As a farewell to the show Mineral Immersions, we will hold a bus trip to the Morasko Meteorite nature reserve. Accompanying us on the trip will be the artists Anna Siekierska and Mikołaj Szpaczyński, who participate in the exhibition. As curator Monika Bakke observed, their projects “open up to contact with knowledge other than expert know-how, one stemming from personal experience. They reveal a longing for intimate contact with the matter of both the pre-human and the extraterrestrial world”. Given the above, we hope you will join us for a unique stroll into the woods that harbours ancient histories and at the same time for a journey into your own selves.

We encourage you to bring something to donate to the earth, e.g. a trinket such as a copper coin from your wallet. Among other things, during the walk we will perform a joint thanksgiving ritual for the onset of spring.

(...) Ever since the craters were formed, various creatures have gathered around them. The basins quickly filled up with water. Plant life accelerated and ever new species emerged. Animals began to settle in; they drank water from the craters, cooled off in them on hot days, and watched the shooting stars. No one cared about the irregular lumps scattered around, which slowly, pulled by the force of gravity, disappeared into the ground and yielded their particles to it. When people arrived in this area, they granted the place a special status. The circular depressions in the ground were used as sites for rituals associated with the vernal equinox (...)

Anna Siekierska

Anna Siekierska – sculptor, cyclist, lecturer of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, activist working for the benefit of old forests. Co-author of numerous installations in public space, socially engaged projects, actions sensitising recipients to the lives of other beings. She explores the complex web of relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. She spends a lot of time in various scrublands and swamps and enjoys swimming, hiking and eating tomatoes (during the season).

Mikołaj Szpaczyński – visual artist, graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (2017) and of the Intermedia of the doctoral school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2024). Active in the realm of film, sculpture and actions in space. His work is based on experiencing the landscape through movement and physical exertion and on shar-ing the creative process with nature and geological phenomena. Recipient of honourable mentions in the 2016 Young Wolves competition and the 13th Geppert Competition (2020). Author of solo shows: Earthing at Szara Gallery Katowice (2017), Incessantly at Trafostacja Sztuki Szczecin (2019), Continuation at BWA Katowice (2021), Fairy Tale at BWA Bydgoszcz (2022), and 24 Metres at Galeria Widna Krakow (2024).