The painting ”CGI 5 #aliceinwonderland” from the ”GREENRUM” series explores the boundaries between reality and illusion, depicting a world suspended between a dream and a simulation. It is inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s ”The Shining” and the internet phenomenon The Backrooms—spaces that appear familiar yet evoke unease and disorientation. The work examines themes of simulation, the instability of perception, and the algorithmic reconstruction of reality. By blurring the lines between the physical and the digital, it questions whether the world around us is authentic or merely a generated visual code. It is a reflection on contemporary existence—drifting between the real and the artificial, where nothing is certain, yet everything feels familiar.
BIO:
Dorota Kuźniarska is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and costume creator, working at the intersection of fashion, costume, textiles, painting, performance art, and new media. She explores the relationships between identity and image, reality and fiction, and the body and its digital extension. Her practice is deeply rooted in the concepts of the post-human, the avatar, and skins as layers shaping identity. A lecturer at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań (Poland) and the Fashion School in Poznań. A member of The International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects, and Technicians (OISTAT) and the Polish Filmmakers Association. She has been awarded scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (”Polish Culture Worldwide” 2024). Her projects have been presented in over 40 exhibitions worldwide, including World Costume in Action (Bucharest, Romania), PQ+ (Prague, Czech Republic), Critical Costume (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA), and Panorama Editions (Gwalior, India). In 2025, she was nominated by the Editorial Board of ”Kurier Lubelski” for the ”Personality of the Year 2024” award in the Culture category for ”promoting Polish art internationally”.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 – HOUSEHOLD DJINNIES, curator: M. Bernad, Pokój Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland.
2015 – EBRU - COMPOSITIONS I-VII, curator: L. Waberski, JOK, Janów Lubelski, Poland.
2014 – THE LAST TALE OF 1001 NIGHTS, intermedia concert, Mariacka Gallery, Cultural Center Katowice, Poland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected):
2024 – PANORAMA EDITIONS VOL. 4, the exhibition of works from ”A Street Cart Named Desire”, curator: S. Singh (Patiala), Purana Quila (Old Fort), New Delhi, India.
2024 – (RE)LOCATIONS / MULTIVITAMIN, international exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of Polish-Indian diplomatic relations, curator: W. Modrzejewski, partner: Polish Institute in New Delhi, Arunachal Rang Mahotsav 2024, D.K. Convention Centre, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
2024 – Colors of the Sources, curator: D. Kuźniarska, partner: Polish Institute in New Delhi, Abhimanch Auditorium foyer, National School of Drama, New Delhi, India.
2024 – World Costume in Action (WCiA), international exhibition at the Scenography Biennale in Bucharest, curator: Nic Ularu, National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania.
2024 – INSPACE_EXSPACE, international exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Scenography Department at UAP, Słodownia +1 Gallery, Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland.
2024 – Got Fiction? Whatever the Medium, Costume is the Character, Critical Costume 2024, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Los Angeles, USA, supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Polish Culture Worldwide grant.
2023 – Perspectives 2023, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Gimpo, South Korea.
2023 – 3rd National Drawing Biennale CZAS - RUCH - PRZESTRZEŃ, curators: K. Wendland, A. Wieczorek, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Włocławek, Poland.
2023 – ANNEXUS, exhibition accompanying the 4th National Conference ”Cultural Annexes”, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland.
2022 – 14th International Textile and Fibre Art Biennial ”Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine (online).
2022 – Triennale of Drawing Wrocław ”Don’t Look Back”, curator: P. Sap, Museum of Contemporary Art Wrocław, Poland.