DOM – a summary

The exhibition “DOM” marks the symbolic closure of eight years of activity by the Death of a Man Gallery – a space situated at the intersection of philosophical speculation and radical aesthetic experiment.

The gallery’s name stems from the belief that humanity is nearing a turning point: the arrival of biological and digital immortality. Gene therapies and mind-uploading are no longer pure fiction but imminent possibilities. In a world where death may cease to define us, the value systems – including art – are bound to be reconfigured.

Throughout these years, our curatorial decisions have consistently been shaped by this horizon: art as a field of future tension, post-human sensitivity, and speculative aesthetics.

In “DOM” – a space of uncertain refuge – we bring together artists who have shaped the identity of the gallery: Michał Matejko, Małgorzata Widomska, Paweł Zaręba, Kamil #2, and special guests. Their works are united by a language of pure aesthetics – often ignored or misunderstood within institutional art frameworks – which reveals its rich diversity and uncanny ability to remain relevant across any temporal framework.

This is aesthetics not as commentary, but as experience; not as message, but as relation. Not as surface, but as presence in a time that resists linearity.