About the Artists: Ewa Effenberg-Kaja "All States of Difference"

Venue: Copper Museum, 2 Partyzantów St.

Dates: 24.03. – 28.05.2026
Opening: 9^th May 2026
Open hours: 

In the winter season (from 1 October to 31 May)
Tuesday to Friday from 10:00-17:00 on Saturdays from 11:00-17:00

In the summer season (from 1 June to 30 September)
Wednesday to Friday from 10:00-17:00, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00-17:00

Admission free

We suffer from otherness and because of otherness. Sometimes it arouses negative feelings and destructive forces that want to storm in and establish the ‘right order’ at all costs. The figure of a stranger perfectly channels our fears and anxieties. It is easier to turn against someone different than against ourselves, which would involve confronting our own experience of imperfection or deficiency. Or perhaps it is our own deeply felt otherness, repressed and drowned out as we try so hard to fit in. The fluidity of roles means that we are on both sides: we are formatted, we format others and ourselves, and at the same time we hold an irredicable need for our own authenticity as well as the energy of others, those outside our own range of perception. And what if a homogeneous world turned out to be hell? What if all the beauty of the world lies in difference?

The objects in Ewa Effenberg-Kai's collection defy all attempts to normalise them, to frame them within safe, familiar patterns. The artist enters the realm of otherness, treating it as a boundless space of richness and inspiration. She reaches for material that has otherness written into its DNA – fragments of cosmic matter. She uses fragments of meteorites that have fallen to Earth. She uses them as quotations, turns them in her fingers, makes them partners in a dialogue.

Ewa Effenberg-Kaja, artistic jewellery designer, creator of unique goldsmithing forms. She graduated from the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in the Jewellery Studio under Prof. Andrzej Szadkowski in 2004).

Since 2005, she has been employed at the Jewellery Institute. She runs the Goldsmithing Design Studio. In addition to her teaching work, she creates unique objects, which she has presented at over 200 exhibitions in Poland and abroad: in Italy, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Germany and China. Her works can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery in Legnica, the Regional Museum in Sandomierz, and Magdalena Kwiatkiewicz's artistic jewellery collection.

Necklace – titanium, 925 silver, chondrite meteorite NWA 8756, plexiglass, brass, steel cable

Necklace – titanium, 925 silver, chondrite meteorite NWA 8756, plexiglass, brass, steel cable

Necklace – 925 sterling silver, Tni Haia 001 meteorite, Rumuruti chondrite (R3), oxidized steel, silicone cord, neodymium magnets

Necklace – titanium, 925 silver, chondrite meteorite NWA 6255, plexiglass, brass, steel cable