Olga Micińska

As a practicing woodworker Olga Micińska combines practical aspects of craft with fantastical anecdotes, while projecting grounds for cooperation, knowledge-sharing, and handling of the material and non-material resources.

Craft is both a medium and subject of her work: not as a reconstruction of the past or a consoling handwork, but rather as a meaningful way of being in the present while gradually shaping future-oriented propositions for a balanced economy. Craft functions here as a reminder of how to reclaim means of production and reconsider contemporary technologies.

Striving for her sculptures to escape the perimeters of artistic autonomy, Micińska configures them as performative objects materialising certain political fiction, combining speculative narratives with grounded education, and coming into direct relation with the body. She seeks for ways for them to vibrate outside of typical exhibition frameworks.

Drawing on the highly technical character of her work, Micińska expands it into an educational practice by inviting apprentices identifying as women or non-binary to join the process, for them to gain more hard skills and confidence in performing technical work and in result to challenge the gender gap in blue-collar trades.