While Iwona Rozbiewska’s exhibition presents works from various periods of the artist’s career, its title comes from one of her early works from 2012. This work is a transformation of the coffin, turning this ‘closed’ object of inspiration into an open structure, even an architectural object, completely changing its meaning.
One of the artist’s latest works was created in early 2025. It is a video in which we see the creation of a solid, its expansion, transformation and changes, as well as a series of connections and new three-dimensional spaces that are created during these changes.
The resulting architectural grids are subject to constant change. They contain not only clear, geometric forms, but also organic elements imbued with symbolism, which – alongside visual quality – interests the artist.
We are presenting works that are the result of long-term creative processes, as well as those that are the result of spontaneous and intuitive activities in the studio.

Iwona Rozbiewska creates art installations, objects and videos. Her works refer to architecture, culture in the broad sense, and events she encounters around her.
She has presented her works at individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the following venues: Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko; Baltic Gallery of Modern Art in Słupsk; Mazowsze Centre of Modern Art “Elektrownia” in Radom; Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia; European Capital of Culture Rijeka 2020; Kunstverein Ebersberg e. V.; 12 OSTRALE Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dresden; periscope:project:space, Salzburg; Kunstarkaden Munich; THE ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 1.0 during the artweeks in Miami; Kunstpavillon Munich; Pecha Kucha Night in the Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw. Winner of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2022, presented by The Royal Society of Sculptors in London, United Kingdom. Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK. Recipient of scholarships, grants and artistic residencies, among them Deutscher Künstlerbund grant (2022),ZAiKS grant (2022), INITIAL Special Grant from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2021),LfA Förderbank Bayern grant, Munich (2020), Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung grant, Munich (2019-2020, 2022-2023), Artist-in-Residence at SEA Foundation in Tilburg (2018), Polish Culture in the World grant from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023), Erasmus scholarship in Munich (2011-2012), Scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Industrial Design (2009-2010).
Iwona Rozbiewska was born in 1980 in Wyszków, PL. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. She obtained her doctorate at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She currently lives and works in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, Germany, as well as near Warsaw, Poland.

www.iwonarozbiewska.com
curator: Danuta Milewska

11.12.2025 – 28.02.2026
20 Gdańska St.