16 May – 16 August 2026
Curator of the exhibition: Marta Derejczyk
How do political and socio-cultural processes impact on the appearance and representation of women’s work and its effectiveness? What are the changes in the image of women in art and the modes of its presentation? Ala Savashevich analyses the subject of women’s work, its visual and symbolic aspects, and the related representations.
In referring to historical examples and her own experiences of growing up under the gospel of ‘hard work’, the artist conducts dialogue with her own artistic work and with museum exhibits showing women at work.
Ala Savashevich, Wrocław-based artist of Belarus origin (b. 1989) creates sculptures, installations and videos. She studied sculpture at the Belarus State Academy of Arts in Mińsk and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and is now a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. The artist addresses the themes of collective memory and the formation of identity in societies affected by the experience of authoritarian and patriarchal rule. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms of socialisation for the role of a woman within the family and educational structures, and by the gender-based division of labour. Working through the history of exploitation and violence, Savashevich also visualises perspectives of regaining empowerment, freedom and solidarity