26/02/2026
opening of the Project Room 2025/2026 exhibition
(No) Escape Room
Apolonia Bokszycka
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Due to circumstances beyond the institution’s control, the opening of Apolonia Bokszycka’s exhibition (No) Escape Room, originally scheduled for 19 February, and presented as part of the Project Room 2025/2026 series, will take place on a new date — one week later, on 26 February 2026 at 19:00.
We will provide any further updates as they become available.
- Apolonia Bokszycka's exhibition uses the escape room format to analyze the mechanisms governing the contemporary flow of information and attention. It focuses on phenomena such as the attention economy, gamification (the application of game-like mechanisms to other areas of life), and fake agency, analyzing the ways in which media and platform systems organize audience perception, response, and engagement.
- The project also addresses the phenomenon of media overheating (the accelerated and intensified flow of information), and compassion fatigue resulting from excessive exposure to images of violence, disasters, and crises. These phenomena are not so much the subject of the story, but rather part of the experience itself.
- The exhibition is designed as a sequential, looping spatial structure and does not lead to a clear-cut solution or "exit." The Project Room visitor's movement follows a logic familiar from digital information flows: fragmented, escalating, and based on constant updating.
- A key element of the project is the treatment of media experience as something that engages bodies, and a conscious shift in emphasis from the dominance of sight to touch and smell. In this way, the exhibition problematizes the relationship between the body and technology, presenting media not as neutral tools of vision, but as systems that reorganize our senses and our way of being in space.
- (No) Escape Room does not propose a nostalgic critique of technology or simple escape strategies. Instead, it locates the viewer within the system, enabling observation of the mechanisms regulating attention and agency in the context of contemporary information crises.
- Apolonia Bokszycka
- (born 1996 in Tricity) is currently studying Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is interested in the intertwining of technology and systems of power and their impact on contemporary identity. Her practice is distinguished by a scientific background in the study of cognitive processes and artificial intelligence – she graduated in cognitive science from the University of Warsaw (2020). In 2016, she also studied mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In her expanded practice, she utilizes installation, sound, and interactive experiences. She uses speculative methods to explore new meanings and structures. She is the creator of the KIKIMORA project, which focuses on the deconstruction of forms and meanings – technological, aesthetic, and social – within electronic club culture. She is a DJ and music producer. Her work has been featured at festivals such as Krakow Art Week KRAKERS (2025), the Pawilon municipal gallery in Poznań (2024), and 20ft Radio in Kiev.
- Curator: Marta Grytczuk
