Inner Sun

The exhibition brings together two distinct yet complementary artistic strategies: those of Urszula Broll and Anna Sztwiertnia. What unites them is a shared sensitivity to the excess of stimuli and tensions in contemporary life. Both artists have sought—and continue to seek – means of maintaining balance in a world of constant distraction. The “inner sun” refers to a self-regulating energy, understood as the ability to transform excess into form and overload into rhythm. Our senses are not neutral receivers but active regulators. Perception is not about absorbing everything around us—it is about selection.

Urszula Broll’s mandalas, painted since the late 1960s, were the result of an inner transformation and her engagement with Eastern spiritual teachings, meditative systems, and the practice of tantra. Her painting process was introspective, aimed at exploring the unknown within, restoring balance, and bringing calm. In the secluded setting of Przesieka, in the Karkonosze Mountains, Broll created works grounded in rhythm and geometry. These watercolours did not document the world but reorganised the experience of it—far from the structures of civilisation.

Anna Sztwiertnia creates in the urban environment. Concrete and metal—materials with purely technical associations—are shaped in ways that disrupt their typical utilitarian functions. In her recent works, the vestibular system appears literally as a form. Her sculptures not only echo their physical structure, but also function like it: organising chaos, modulating stimuli, transforming noise into pattern.

"Inner Sun” asks whether it is possible to act amid overload. Both artists propose their models of suspension: one through silence, the other through reorganisation. The inner sun does not need to illuminate the outside world; it simply generates enough clarity to help us navigate and regulate the tensions within ourselves.