{"id":34573,"date":"2026-06-17T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/66p.pl\/?post_type=wystawa&p=34573"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:39:45","slug":"rumour-has-it-maciek-cholewa","status":"publish","type":"wystawa","link":"https:\/\/66p.pl\/en\/wystawa\/rumour-has-it-maciek-cholewa","title":{"rendered":"Rumour Has It<\/b>
Maciek Cholewa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rumour Has It<\/b><\/br>Maciek Cholewa<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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curator<\/strong>: Joanna Koby\u0142t-Schodowska<\/p>

opening<\/strong>: 16 July (Thursday), 6 p.m.
tour led by the artist and curator<\/strong>: 18 July (Saturday) 2026, 3 p.m
exhibition duration<\/strong>: 16 July \u2013 5 September 2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Maciek Cholewa<\/b>, The Market Square in the Future<\/I>, 2026, found object, scan of an archival postcard from 1914, courtesy of Waldemar Krus<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A postcard from 1914 depicts the Upper Silesian town of Radzionk\u00f3w. At the time of its publication, the town \u2013 then known as Radzionkau and belonging to the German Reich \u2013 was shown as it was imagined a century later. Marktplatz in der Zukunft<\/em>, reads the inscription at the top of the card: it is therefore \u201cthe market square of the future.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The title already contains a paradox. As an industrial town, Radzionk\u00f3w had never had a market square in the classical sense. The postcard thus constructs not only an imagined future, but also an alternative identity for the place: more bourgeois, more prestigious and aspirationally modern.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The futuristic photomontage features a catalogue of civilisational achievements. Above the town, a high-speed railway glides along an elevated viaduct. An electric tram cuts through the streets; a monumental airship hovers over the buildings; beside it appears a hot-air balloon, rather anachronistic from today\u2019s perspective. At the lower edge of the postcard stretches a vast expanse of water. Perhaps it represents a bold urban vision ahead of its time: a recreational lake in the city centre. Or perhaps the opposite: a premonition of catastrophe, a flood linked to anthropogenic climate change.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the 20th century, such postcards were mass-produced and circulated throughout Europe. Both large cities and small towns could commission their own visions of the future. They were simultaneously expressions of a fascination with progress and vehicles for local aspiration. Every place could imagine itself as part of the coming, globalised world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Maciek Cholewa<\/b>, 1:2114<\/i>, 2026, installation detail, steel, FDM print, poppy seeds, 200 \u00d7 130 \u00d7 90 cm, courtesy of Artist<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Radzionk\u00f3w is Maciek Cholewa\u2019s hometown, and the postcard he found has become the starting point for an exhibition that develops his long-standing research into locality, peripherality and their tensions with the global.\u00a0Rumor Has It <\/em>does not propose an alternative vision of tomorrow, nor does it offer another utopia. Cholewa is interested in the moment when the future loses its sharpness and resists unequivocal representation. The indistinct, the dispersed and the incomplete do not function here as deficiencies, but as conditions of the present: a world too complex to be apprehended at a single glance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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When speaking of vision and modernity, Descartes inevitably comes to mind: for him, seeing was not just one of the senses, but a method of cognition and a way of ordering the world. The futuristic postcard operates precisely within this regime: it presents the future as something that can be seen in advance and designed. From this perspective, what matters is not the sharp, \u201cknowledge-aided\u201d eye, but an uncertain, peripheral gaze \u2013 one that relinquishes full control in favour of a multiplicity of possible interpretations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Although peripherality remains one of the central concerns of Cholewa\u2019s practice, it is not treated as a romantic alternative to the centre. The relation between centre and periphery is not based here on a simple opposition, but on a continuous circulation of imaginaries, desires and gestures of appropriation. The province is simultaneously idealised, aestheticised and subordinated to the expectations of the centre.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Maciek Cholewa<\/b>, A Small Conspiracy Against the Centre<\/I>, 2026, HD video, colour, sound, 6\u201930\u2019\u2019, courtesy of Artist<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Let us imagine an order inverse to the one depicted on the postcard. In the near future, it is the great metropolis that becomes fascinated by provincialism, local folklore and small-town aesthetics. Cynically exploiting populist narratives, politicians decide to erect a monumental work: an oversized figure inspired by vernacular garden sculpture. The structure stands in the heart of the city, offering the creative classes aesthetic exoticism and a sense of symbolic proximity to \u201clocality.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shortly after its unveiling, however, the harmonious narrative begins to fracture. What was intended as evidence of openness and reconciliation between centre and periphery reveals conflicts that can no longer be neutralised through aesthetics. Cholewa\u2019s narrative, however, is not a fantasy of provincial revenge; rather, it suggests that the future designed by centres of power need not be a shared or universally accepted future.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Maciek Cholewa\u2019s exhibition does not seek to restore a lost faith in progress or formulate a new vision of what is to come. Instead, it leaves us among images that are only beginning to emerge, already disintegrating or still dreaming of their own form. In this sense, the retrofuturistic postcard from the early 20th century remains a special figure \u2013 not because it failed to predict the future accurately, but because it continues to expose our desire to make both the future and the past visible: to subject them to a discerning gaze, organise them and render as coherent images.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Biographies<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Maciek Cholewa<\/strong> (born 1991 in Siemianowice \u015al\u0105skie) is a visual artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He creates objects, installations, drawings, and photographs. His practice combines artistic, research, and literary activities, creating works embedded in local socio-cultural contexts. He focuses on themes related to the periphery, local identity, and vernacular aesthetics. He draws on his own short narrative forms and the reworking of stories he has heard. He comes from Radzionk\u00f3w, a small town he considers an important source of reference and inspiration. <\/p>

His work has been presented at venues including the Kronika Center for Contemporary Art, the TRAFOstacja Sztuki in Szczecin, the Bielska BWA Gallery, the EL Gallery, the Gda\u0144sk City Gallery, the Widna Gallery, MOCAK, the BWA Katowice Gallery, the Labirynt Gallery, and the Art Gallery. Jan Tarasin, Szara Kamienica Gallery, Szara Gallery, Wozownia Art Gallery, and Piktogram Gallery. Finalist of the following competitions: Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award, Tr\u00f3jka Talents, Przyp\u0142yw. Young Polish Art, and the Grey House Foundation Competition.<\/p>

photo by Momo M\u0142ynarska<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Joanna Koby\u0142t-Schodowska <\/span><\/strong>is an art historian and critic, curator, and researcher. She is a member of the Polish Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and a winner of the Wroc\u0142aw Art Award (2023). She has published in publications such as Obieg, Szumi\u0435, Notes na 6 Ci\u0119\u017cki, and Dwutygodnik. She currently works at BWA Wroc\u0142aw, where she runs the BWA Wroc\u0142aw G\u0142\u00f3wny gallery. In her curatorial practice, she works with historical context; she considers modernity as an era that informs our contemporary existence, as well as the exhibition medium as a tool of knowledge and power, shaping systems of perception and understanding history and our own present.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

photo by Alicja Kielan<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The 66P team and collaboratorse<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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organisation, production, and implementation<\/strong>: Renata Jarodzka, Rafa\u0142 Jarodzki, Anna Krukowska, Mirek \u0141ucko\u015b, Mirek Chudy, Patrycja Ucieklak, \u0141ukasz Ba\u0142aci\u0144ski, Danuta Krzywicka, Teresa Haj\u0142asz-Golonka, Micha\u0142 Czapli\u0144ski, Katarzyna Ma\u0142olepsza, Kamil Olender, Helena Swirtun, Alicja Wojakowska
promotion<\/strong>: Fest Promo
graphic design<\/strong>: Ewa G\u0142owacka
translations<\/strong>: Iuliia Lytsevych, Karol Waniek
media<\/strong> patrons<\/strong>: MINT Magazine, Miej Miejsce, Notes na 6 Tygodni, Radio Wroc\u0142aw, Radio RAM, Radio Wroc\u0142aw Kultura\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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