Ola Kozioł
About the artist
Ola Kozioł is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and Doctor of Visual Arts affiliated with the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
In her artistic practice, she works with the voice, employing the traditional white singing technique inspired by the vocal traditions of Central and Eastern Europe. Her work explores feminist perspectives, interspecies relationships, and the mechanisms operating within social structures. She creates process-based works that often rely on collaboration, presence, and everyday experience.
She co-creates the musical and performance projects Mutant Goat, Zespół Ludowy Byszewianie, and PRZEPRASZAM+.
Her works have been presented at Performancear o Morir in Mexico, the Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum in China, the 20th Water Tower Art Fest in Bulgaria, and the Konteksty Festival in Poland. Her works are also part of the collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź.
Celebration of an Ordinary Day
Celebration of an Ordinary Day is a site-specific walking performance inviting local communities to pause and experience everyday life from a different perspective. The artist creates temporary circles of water in urban space—ephemeral places that disappear as they dry. Gentle sounds of simple instruments accompany the action, encouraging participants to slow down and share a moment of presence. Inspired by old traditions in which celebrations came to people’s homes, the performance translates these rituals into contemporary gestures of hospitality, attentiveness, and care. Rather than escaping reality, it offers a quiet invitation to rediscover the value of ordinary moments.
Gestures of Non-Resistance
Gestures of Non-Resistance is an installation combining poetry and objects that reflects on the smallest, most fragile acts of care performed in times of global uncertainty. Everyday activities—folding children’s clothes, pouring tea, recording fleeting moments—become quiet expressions of tenderness and resilience. The poems are printed in an extremely small font, making a magnifying glass necessary to read them. This physical act of slowing down transforms reading into an intimate encounter with the text and encourages visitors to reflect on their own capacity for attention, care, and presence.