Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas’ first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America—one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas’ project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

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Karolina Wojtas (1996, Poland) is an artist whose work combines photography, installation, and performance to create spaces full of surprise, childlike imagination, and spontaneity. For her, art is an endless game and experiment, where the audience becomes part of the experience.

Wojtas has exhibited her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: FOTO ARESENAL WIEN (2023), Foam Amsterdam (2021), the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2022), Fotogalleri Vasli Souza in Oslo (2022), and the Beijing 1+1 Art Center. She has received multiple awards and nominations, including the KTR 2023 Golden Sword in the Craft category – Photography; a nomination for the EMoP Arendt Award 2023; and reGeneration4: The Challenges of Photography and its Museum for Tomorrow at Musée de lʼÉlysée, among others.

Her work has appeared in publications, including but not limited to The Guardian, Foam Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, Lampoon Magazine, L’uomo Vogue, Superpaper, Tampon – Ordinary Magazine, Causette, and Das Magazin Switzerland.

Wojtas graduated from the Łódź Film School and the Institute of Creative Photography in the Czech Republic. In 2019, she opened her own museum in her home village in Podkarpacie, Poland.

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