spalarnia is overcome with subterranean longing in Rozkosz
Fact Magazine, 2022
Płomień, nie popiół
Czas Kultury, 2022
Performans i procesja
Dwutygodnik, 2022
WOJCIECH KOSMA, an affective abundance of music with a mouthful of Polish poems
CLOT Magazine, 2022
Nie wiesz co zrobić z emocjami? Wojciech Kosma mówi: spal je.
Poptown, 2022
Otworzyło się niebo i skończył się gender – poezja
Szajn Magazine, 2022
'Listening with Sung' by Wojciech Kosma
Chisenhale Gallery, 2022
Kathy Noble on Wojciech Kosma
Artforum, 2015
LEAP by Wojciech Kosma
Frieze, 2013
Polish performance artist Wojciech Kosma has recently dedicated himself to musical performance under the moniker spalarnia. Spalarnia explores love, pleasure, intimacy and gender through poetic avant-pop tracks that draw from traditional Polish folk and current dance music vocabulary. Spalarnia aims to establish new, deeply personal mythologies rooted in Polish culture and tradition, while promoting a queer, secular and anti-nationalist sentiment.
Kosma's performance practice more broadly entails closely collaborative work that builds on the legacy of 20th Century avant-garde performance, improvisational theatre and Post Modern dance to explore subjectivity and affect. With minimal structure and staging, these performances collapsed the private space of intimacy into the public realm, thus foregrounding the social and political implications of care and love as the most essential and complicated of human impulses.
Kosma has performed widely including at Cell Project Space (2023), Camden Arts Centre (2022), Chisenhale Gallery (2020), Volksbühne Berlin (2017), and the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2016). His debut album USTA was released in May 2022. His first collaborative exhibition at Molitor, Bojący wszystkich krajów łączmy się was in March 2023. His work was presented as part of Galerie Molitor's contribution to the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in September 2023.
