Debuts: Karolina Dyczko "Abyss"

Venue: Silver Gallery Under the Quail’s Basket, 38 Market Square 

Date: 30.04.-30.05.2026

Opening: 8 May 2026

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 14:00

Admission free

Debuts is an award granted by the Gallery of Art in Legnica as part of the Władysław Strzemiński Project Competition  for students of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź. The aim of the Debuts series is to provide young artists with an opportunity to make their mark on the international art scene and to gain their first experiences in presenting their own work. Karolina Dyczko’s exhibition serves as a summary of her educational journey so far and offers a cross-sectional presentation of her creative explorations.

Karolina Dyczko is a second-year master’s student at the Institute of Jewellery at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź and a graduate of the Antoni Kenar State High School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. She designs and creates mainly jewellery, although her artistic practice often extends beyond this field, encompassing other media and art forms.

In her work, she places strong emphasis on composition, subdued colour palettes, and the diversity of textures and tonal values. She is interested in light, line, and shape in the context of jewellery, and she conducts her formal explorations through combinations of various materials and analyses of their mutual interactions. The word “collage” best captures the character of her works. In the creative process, it is particularly important for her to yield to the material, to use its natural properties, and to create a space that brings individual character.

She strives to build the atmosphere and mood of an object, to give it autonomy, an inner “soul,” and a sense of mystery — so that the essence of the experience becomes more important than literal representation. Performativity is an integral element of jewellery for her, which is why she considers the relationship between the object and the body already at the design stage. It is important to her whether the jewellery functions in everyday life, whether it requires a specific positioning of the body, and whether it provokes particular gestures.

Her works have been published in Badlon Magazine, KMAG, and Polski Jubiler. She has participated in group exhibitions in Łódź (including at the Art Factory, the Museum of Natural History, the Orientarium at the Łódź Zoo, and the ASP galleries), as well as in Legnica, Szczecin, Włocławek, Sandomierz, and Gdańsk.

She has also taken part in performative activities with jewelry, including during the Legnica SILVER Festival, the Inhorgenta trade fair in Munich, and at the Young & Crafts event in Szczecin.

From the diploma collection Diamond Chapels, silver, mica, black oak, ivory, tourmaline, 2024

Corset inspired by the Blade Runner movie, resin, alpaca, 2025

Manifesto, steel, alpaca, titanium‑zinc, silver, 2026

PARTies – part of bodIES, photographic transfers on plaster, textiles, beads, 2025