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 presented her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, at the Asama International Photo Festival, Japan (2025), Oslo Negativ (2024), Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna (2023), Foam Amsterdam (2021), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2022), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2022), Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Oslo (2022), and Beijing 1+1 Art Centre (2017), among others. She is a two-time recipient of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship and has received numerous awards and nominations, including an Images Vevey Book Award 2025–26 Honorable Mention, a nomination for the EMoP Arendt Award 2023, participation in the project reGeneration 4: The Challenges of Photography and Its Museum for Tomorrow at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2020), a special mention in Plat(t)form 2020, Fotomuseum Winterthur, the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2022, ING Unseen Talent Award 2019, Amsterdam, TIFF Open at the TIFF Festival 2018, Wrocław, and ShowOFF at Krakow Photomonth 2017.

Her work has appeared in such publications as the British Journal of Photography, Causette, Das Magazin, Foam Magazine, The Guardian, Internazionale, King Kong Magazine, Lampoon Magazine, L’Uomo Vogue, Ordinary Magazine, Super Paper, and Vice.

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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