Authors of individual colors
SWORDS
Inside Job duo - is Ula Lucińska (born 1992) and Michal Knychaus (born 1987). Ula studied History of Art at Adam Mickiewicz University (2015), she is also a graduate of Intermedia (2021) and Scenography and Fashion Design at the University of Arts in Poznan (2018). Michal graduated in Cultural History at Adam Mickiewicz University (2013) and Intermedia and Graphic Design at the University of Arts in Poznan (2018). As a duo, they participated in Rupert Residency in Vilnius (2021), A-I-R FUTURA in Prague (2020), Terrain-Gurzelen in Biel/Bienne (2018-2019), TestDrive at DriveDrive in Nicosia (2018), and Kulturfabrik Burgdorf (2016). Their work has been shown in dozens of group international and national exhibitions. The most important individual exhibitions are: Breathing in the Shallows at Eastcontemporary in Milan (2021), And the door was kicked open again at Futura in Prague (2021), Not a gift given but a choice made at Pavilion in Poznan (2019), Overly sexy, smart, edgy and dangerous at DriveDrive in Nicosia (2018), Overwrite/Discard/Save Both at Gallery :SKALA in Poznan (2018) and Roses: Sky is the limit. Just keep pressing on at Hot Wheels Projects in Athens (2018). They are winners of the Santander Universidades Prize (2016) and finalists in the international competition Artagon IV in Paris (2018). They also received awards from SZUM and Czas Kultury magazines for their collaborative thesis (2018). In 2021, they are nominated for the Allegro Prize. As Inside Job, they create interdisciplinary artistic projects. They are complex compositions processing futuristic and post-apocalyptic visions. They are interested in the processes by which human identity is created - at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology.
Inside Job prepared all the cards from the Swords group for us. For their design, they collaborated with Sohyun "Soso" Park, a young artist and designer originally from Seoul and based in The Hague, who was responsible for the background compositions. Swords correspond to the element of air, which is reflected in Sohyun's ephemeral prints. On the other hand, Ula and Michał's works often refer to architectural elements, such as traceries or Art Nouveau ornaments, and the metal shapes they cut out correspond to the swords motif. Swords are also associated with coldness, which resounds in the strongly post-humanistic projects of the Inside Job duo. The main inspiration for the card shapes were ancient ritual blades.
WANDS
Øleg&Kaśka - is an artistic duo, formed in 2018. In 2020 they graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan with a degree in intermedia and painting. In 2019 they also studied at the University of West Attica in Athens as part of an inter university exchange. They have shown their work in solo exhibitions - The Sleep of Reason at Berlínskej Model in Prague (2021), Ashes to ashes at Gallery :SKALA in Poznan (2020), The Emergency Biennale as part of Self House Residency (2020), Z Files off-site installation (2019) and Is it too late now to say sorry as a part of Poznan Art Week at Polonez Hotel in Poznan (2019). They have held residencies as part of Artists in Residence 2021 at Petrohradská kolektiv in Prague (2021), Brno House of Arts in Brno (2020), and Self-House Residency (2020). They have participated in many group exhibitions - Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises~Chapter 5 at Jedna Dva Tri Gallery in Prague (2021), Les Danses Nocturnes in Entrevaux (2021), the 12th edition of the festival Warsaw under Construction: Something Common at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Effects of Pandemic: Dreams at the Heart of Man Gallery as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2020), the outdoor campaign of Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2020), the pumping station Port Miejski as part of SURVIVAL 18th Art Review in Wrocław (2020), A Dream Within a Dream an outdoor exhibition curated by DZIDY DUO in Warsaw (2019) and the exhibition Interest created together with Potencja Gallery as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2018). The Øleg&Kaśka duo focuses on personal narratives and storytelling in their artistic practice. They create paintings and objects that are used as actors playing their roles in exhibitions. Their goal is to create situations that affect the audience. They reinterpret classical media such as painting or sculpture, creating innovative intermedia objects.
Øleg&Kaśka were asked to create Wands color, which indicates activity and action. The artists do not call themselves activists, although their art speaks about problems related to ecology, environment, or politics. The Wands correspond to a material world that is developing, progressing, and in constant motion. They are an encouragement to action and progress.
CUPS
Aleksandra Liput (born 1989) - visual artist, painter, author of installations, ceramic sculptures, and artistic textiles. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2017), where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. and working as an assistant. In 2017 she was a finalist of Coming Out - Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Together with Michalina Sablik, she forms the independent curatorial duo DZIDY Duo. Together they organize group pop-up site-specific exhibitions in unusual spaces of disused restaurants or gardens. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions: Astral Data Transmission at Baszta Gallery in Cracow (2020), Astral Insects Catchers (as part of the Soon project) at Spectra Art Space in Warsaw (2020), #behappyalways at Al. Ujazdowskie 8 in Warsaw (2018). As well as collective works - Les Danses Nocturnes at the Spread Museum in Entrevaux, France (2021), Salon of Magical Renewal at the Widna Gallery in Cracow (2021), Beautiful Losers at the How to Forget Gallery in Cracow (2020), Three Plagues at the Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin (2019), What do you do? at the Academy Salon Gallery in Warsaw (2019), Krew-werk at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw (2016). In her practice, the artist explores themes of anxiety, inheritance of trauma, and spirituality in the broadest sense. She is interested in concepts related to myth and utopia.
Aleksandra created for us the Cups color - this is an obvious association with objects created by her that resemble goblets, candlesticks, or even literally are cups. The symbolism of Cups relates to emotions, desires, dreams, and feelings. They are associated with family relationships and other loved ones, which Alexandra's work also touches upon. It speaks of the spiritual side of life. Aleksandra's works resemble totemic symbols, objects from the domain of the sacrum.
PENTACLES
Piotr Bosacki (born 1977) - visual artist, composer, creator of objects, drawings, installations, and animated films. In 2004 he graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan, where he currently runs the Experimental Film Studio in the Department of Intermedia. Co-founder of the Poznan art group Penerstwo, a former member of the music band Grupa KOT (defunct since 2011). His artistic activity also includes literary work, which is situated on the borderline between fiction and applied literature. So far published: Traumtagebuch (Transmisja Foundation, Poznan, 2009), Urządzenie Elementów (eng. Device of Elements) (UAP, Poznan, 2012) and Commentary to Obvious Things (UAP, Poznan, 2017). His major works include Kołomaszyna (kinetic sculpture, 2004), Dracula (2010, animated film), Obvious Things (2013, animated film), Szósty zwój (string trio, 2013) and Die Kunst der Animation (animated film series, since 2014). He is the winner of the Young Poland Scholarship (2010), the First Prize at the Short Waves Festival (2011), the SFP Award for Best Polish Film at the Animator Festival (2014), the Audience Award at the Animator Festival (2017) and the Katarzyna Kobro Award for 2017.
Piotr Bosacki created for us all the cards from the Pentacles color. Their symbolism points to the material world. We associate them with Piotr's simple in form animated films, in which we often see animated objects of everyday use. The coins represent the mundane, ordinary everyday life. They draw our attention to slow, laborious activities that provide long-term effects and satisfaction.
Inside Job duo - is Ula Lucińska (born 1992) and Michal Knychaus (born 1987). Ula studied History of Art at Adam Mickiewicz University (2015), she is also a graduate of Intermedia (2021) and Scenography and Fashion Design at the University of Arts in Poznan (2018). Michal graduated in Cultural History at Adam Mickiewicz University (2013) and Intermedia and Graphic Design at the University of Arts in Poznan (2018). As a duo, they participated in Rupert Residency in Vilnius (2021), A-I-R FUTURA in Prague (2020), Terrain-Gurzelen in Biel/Bienne (2018-2019), TestDrive at DriveDrive in Nicosia (2018), and Kulturfabrik Burgdorf (2016). Their work has been shown in dozens of group international and national exhibitions. The most important individual exhibitions are: Breathing in the Shallows at Eastcontemporary in Milan (2021), And the door was kicked open again at Futura in Prague (2021), Not a gift given but a choice made at Pavilion in Poznan (2019), Overly sexy, smart, edgy and dangerous at DriveDrive in Nicosia (2018), Overwrite/Discard/Save Both at Gallery :SKALA in Poznan (2018) and Roses: Sky is the limit. Just keep pressing on at Hot Wheels Projects in Athens (2018). They are winners of the Santander Universidades Prize (2016) and finalists in the international competition Artagon IV in Paris (2018). They also received awards from SZUM and Czas Kultury magazines for their collaborative thesis (2018). In 2021, they are nominated for the Allegro Prize. As Inside Job, they create interdisciplinary artistic projects. They are complex compositions processing futuristic and post-apocalyptic visions. They are interested in the processes by which human identity is created - at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology.
Inside Job prepared all the cards from the Swords group for us. For their design, they collaborated with Sohyun "Soso" Park, a young artist and designer originally from Seoul and based in The Hague, who was responsible for the background compositions. Swords correspond to the element of air, which is reflected in Sohyun's ephemeral prints. On the other hand, Ula and Michał's works often refer to architectural elements, such as traceries or Art Nouveau ornaments, and the metal shapes they cut out correspond to the swords motif. Swords are also associated with coldness, which resounds in the strongly post-humanistic projects of the Inside Job duo. The main inspiration for the card shapes were ancient ritual blades.
WANDS
Øleg&Kaśka - is an artistic duo, formed in 2018. In 2020 they graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan with a degree in intermedia and painting. In 2019 they also studied at the University of West Attica in Athens as part of an inter university exchange. They have shown their work in solo exhibitions - The Sleep of Reason at Berlínskej Model in Prague (2021), Ashes to ashes at Gallery :SKALA in Poznan (2020), The Emergency Biennale as part of Self House Residency (2020), Z Files off-site installation (2019) and Is it too late now to say sorry as a part of Poznan Art Week at Polonez Hotel in Poznan (2019). They have held residencies as part of Artists in Residence 2021 at Petrohradská kolektiv in Prague (2021), Brno House of Arts in Brno (2020), and Self-House Residency (2020). They have participated in many group exhibitions - Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises~Chapter 5 at Jedna Dva Tri Gallery in Prague (2021), Les Danses Nocturnes in Entrevaux (2021), the 12th edition of the festival Warsaw under Construction: Something Common at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Effects of Pandemic: Dreams at the Heart of Man Gallery as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2020), the outdoor campaign of Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2020), the pumping station Port Miejski as part of SURVIVAL 18th Art Review in Wrocław (2020), A Dream Within a Dream an outdoor exhibition curated by DZIDY DUO in Warsaw (2019) and the exhibition Interest created together with Potencja Gallery as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2018). The Øleg&Kaśka duo focuses on personal narratives and storytelling in their artistic practice. They create paintings and objects that are used as actors playing their roles in exhibitions. Their goal is to create situations that affect the audience. They reinterpret classical media such as painting or sculpture, creating innovative intermedia objects.
Øleg&Kaśka were asked to create Wands color, which indicates activity and action. The artists do not call themselves activists, although their art speaks about problems related to ecology, environment, or politics. The Wands correspond to a material world that is developing, progressing, and in constant motion. They are an encouragement to action and progress.
CUPS
Aleksandra Liput (born 1989) - visual artist, painter, author of installations, ceramic sculptures, and artistic textiles. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2017), where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. and working as an assistant. In 2017 she was a finalist of Coming Out - Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Together with Michalina Sablik, she forms the independent curatorial duo DZIDY Duo. Together they organize group pop-up site-specific exhibitions in unusual spaces of disused restaurants or gardens. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions: Astral Data Transmission at Baszta Gallery in Cracow (2020), Astral Insects Catchers (as part of the Soon project) at Spectra Art Space in Warsaw (2020), #behappyalways at Al. Ujazdowskie 8 in Warsaw (2018). As well as collective works - Les Danses Nocturnes at the Spread Museum in Entrevaux, France (2021), Salon of Magical Renewal at the Widna Gallery in Cracow (2021), Beautiful Losers at the How to Forget Gallery in Cracow (2020), Three Plagues at the Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin (2019), What do you do? at the Academy Salon Gallery in Warsaw (2019), Krew-werk at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw (2016). In her practice, the artist explores themes of anxiety, inheritance of trauma, and spirituality in the broadest sense. She is interested in concepts related to myth and utopia.
Aleksandra created for us the Cups color - this is an obvious association with objects created by her that resemble goblets, candlesticks, or even literally are cups. The symbolism of Cups relates to emotions, desires, dreams, and feelings. They are associated with family relationships and other loved ones, which Alexandra's work also touches upon. It speaks of the spiritual side of life. Aleksandra's works resemble totemic symbols, objects from the domain of the sacrum.
PENTACLES
Piotr Bosacki (born 1977) - visual artist, composer, creator of objects, drawings, installations, and animated films. In 2004 he graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan, where he currently runs the Experimental Film Studio in the Department of Intermedia. Co-founder of the Poznan art group Penerstwo, a former member of the music band Grupa KOT (defunct since 2011). His artistic activity also includes literary work, which is situated on the borderline between fiction and applied literature. So far published: Traumtagebuch (Transmisja Foundation, Poznan, 2009), Urządzenie Elementów (eng. Device of Elements) (UAP, Poznan, 2012) and Commentary to Obvious Things (UAP, Poznan, 2017). His major works include Kołomaszyna (kinetic sculpture, 2004), Dracula (2010, animated film), Obvious Things (2013, animated film), Szósty zwój (string trio, 2013) and Die Kunst der Animation (animated film series, since 2014). He is the winner of the Young Poland Scholarship (2010), the First Prize at the Short Waves Festival (2011), the SFP Award for Best Polish Film at the Animator Festival (2014), the Audience Award at the Animator Festival (2017) and the Katarzyna Kobro Award for 2017.
Piotr Bosacki created for us all the cards from the Pentacles color. Their symbolism points to the material world. We associate them with Piotr's simple in form animated films, in which we often see animated objects of everyday use. The coins represent the mundane, ordinary everyday life. They draw our attention to slow, laborious activities that provide long-term effects and satisfaction.