Kuba StępieńThrobbing scale
exhibition opening days and hours:
Wednesday, Thursday: 4—7 PM
Friday, Saturday: 10—12 PM
Sunday: 1—3 PM
Continuing the reflections captured in the film “All the Stories I Have Ever Told You Were Fiction,” Kuba Stępień goes beyond the frames of recorded scenes, expanding them with a spatial installation at galeria SKALA. The exhibition “Throbbing Scale” presents a personal vision of collective tenderness, revealing its complex and dynamic structure. Everyone and everything is thought about and cared about in the joint experience, like the camera, documenting the ephemeral matter of emotions and interpersonal tensions, is brought to life by the performers and becomes an integral part of the group.
“The film transports viewers into a surreal world of gestures and non-verbal narration created by the performers, who unite in semi-improvised movement. Six interwoven scenes of video performance create a hypnotic collage of fiction, imagination, and desires, constructed from images of bodies, collective movement, and intimacy, challenging the standards of normative communication and binary orders.” — Romuald Demidenko
Freely moving between visual art media and pushing the boundaries of their capabilities to suit their artistic expression, Kuba Stępień weaves fantasies, proposing a new way of thinking about coexistence.
☞ Accompanying Events ✎♪
Exhibition opening: 29.6, 1—8 PM > 🧃 opening toast 6 PM
💿 Afterparty at Farby: 29.6, 9.30 PM
🙂 Finissage: 10.8, Saturday
Kuba Stępień’s exhibition “Throbbing Scale” was selected from among 62 proposals submitted for the first edition of the open call program at the SKALA gallery. The jury, consisting of Paweł Pachciarek and the gallery team, unanimously chose Kuba Stępień’s exhibition project. It stands out for its mature artistic expression, in which the artist moves freely and consciously. Kuba Stępień has developed unique methods of working with theoretical texts and translating them into visual language. The project is also characterized by thorough artistic research into contemporary social phenomena and the formation and consistent development of the aesthetic and substantive autonomy of artistic expression.
Kuba Stępień (they/them) lives and works between Warsaw, Berlin and their hometown – Bełchatów. Their artistic practice is based on realizing interdisciplinary projects with performative character based on embodied auto-theory, using various media, tools and materials. They also work with sound, perform, and release music under the pseudonym
Apkvp. Co-founder of the Kunszt Grupa collective, where they organize and curate artistic events in and out of Poland, focusing on young Polish artists. Graduate of the first edition of the Kem School program run by the queer-feminist collective Kem in Warsaw. They hold a Bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the Academy of Photography in Cracow. Recently they graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw doing a Master Diploma at Miroslaw Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities. They also studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin, in the class of Jimmy Robert. DJ-ing at queer parties and performing in pieces of other artists is also an important part of their artistic practice, which they think of as queer world-making.
The exhibition is co-financed by the Department of Culture of the City of Poznań and the Department of Culture of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, based at the Marshal’s Office of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poznań.
Free admission.