We invite you to join us in creating a sculpture from gingerbread elements, baked according to a recipe that is over a century old, belonging to the artist’s great-grandmother, Hildegarda, who received it from a nun working in a tuberculosis hospital. The recipe dates back to the days when ammonia was obtained from the Chemical Works in Chorzów and honey was artificial.
The participants will build a spatial form from pieces of gingerbread, joined together with icing and their combined efforts. The workshop will conclude with everyone enjoying the gingerbread sculpture together, accompanied by hot chocolate.
Duration: around 2.5 hours
Presented by: Karolina Konopka
Registration required: karolinarybka@galeriabwa.bydgoszcz.pl
Maximum 10 participants
Karolina Konopka – graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (2020). Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2019). She works in the fields of: video, painting, sculpture and installation. She is interested in confectionery, delicatessen art, the issue of mass culture, consumerism, discarded food as well as that on the plate, rites, traditions and rituals rooted in Polish culture. She searches the Internet, used goods shops, and dumpsters, and catalogues the things she finds there. Author of individual exhibitions, among them. Do ostatniej łzy (To the Last Tear, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, 2025), Gyburstag (CSW Kronika, Bytom, 2022), Czekoladopodobne i tłusta masa (Chocolate-like and Fatty Mass, Eskaem, Gdańsk, 2022), Tortologia (Cake-o-logy, BWA Katowice, 2020), Niższy biszkopt (Lower Sponge Cake, Dobro Gallery, Olsztyn, 2020). Participant of group exhibitions, festivals and projects, such as Opowiem wam o sobie/o nas (I Will Tell You About Myself/Ourselves, National Museum in Gdańsk, 2025), Jedzenie w sztuce (Food in Art, MOCAK, Kraków, 2024), Refugees Welcome (MSN, Warszawa, 2023), Niepokój przychodzi o zmierzchu (Anxiety Comes at Dusk, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Warszawa, 2022).
Workshops accompanying the exhibition by Karolina Konopka, Alicja Kozłowska and Natalia LL “Apetyty” (Appetites).
05.12.2025, 4pm
20 Gdańska St.