EXHIBITION: KAMIL KUCHARZEWSKI.“DUDE, WHY DO I NEED CANDY IN MY LIFE?”

OPENING: 15/05/2025, 18.00 – 20.00

Curated by: Eleonora Bojanowska and Katie Zazenski

Opening hours:

Every Wednesday: 18:00-20:00
Every Friday: 16:00-20:00
or by appointment

The question marking the title of this exhibition, “Dude, why do I need candy in my life?”, simultaneously cynical and profound, calls attention to a world where violence, both personal and systemic, has become an unbroken, choreographed cycle. Kucharzewski’s work reflects on the ways in which street culture – symbolized in part by the ubiquitous presence of graffiti – functions as a performance space. For his exhibition in Stroboskop, the garage – a potent symbol of the interstitial spaces where the boundary between public and private, violence and tenderness, is blurred – exists also at the threshold of transit and stasis, where ideas of power and normativity are played out all the time. Here, the garage – often considered a non-site – is an intimate space where rituals of masculinity are enacted, performed, and reified. But it is also here where the rules are re-written, where transgressions occur, and the violence that is enacted upon bodies, both self-inflicted and otherwise, becomes re-interpreted into a language of ethics and morality.

In addition to being the first exhibition at Stroboskop of the season, it also marks the anniversary of the art space’s 9th season! Come celebrate with us!