4 artists
4 diploma presentations selected from the open call
After leaving academic institutions, young artists are confronted with the challenge of finding a suitable space to present their graduation projects to a wider audience. They also often face uncertainty, not only about where to present their work, but also how to navigate the unstructured and often precarious art world. To address their needs, and highlight these concerns, we are pleased to announce that this year KRUPA gallery is showcasing four diploma projects by Zofia Lompe (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), Magdalena Ferdyn (Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice), and Andrzej Stanek and Lidia Tańska (University of the Arts in Poznań).
The exhibition series LAST SUMMER responds to this moment — the in-between time after graduation and before what comes next. Though varied in form and focus, their works resonate with common concerns: memory, identity, ecological grief, social exclusion, and the unease surrounding personal and planetary transformation. LAST SUMMER refers to what is often called „the longest summer” — the liminal moment between student life and adulthood. For these artists, it becomes a metaphor for broader questions: What now? How do we move forward in a world facing crisis, collapse, and redefinition? Their works address the soil and the body, history and repetition, invisible labour, and deeply personal states of loss, confusion, and hope.
Across these works, we see a reckoning with change, both intimate and global. The artists explore memory, repetition, roots, and rupture, questioning what it means to begin anew — as artists, citizens, and bodies in a world on edge. Whether through ritual, speculation, or resistance, they reflect a generation’s attempt to reclaim agency, voice, and a sense of ground in uncertain times.
programme curator: Natalia Barczynska