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Based in Wrocław, Poland. Graduate of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław at Painting Faculty. Student of Doctoral School in Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Member and co-founder of art collective Wykwitex (2017-2020). She explores themes such as grief, nostalgia, and longing, looking for ways to collectively experience states associated with loss and elements that provide a sense of security. She is interested in utilitarian art strategies that initiate spaces to establish and expand relationships and change social hierarchies. Taking care but letting go: A Conversation with Jagoda Dobecka - an interview in Femme Art Review by Juliane Foronda Selected exhibitions Solo 2023 - I am haunted by the thoughts of what has left, Szewska Gallery, Wrocław, PL 2022 - Pod pniem mieszka pająk, Galeria Arttrakt, Wrocław, PL 2022 - Pajęczyca i Żabka, SOON_, Spectra Art Space, Starak Family Foundation, Warsaw, PL 2021 - All the lights that lead us there are blinding, Łęctwo, Poznań PL 2021 - I am haunted by the thoughts of what has left, Šopa Gallery (Tahanovsky Les), Košice SK 2019 - No Brain No Problem, Galerie Panel, Prague CZ 2018 - Sky Is the Limit, Art Walk, Warsaw (with Wykwitex) PL 2016 - Cofam Suba (Unsubscribed), Stroboskop, Warsaw PL 2016 - LOL, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej MD_S, Wrocław PL 2015 - The End, 5 Malunai, Vilnius (with Iwona Ogrodzka) LT Group 2025 - (upcoming) Fotograf Festival, Prague, CZ 2025 - (upcoming) Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT 2024 - (upcoming) Świątynia Baśni, BWA Wrocław Główny Gallery, PL 2024 - (upcoming) Goyki 3, Sopot, PL 2024 - Giantesses (exhibition design), BWA Wrocław Główny Gallery, PL 2023 - Witches, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw, PL 2023 - SECOND SKIN Encounters, KODE Lysverket, Bergen, NOR 2023 - Antypodręcznik. Jak stworzyć niewidzialne miejsce?, Kronika, Bytom, PL 2023 - Refugees Welcome, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL 2023 - Strange Garden, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw, PL (in frames of Fringe Warszawa) 2023 - Zukunftsvisonen, Forever Together, Gorlitz Kunsthalle, Gorlitz, DE 2023 - Pursue the sandy tail, StArt Foundation, Warsaw, PL 2023 - Second Skin, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL 2023 - Herbalistki, Dom Norymberski, Kraków, PL 2022 - Odnowa/ Renewal, Biennale Zielona Góra 2022, Zielona Góra, PL 2022 - The Discomfort of Evening/Niepokój przychodzi o zmierzchu, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL 2022 - Sugar and Salt, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL 2021 - Apostasia: Rituals of Letting Go, Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ 2021 - From Poland with Love, 01 Gallery, Internet 2021 - Butterfly Effect, Galeria Arttrakt, Wrocław, PL 2020 - Gilead, Stary Klasztor, Wrocław PL 2020 - Cracow Gallery Weekend, Ssss, Galeria Olimpia, Cracow PL 2020 - Limits of Imagination (Institute of Anxiety), Biennale Matter of Art, Prague Municipal Gallery, Prague CZ (with Piotr Blajerski as World Death Camp) CZ 2020 - 13th Geppert Competition, BWA Wrocław Główny, Wrocław PL 2020 - Our Bomb Is A Flower, IP Studio, Wrocław PL 2019 - Who Let The Dogs Out?, Galeria Arttrakt, Wrocław PL 2019 - Wersal Soft, Minus 1 Artspace, Katowice PL 2018 - Dzikość serca i siła mięśnia (Wild at heart and manpower), Klub osiedlowy Odeon, Lublin PL 2018 - Contexts. 8th International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko PL 2018 - Survival 16. Capital, The Wallenberg-Pachaly palace, Wrocław PL 2018 - Matrix, Jagiellonian University, Cracow PL 2017 - How are things?, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin PL 2017 - POMADA 7: Dziedzictwo (Heritage), Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw PL 2017 - Open Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko PL 2017 - WGW 2017: Gerstberger, Pawszak, Rechowicz feat. Wykwitex, BWA Warszawa PL 2017 - Home(sick)/ Nostalgia, The Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin PL 2017 - OUT OF STH, BWA Wrocław, Wrocław PL 2017 - Sztuka na Giełdzie - The Great Jubilee, Bus Station, Lublin PL 2017 - Girlhood, Scena Robocza, Poznań PL 2017 - Nowa Fala (New Wave), Centrum Kultury, Lublin PL 2016 - Młodzi w Muzeum (Young in the Museum), National Museum, Wrocław PL 2016 - Debauch House, Wykwit, Wrocław PL 2016 - Błaźni i Kapłani (Clowns and Priests), Urania, Berlin DE Events: 2024 - A trip to the Olbrzymki - along the rocky trail to Ślęża, collective mountain hike in collaboration with Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew, Ślęża massif, PL 2023 - Sad Songs, grieving karaoke evening, Muzeum w podziemu, Wrocław, PL (in frames of Wrocław Off Gallery Weekend) 2023 - Soft Kiss Club, Kem School & Maria F. Scaroni, open rehersal, TR Warszawa, Warsaw PL 2023 - Gdzie te światy, do których tęsknią kwiaty? Local Memorial Fest, Bródno Sculpture Park, Warsaw, PL 2022 - The Friction of Fiction - speculative, performative meeting, ssesi.space, Brno, CZ Performative Dinners: 2024 - Early Herbs And Ballads - An evening inspired by regional landscape, Dom Pracy Twórczej Muchomorek, Kamionki, PL 2023 - Breaking the shell, Intermedia Studio, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, PL 2022 - Living Water, Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot, PL 2022 - Roots of Community, in collaboration with Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew, ssesi.space, Brno, CZ 2021 - Apostasia Cocktail Bistro, in collaboration with Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew, Tereza Silon, Zeynab Gueye and Stonytellers, Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ Residencies: 2024 - Art Residency in Central Sudetes, Dom Pracy Twórczej Muchomorek, Kamionki, PL 2022 - Goyki 3, Sopot, PL 2022 - ssesi.space, Brno, CZ 2021 - Sustainable Studio Practice, MeetFactory, Prague, CZ 2021- KAIR Residency, Šopa Gallery, Košice, SK 2019 - XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ Scholarships, workshops, symposiums, lectures: 2023 - Comfort is, culinary workshops at the Psychiatric Hospital in Rybnik (in collaboration with Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art), PL 2022 - Interweaving Structures: fabric as material, method, medium; artist-research project in collaboration with the Department of Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen and the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, NOR/PL 2022 - Artistic Scholarship of the President of Wrocław PL 2020 - Artistic Scholarship of the President of Wrocław PL 2020 - Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scolarship PL 2019 - 9th Feminist Seminary, lokal_30, Warsaw, PL 2019 - Sexism in Pop Culture (lecture), XY Gallery, Olomouc CZ 2019 - Wykwitex - Cooperation that enriches (lecture), Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław PL 2017 - Open Triennale Symposium, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko PL 2017 - The Synergy workshops, organized by Towot Squat Foundation, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin PL 2016 - The AIM Symposium, Politics of Collaboration, Barbara, Wrocław PL 2013/2015 - Scholarship for students awarded by the President and Government of the City of Wrocław PL 2013 - Scholarship in frames of Erasmus programme, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valency, Spain ES |