It would seem that Maria Loboda and Władysław Hasior are separated by everything, and yet they share a desire to tell stories—an impulse that becomes central to the exhibition Style. As Loboda explains, “I try to build each exhibition around a small story – a haiku – thanks to which all the works ‘belong together’, they all interact with each other.” In Style, she turns her attention to the space in which the artist from Zakopane worked. The high, south-facing, glass-fronted rooms, once intended for rest and the treatment of lung diseases, proved to be an ideal setting for creative experimentation. For Loboda, they became an opportunity to imagine and narrate her dream studio.
Within her drawings, the area currently used for temporary exhibitions is arranged in ways that evoke different eras and aesthetic languages, allowing her to move fluidly through familiar cultural codes. Through this, she reflects on what a studio means to its creator—also in a metaphysical sense. Her transparent model, A studio undergoing self-analysis, invites other artists to envision their own projects and simultaneously echoes one of Hasior’s most daring ideas: the glass monument. Loboda emphasizes that for her—a nomadic artist—“the idea of the studio has always been something very changeable, fragile and intimate.” In Style, the studio becomes not only a place that houses works, but a vessel for emotions, ideas, and the shifting conditions of artistic life.
