Forgotten by 🖤 – lekcja trwa
Artists: Vala T. Foltyn, Alice dos Reis, Ala Savashevich, ihsan saad ihsan tahir
Opening: 28.03.2025 at 7pm & performance ritual by Vali T. Foltyn
Exhibition: 29.03 – 10.05.2025
Curators: Jari Malta and Kasia Sobczak
Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10.00-18.00, Saturday: 10.00-14.00
Partner: Collega, Copenhagen
Forgotten by 🖤: lekcja trwa is a reflection on unlearning and forgetting – personal histories, places, techniques. The four participant artists invite visitors into their micro narratives through different crafts and visual languages, a diversity of practices that is guided by a collective thinking around their own experience as artists. The exhibition references formative stories, local legends, rituals handed down through generations, pop culture and objects loaded with memory. Forgotten by 🖤: lekcja trwa is an extension of last year’s show at Collega gallery in Copenhagen (Forgotten by 🖤), and the first chapter of 2025’s visual arts programme at Goyki, addressing work in different socio-cultural aspects.
Public program
29.03 (Saturday) at 11am – guided visit to the show with artists and curators (in Polish and English)
23.04 (Wednesday) at 6pm – artist talk by Alice dos Reis (in English)
09.05 (Friday) at 6pm – talk by Post Brothers (in Polish and English)
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Vala T. Foltyn is a performance and installation artist, queer witch, art researcher, and founder of the collective Lamella the house of queer arts in Kraków. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research at Malmö Art Academy in 2022. She was a resident at the Art Hub Copenhagen in 2022 and as part of their residency program, she published her first book Szwedzka 8. She exhibited at Tallinn Art Hall and performed at the Parliament of Bodies by Paul Preciado at the Bergen Assembly and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In July 2022 she presented her installation performance in Nuremberg at the Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds.
Alice dos Reis is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. She has exhibited, solo and in group, at the Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art (Porto), Canal Projects (NYC), Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), Gallerie D’Italia (Torino), among others. Her films have been shown at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), and others, as well as in various international film festivals. Recently Alice was a recipient of Fundacion Botin Visual Arts Grants (2022-2023), and previously, the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Young Artists (2020-2021). Alongside her work, Alice is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She also co-runs Pântano Books, an independent poetry press.
Ala Savashevich was born in 1989 in Stolin (Belarus). She graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Minsk, 2010-2014), and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Wroclaw, 2014-2017). In 2021 she took a postgraduate course at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Savashevich works with installation, photography, video, and performance, and has exhibited in, among others, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and Georgia. She currently lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland.
ihsan saad ihsan tahir (1995) currently studies his MFA at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, ihsan produces abstract and figurative works that revolve around notions of class, cultural exchange, displacement and masculinity. The work often examines narratives of migration, modern literature, personal histories and language, how we exchange these themes and how our relation to factuality is formed by those exchanges.
Collega was founded in 2022 by Lotte Løvholm and presents exhibitions developed in collaboration with international artists and curators. Departing from co-curation as practice, each collaboration embraces the methods and interests of the invited partner. In 2024 Lotte Løvholm invited Jari Malta to take the role as Collega’s artistic director. This expansion follows the ethos of Collega, opening paths for new collaborations and broadening the networks of the organisation.