It would be difficult to find a literary phrase more fitting for what Kinga Burek has portrayed in her paintings from 2025–2026 than the title of this exhibition, borrowed from an essay by Luce Irigaray.

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On 6 February 2025, Kinga’s mother passed away—a biochemist by profession and, after retiring on disability pension, a social activist. She suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition with which the artist herself also lives. Death severed the profound bond between the two women.

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Kinga Burek’s work is intensely expressive while at the same time deeply discursive, drawing from diverse sources of humanistic and philosophical reflection.

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Curator: Dorota Monkiewicz

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Kinga Burek graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2021 and completed her M.A. in Art History at the Jagiellonian University in 2022. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków.

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BODY TO BODY WITH MOTHER
An exhibition of paintings by Kinga Burek

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Galeria Lotna, Warsaw

22 May – 26 June 2026
Opening reception: 22 May, 7:00 PM​

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