Duchampess / Zuzanna Belska, Charlotte Bickerstaff, Nina Bow, Tereza Glazova, Weronika Guenther

The title "Duchampess" plays on the name of Marcel Duchamp to foreground an anti-conceptual, or perhaps more-than-conceptual, approach present in the exhibited works. It continues a line of inquiry that we have consistently developed throughout our previous exhibitions. 

Working across painting, fashion and installation, the exhibition brings together artistic practices that engage with glamour, popular culture and the aesthetics of desire. These elements are not treated as superficial motifs or cultural by-products, but as legitimate artistic material capable of producing complex meanings. 

While Duchamp fundamentally redefined what art could be, Duchampess asks a different question: what happens when women are no longer the object of representation, but the framework through which contemporary visual culture is understood? In this sense, the exhibition recalls Duchamp's long friendship with Florine Stettheimer. 

Rather than positioning them as opposites, it points to a moment in modernism when another sensibility – rooted in glamour, ornament and femininity was already present, yet never came to occupy the central position that Duchamp's legacy eventually assumed. 

The exhibition is accompanied by an interview with Mariola Przyjemska, conducted as part of the exhibition. 

Text by Mariola Przyjemska