Managing the Unconscious – Kraken Exhibition Interview
The exhibition Kraken at Bałagan Gallery Piotr Kolanko, curator of the exhibition, in conversation with Adrianna Gajdziszewska Kraken. My father was a pharaoh and I had to kill him Venue: Bałagan GalleryDates: December 6, 2025 – January 15, 2026Curator: Piotr Kolanko Artists:Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz (Berlin), performance Visual artists:Joanna Rusinek (Berlin), Filip Kalkowski (Berlin), Pichakorn Chukiew […]
Kraken Vernissage -Artworks Documentation – Gallery Bałagan
“Kraken. My father was a Pharaoh and I had to kill him” December 5, 2025 – January 30, 2026 Bałagan Gallery From December 5, 2025 to January 30, 2026, Bałagan Gallery presented the exhibition “Kraken. My father Was a Pharaoh and I Had to Kill Him” — an event exceptional in many respects. The project not only expanded the gallery’s spatial framework, but also intensified dialogue between international artistic communities and diverse creative media. For the first time, Bałagan Gallery realized a satellite exhibition,which opened one day after the main exhibition launch at Podgórski KIOSK. This gesture symbolically extended beyond traditional institutional boundaries, inviting audiences into a multi-layered experience of art. Artists from around the world were invited to participate, working across performance, video art, installation, sculpture, painting, and traditional media. Their practices focused on dreams, the unconscious, fears, phobias, and premonitions, as well as symbols, fairy tales, and legends. The exhibition sought to capture what emerges within us when rational thinking and a sense of control over the world are suspended. Viewers were confronted with experiences that initially might have seemed wild, untamed, and unsettling, yet over time revealed an inner order. Kraken proved to be a demanding exhibition —one that posed difficult questions about the boundaries of consciousness and perception, about what we recognize in everyday life, and what lies beyond the realm of the familiar and the named. The curatorial text by Piotr Kolanko guided visitors into a world of repressionand returning fear: “Once again you catch that insane gaze — seemingly nothing, yet you seize it in a split second on the street. For a […]