Alicja Bielawska and Katarzyna Słoboda

Join us for a special CreativeMornings conversation between artist Alicja Bielawska and curator Katarzyna Słoboda within the exhibition “A Place for Folding and Unfolding Time” at the Polish Institut Düsseldorf on November 14th. Together, they will explore how time, memory, and material intertwine in Bielawska’s installations — inviting us to experience rhythm, stillness, and presence in new ways. The exhibition reveals time as a tangible, flexible substance that can be folded, stretched, and woven into space. Through undulating sculptural forms and drawings, Bielawska creates a delicate balance between the material and the ephemeral, between motion and pause.

Alicja Bielawska – sculptor, works with drawings, installations, sculptures and writes poetry. Her work focuses on the material sphere of everyday life and the relationships between objects, interiors and memories, touching on the relativity of human perception and the role of memory. Her art incorporates elements of choreography and performance. She is a graduate in Art History (University of Warsaw) and Fine Arts (Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam); she holds PhD in Fine Arts and completed two-stage courses in experimental choreography at Centrum w Ruchu in Warsaw. She collaborates on dance performances with internationally renowned choreographers, creating set designs, costumes, sculptural installations. She represented Poland at the 2021 London Design Biennale, together with CENTRALA, and Aleksandra Kędziorek, with an exhibition The Clothed Home: Tuning In To The Seasonal Imagination. The exhibition was also presented in 2022 at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022, Design Biennale BIO 27 in Ljubljana and at Seul Museum of Craft Art in 2025. She is a lecturer at School of Form – Faculty of Design at SWPS University in Warsaw and at Atelier Foundation in Warsaw.

Katarzyna Słoboda - curator, choreography researcher, dance dramaturge, holds PhD in humanities. Assistant professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin (curatorial studies). In the years 2009-2022 worked at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź where she curated such exhibitions and projects as: Prototypes 06: Alicja Bielawska. At the Intersection of Lines (2022), Prototypes 04: Agata Siniarska. (Land)Slip (2020), You'll, we'll show you what we do. On dance improvisation (with Sonia Nieśpiałowska, 2013), Urban Ecologies (with Aleksandra Jach, 2011-2013) or Frames of Reference. Choreography in the museum (with Mateusz Szymanowka, 2016). She is an editor and author of publications and texts on contemporary art, dance and choreography. Author of the book Embodied Attention in Selected Contemporary Dance Practices (2023).