Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Location: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nau 4–5, 08027 Barcelona
Opening: September 9, 2025, 7:00 PM
Exhibition dates: September 9–11, 2025 (by appointment only – email: info@espronceda.net)
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture is pleased to present Stored for a While, a solo exhibition by Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak, a Polish artist currently in residence in Espronceda. The exhibition is part of the program NEB & INCLUSIO, supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
Through paintings on raw canvas, photographs, prints, video, and a site-specific installation, the exhibition explores the passage of time, the relationship between nature and urban transformation, and the emotional connections to the places we inhabit and remember. The project combines new works developed during his residency in Catalonia with material created in previous residencies in Poland, Germany, Iceland, Portugal, and Belgium.
Works in the exhibition
- Redefinition documents the transformation of a childhood landscape, where construction became a symbol of the transition from past to modernity. By photographing these changes throughout the year, the artist sought to preserve fragments of this place from oblivion.
- Connections is a series of paintings on raw canvas functioning as an extended diary of travels through Poland, Belgium, Portugal, Iceland, Germany, and beyond. Each work reflects encounters with cultures, beliefs, and people.
- Sol is a video work that reflects on lost carefree times and the everyday rituals that shape our lives.
- Site-specific spiral installation in sand evokes the cyclical nature of life, the movement of the sun, and harmony with nature. Inspired by Slavic and Catalan traditions as well as Gaudí and Miró, the spiral connects nature, art, and cosmic energy.
- Memory Map visualizes time and events, where island-like shapes and numbers correspond to the days of its creation.
- Borderland features imprints of natural elements that open new areas of memory and imagination.
- Liquid Transfer transforms programming code into abstract visual forms resembling a digital landscape. By blurring the line between reality and the virtual, the work highlights the complexity of technology in our daily lives. It is accompanied by a QR code.
- Prognosis is a series of works that address visions of the near future in the context of pressing social, political, and ecological challenges.
Collectively, these works invite the viewer to reflect on memory, technology, nature, and cultural transformation, bridging personal experience with universal concerns.
About the artist
Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak (Poznań, 1985) is a visual artist and associate professor at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań. His interdisciplinary practice spans painting, video, installation, and site-specific actions, focusing on themes such as identity, the fragility of time, and the fading of cultures. He has exhibited extensively across Europe and internationally, with works included in various public and private collections.
www.filipwierzbicki.pl
The exhibition is part of NEB & Inclusio 2025, an annual artistic research initiative led by ESPRONCEDA and inspired by the New European Bauhaus, focusing on sustainability, social justice, and cultural innovation through interdisciplinary artistic practices.
