Øleg&Kaśka

Øleg&Kaśka is a collective superorganism founded in the summer of 2018. We graduated from The University of The Arts in Poznań (Poland) in 2020 (MFA). Our artistic practice is mainly about creating multi-layered installations in which we place the viewers. We work with different mediums like painting, sculpture, video or fragrance to create immerse environments in wich viewers can attend. Our practice is rooted in the dilemmas of the Z generation, contain the responsibility to deal with world crises.

The language we use is a hybrid of eastern european mythologies, legends or alchemy mixed with a pop culture, with wich we grew up. It is our way to talk about escapism, fatalism and hope, but also about condition of the world societies and environment in general.

We try to deal with classic understanding of the art and the figure of the artist as an individual, by creating the figure of the quasi artist, androgynous Øleg&Kaśka. We have exhibited our works in many institutions and galleries in Poland and abroad like Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL), MoMA, Warsaw (PL), Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest (RO), :SKALA Gallery, Poznan (PL), Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk (PL), Belinskej Model, Prague (CZ), Spread Museum, Entrevaux (FR), Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf (DE), PLATFORM Munich, (DE), Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel (CH), Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles (USA), and others.

Selected solo and duo exhibitions

2025

(Upcoming in November), curated by Eva Slaba, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Ghosts of the Labirynth, curated by Michal Stolarik, Sopa Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia

2023

Figuring Desire, Reshaping Monstrosity, curated by Cristina Vasilescu, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest,

Romania2022

Frightened by The Red Moon, curated by Šárka Koudelová, PRÁM Studio, Prague, Czechia

Everything i Knew Has Become Yesterday’s Dream, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021

The Sleep of Reason, Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czechia

The Flutter of the Wings in the Treetops, in duo with Zofia Pałucha, curated by Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak,

Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland

Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises- Chapter 6, with Lea Tissot-Laura & Anna Sougy, curated by Edita

Štrajtová & Linda Vondrová, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, Czechia

From Among the Grasses, off-site exhibition, Yellow Orchard

2020

Ashes to Ashes, :SKALA Gallery, Poznan, Poland

Come out and play, in duo with Jan Możdżyński, curated by Adrian Chorebala, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice,

Poland

2019

Z FILES, offsite exhibition at an undetermined time & location

Is it too late now to say sorry? Hotel Polonez, Poznan, Poland

Group exhibitions

2024

Picnic at Hanging Rock: Chapter II, Sargent's Daughters, Los Angeles, USA

Skin of the Shapeshifter, curated by Cristina Vasilescu, Pavilion ISHO, Timisoara, Romania

Running out of History, curated by Jakub Kosecki, MOS Gorzow, Poland

The Sharp Smell of Flowers– exhibition of selected works from the KAF collection, curated by Natalia

Barczyńska, Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland

2023Gnomes with Saxophones, curated by Jen Kratochvil and Tjasa Pogacar, in frames of SUMO, Prague Art

Week, Prague, Czechia

Fever Dream, curated by ETC Magazine, GMK Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2022

Shapes of Shelter, curated by Tatjana Schaefer and Lisa Stoiber, PLATFORM Munich, Germany

The Discomfort of Evening, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,

Poland

Sugar and Salt, curated by Marcelina Grześkiewicz and Franiu Smoręda, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Refugees Welcome, curated by Magda Lipska, MoMa, Warsaw, Poland

2021

Les Danses Nocturnes, curated by east contemporary, Entrevaux, France

In these days of tumult, heat and dazzle I retreat in my mind, curated by Michalina Sablik and Kamil

Pierwszy, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises- Chapter 5, curated by Edita Štrajtová & Linda Vondrová, Jedna

Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, Czechia

Forward Tarot, curated by Ewa Mrozikiewicz and Maria Ancukiewicz, FWD:, Poznan, Poland

ExFrut- Video Art from Poland, curated by Kunszt Grupa, Leipzig, Germany

2020

Warsaw under Construction 12- Something in Common, curated by Tomasz Fudala and Natalia Sielewicz,

MoMA, Warsaw, Poland

Pandemic consequences: dreams, curated by Kamil Pierwszy, Serce Człowiek Gallery, Warsaw Gallery

Weekend 2020

Outdoor Campaign, Artists on Zachęta’s Billboards, Zachęta National Gallery of Arts, Warsaw, Poland

SURVIVAL 18. Art Review, The City Pumping Station, Wrocław, Poland

A Dream Within a Dream, offsite exhibition curated by DZIDY DUO, Warsaw, Poland

That Summer vol.II, CK ZAMEK, Poznan, PolandArt now in #quarantine, instagram group show, SPACE NOUVELLE

2019

Valentine’s Rendez-Vous vol.2, as an artist and curator, Minus1.artspace, Katowice, Poland

Poland of Our Dreams, Aleje Ujazdowskie 8, Warsaw, Poland

We Are Enough, Already, durning Museum Night, Former Meet Factory, Poznan, Poland

SURVIVAL 17. Art Review, Under Pressure, Aleja Wiśniowa 36, Wrocław, Poland

Ewa Partum. My Gallery is an idea, exhibition after Open Call Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art, Galeria

Studio, Warsaw, Poland

2018

Interes, together with Potencja Gallery and other guests, during Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2018, Warsaw,

Poland

Art Fairs

Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA, 2024 (SOLO)

Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2024 (SOLO)

SAT, Bucharest, Romania, 2024

Collections

Havrlant Art Collection

Julie Hongji Seok and Kyungha Song

KAF collection

Residences

PRÁM Studio, Prague, Czechia, (08-09.2022)

AiR 2021, Petrohradská kolektiv, Prague, Czechia (07-08.2021)

Self-House Residency, residency program for artist and curators in self-isolation (03.2020)

Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czechia, (11-12.2020)Education

University of the Arts Poznan, Poland, graduate of the Intermedia faculty (led by Daniel Koniusz) and

Painting faculty (Dominik Lejman studio), MFA 2020

University of West Attica, Athens, Greece, 2019

Scholarship for the best students, awarded by the Head of the University of Arts in Poznań (annual), Poznań,

2018-19 and 2019-20