Kuba Stępień: All the stories I have ever told you were fiction
We warmly invite you to the Medium Gallery for the opening of the exhibition Kuba Stępień: All the stories I have ever told you were fiction, curated by Romuald Demidenko, taking place on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
Where?
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Gallery MEDIUM,
- Hviezdoslavovo Square 18, Bratislava
When?
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Opening: April 16, 2025, 19:00
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Exhibition duration: April 17 – May 25, 2025
Curator:
Romuald Demidenko
Annotation
The exhibition “All the stories I have ever told you were fiction” by Kuba Stępień presents a selection of the artist’s* latest works, intertwining the eponymous video performance and mixed media pieces into a layered collage of non-verbal communication, collective intimacy, and queer dreaming.
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The exhibition is accompanied by Romuald Demidenko’s lecture *Stories of the Other*, part of the *New Interfaces 04* series, taking place on Thursday, April 17 at 18:00.
Kuba Stępień (b. 1997)
is an artist* working between Berlin, Warsaw, and their hometown Bełchatów. Their practice is rooted in a broadly defined process with a strong focus on experimental research, emotional critique, autotheory, and non-binary trans perspectives. They work with video, performance, latex, bodily fluids, and various other media, tools, and materials that may be perceived as irrational or nonsensical. They often engage with performative concepts, exploring their own body and the collective body, creating body-like forms and artworks that move within a multiplicity transcending personal trauma and queer world-building. Kuba Stępień works across media, combining them to explore notions of ambiguity that absorb fictions and fantasies in relation to visual representation and offer an alternative to dreams. Challenging normative forms of communication and binary structures, they explore the potentials of non-normativity, using a subjectively distinctive language that poetizes their works and treats them as visual poems, codes, or representations.
Romuald Demidenko
is a curator of exhibitions and public programs whose work engages with interdisciplinary, collective, environmental, and intersectional theories and practices. Demidenko completed postgraduate curatorial studies at KASK School of Arts & Conservatorium in Ghent and holds an MA in Art History from the University of Wrocław. He currently operates between Warsaw, Słupsk, and Ustka (PL).
Partners:
Polish Institute in Bratislava
This project is financially supported by the Bratislava Self-Governing Region.
