The exhibition will be showing three series of the artist’s works: "Istota rzeczy" ("Matter of Fact"), "Notatnik" ("Notebook") and the series of double portraits "Pola i Nora" ("Pola and Nora"), which she began in 1983 and has continued into the present moment.

Davide Balula (FR), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Igor Krenz (PL), Mahony (AT), David Moises / Chris Janka (AT), Fabian Seiz (AT), Roman Signer (CH), Keith Tyson (UK), Johannes Vogl (DE), Gernot Wieland (AT) Curated by Severin Dünser

During adaptation of an apartment at Marszałkowska Street for the venue of the Czarna Gallery its former bourgeois character was revealed in the now visible stuccos. Dorota Buczkowska’s show goes further to enhance this high atmosphere.

- What made you come to Warsaw for this residency?

- I came to make Polish work.

- What did you expect from the place?

- Nothing. And everything.

The Pod zamkniętymi powiekami / With eyes shut exhibition presents, side by side, works by different artists, but which have a common denominator: each of them is a moment of initiation revisited; each an attempt to come to grips with an event from the past, which has proven a threshold for some, a point of no return, a moment after which nothing was the same.