, Venice

Memories of Water, Memories of Air brings together some of the most pioneering artists to explore ephemerality as a vessel for ancestral memory, cultural healing, corporeal experience, and ecological awareness, shaped by the shifting elements of water and air. Rooted in Eastern European folk traditions and shaped by voices often excluded from mainstream climate discourse, this series asks: Can ephemeral arts — movement, sound, ritual — become spaces of remembrance?

Join us for a two-day programme of performances, food, music, and screenings in which artists employ ephemeral artistic practices to prompt reflection on cultural erasure, climate crisis, displacement, and resilience.

FEATURING:
🔹Monika Błaszczak @monikablaszczak
🔹felicita @felicita_felicita
🔹Karolina Łebek @karolinalebek
🔹Paweł Sakowicz @pawelsakowicz
🔹Konrad Smoleński @konrad_smolenski
🔹Rafał Zajko @rafal_zajko & Zoee @zoee_music_

And:
🔸Fugaz Collective @fugazcollettivo
🔸Gaetano di Gregorio @gaedigregorio

Curated by Kasia Sobucka @kasia_sobucka
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Join us in Venice for a programme of ephemeral gestures — to reflect, to remember, and to reconnect.

Organized by @fundacja_ditto @artsterritory
Supported by @fundacja_voelkel , Instituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Contarini Polignac

Cultural event of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU

This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.

#memoriesofwatermemoriesofair #venice2025 #performanceart #environmentalart #ephemeralpractices #climatecrisis #artsterritory #biennale2025 #palazzocontarinipolignac #eventiavenezia #arteavenezia taken in Palazzo Contarini Polignac by @karolinalebek

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Repost from @krupa_gallery 💫

On the final day of “The Ark” group exhibition, Krupa London will present four performances exploring sound, voice, and movement, hosted by one of participating artist Natalia Januła. Engaging with bodies, space, and sonic landscapes, the invited performers - Agnieszka Szczotka, Hollie Miller & Craig Scott, Aprigoat and David, Karolina Łebek - will change the exhibition space by intertwining organic transformations with interconnected systems such as digital soundscapes and language.

8 March 2025 4-6 PM

hosted by @janula._

image used in the visual: Natalia Januła, “I Think We Have Met Before”, 2025, mixed media installation, detail by @karolinalebek

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Is the artist ever present, invisible or absent in the work of art? Slavic Anew Collective is pleased to present ‘Shall Leave No Trace’, a multimedia group exhibition featuring works by Livvy Fink, Hesi Glowacki, Alexei Izmaylov, Alana Jelinek, Karolina Lebek, Maja ∀. Ngom, Patricia Petersen, Olha Pryymak, Simona Racheva and Niko Raic.

Curated by Hesi Glowacki in collaboration with Karolina Łebek this exhibition delves into the rich artistic, intellectual, and existential landscape crossed by only a few artists, alumni and educators of the Royal College of Art, correlated by Slavic background.
Held within the Hangar Space on the Battersea Campus, ‘Shall Leave No Trace’ explores the complexity of memory and its contribution towards visibility, relevance, and/or absence of artists’ identity in the work of art.

‘Shall Leave No Trace’ outlines the relationship between the body and consciousness, the tangible and immaterial through various mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation and glass, interweaving with Slavic mythology, art and culture.

Slavic Anew is a collaborative initiative of artists connected by Slavic roots, currently based in the UK. Our mission focuses on nurturing and promoting a supportive community, celebrating the rich cultural heritage and artistic diversity of our members.

Private View on Monday 17th of March, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Continues: 18-22nd of March, 12-6pm daily.

Book on eventbrite, link in bio.

☕️🎨✨ #SlavicAnew #SlavicArt #ArtWorldTakeover #CreativeConspiracy #art #contemporaryart @livvyfink #livvyfink #hesiglowacki @hesiunderground #ismyloveizmaylov ismyloveizmaylov #alanajelinek @alanajelinek #karolinalebek @karolinalebek #majaangom @maja_a_ngom #patriciapetersen @patriciaisabel #olhapryymak @olhapryymak @simona.racheva #simonaracheva #nikoraic @niko.raic Shall Leave No Trace is a group art exhibition featuring works by only a few artists, alumni, and educators of the Royal College of Art correlated by Slavic background and curated by Hesi Glowacki and Karolina Lebek. taken in Royal College of Art by @karolinalebek

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Repost from @exitglasgow
stravsky & pelè present ‘change in you’ EP launch

Saturday 15th February 2025
8pm till late

An evening of screenings and performances featuring:

‘Seeking for Story’ a film by Ashkan Sepahvand
‘Working Knowledge’ a film by Hannan Jones

Cindy Islam (live)
Lisa Fabian (live)
Shola von Reinhold (live)
Cashlin Nic Coinnich (live)
Han (DJ)
Potik (DJ)
&
stravsky & pelè

Advance tickets available via RA
£10 / £5 (Unwaged/ UC/ Low income) by @karolinalebek

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Some raw clips from my last filmmaking trip to the Carpathian Mountains in Poland, completing a work titled sanare. Oh the irony of attempting to make a film about healing, moments ahead of the covid-19 pandemic. First part of this project was shot in September 2019, with the work in progress edit being shown as part of the @mk_gallery MK Calling exhibition, just before the first lockdown. The gallery invited me to DJ at the opening night that took place on Valentine’s day in 2020 and I remember playing music to an empty room, filled with anxiety. Just days after that we separated for months, retreating into ourselves, embarking on a journey to recovery that took years, and for some is still ongoing. The first stage of research for this project was funded by @artsterritory, as part of illusion of return project.

This work became inseparable from life, with the need to slow down and attend to all other wounded and tender areas while the film itself kept on transforming with me. Oh the irony of trying to finish this film in 2022 during my first trip to Poland since the pandemic began, which took place just after I experienced covid for the first time. I was unable to proceed as normal and from a filmmaker documenting healing through water in mountain sanatoria, I became a patient. Too tired to climb stairs, let alone mountains. The third trip to the source took place this April, just after I recovered from a second covid infection which wasn’t anywhere near as severe, this time hoping that the roles of a patient in recovery and a filmmaker in process will coexist giving space to one another, perhaps this was always the purpose of this work. 💧💧💧 taken in Krynica-Zdrój by @karolinalebek

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