27 June – 30 September 2026 | ul. Jaskółcza 1
Curators: Aneta Lehmann, Izabela Wieczorek
Space project Bud Cud (Mateusz Adamczyk and Agata Woźniczka)
In 1968, Palle Nielsen transformed the Moderna Museet in Stockholm into a playground. This act of dedicating the museum’s space to children was a gesture that undermined three foundations of the institution: the neutrality of the white cube, control over how it is received, and the belief that there is only one correct form of participation. The new exhibition at GCSW takes up this gesture and brings it to Gdańsk, referencing the experience of living in Falowiec – Poland's longest residential building, inhabited by several thousand people. The central element of the exhibition is the Climber, a spatial structure inspired by Falowiec, designed as a place for shared use, which can be navigated and explored in various ways. It is accompanied by other spatial forms such as the Frontage and Freedom Square, which, like the exhibition space itself, do not dictate a single way of use or a single path of movement. In „Models of Community,” a child is not treated as a future recipient of the institution, to be prepared for participation, but as a fully-fledged user acting on their own terms. This assumption goes beyond programmes for the youngest and becomes a question about the functioning of the institution as such. What happens to a space when it stops organising reception and starts enabling action? And is the art institution ready for this?
