The University of Gdańsk Museum invites you to a guided tour of the exhibition ‘Whispers of My Home’, which will be led by its author, Zuzanna Kocińska, this Saturday. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the contexts, inspirations and stories behind the photographs and graphics on display. The event starts at 2 p.m.
The exhibition ‘Whispers of My Home’ presents a series of graphics and photographs by Zuzanna Kocińska, which is an intimate story about identity composed of places, memories and experiences. In her graphics and photographs, the artist explores the concept of home, both in its physical and emotional aspects. It is a meeting of two spaces: her family home in Gdańsk and her home in Toruń, where the artist has found her own rhythm of life and work.
The idea behind the exhibition is accompanied by the concept of unreliable narration, presented by Wayne C. Booth, an American literary scholar, in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction. This concept presents a narrator whose assessment of reality may raise doubts in the audience. The reality presented by this narrator does not necessarily coincide with the Truth. In her works, Zuzanna Kocińska explores the essence of being ‘in between’ – between experience and memory – the real one and the one processed through the filter of subjectivity. This state of suspension, creating tension, inspires and allows the experience to be transformed into a work of art.
‘Whispers of My Home’ is a return for the artist to remembered emotions and spaces which, worn down by the passage of time, reveal new meanings and interpretations.
Link to the event - Facebook
Date: 13 December 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: UG Museum, ul. Bielańska 5
Free admission!
About the artist
Zuzanna Kocińska was born in Gdańsk in 1999. She is a fifth-year student of Graphic Arts, specialising in workshop techniques, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, in the lithography studio. She is a graduate of English Philology at the University of Gdańsk. She organises graphic arts workshops and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In addition to lithography, she also works with linocut and photography. Her work focuses on people and their memories, blurring the line between reality and less reliable memory.
Most important achievements:
Testaments, Gallery 9.39, Toruń, 2025 - solo exhibition
4th International Lithography Triennial LITHO-Kielce 2024/2025, BWA Kielce, 2025 - participation in the post-competition exhibition
Intercontinental Bienal 2024, Argentina, 2024 - finalist in the ‘Illustration’ category, participation in the post-competition exhibition
13th International Miniature Biennial in Częstochowa 2024, ‘Gaude Mater’ Culture Promotion Centre - participation in the post-competition exhibition