Level 4 Gallery
The spacious exhibition area is located directly under the fascinating geometric roof with characteristic skylights, brightening this zone with natural light. This space's ascetic white, yet extraordinary plasticity, creates vast possibilities for arrangement, allowing for the realization of various forms and interdisciplinary activities. On many occasions, Level 4 has hosted painters, photographers, and artists representing other fields of visual arts – sculptors, performers, and creators of interactive or multimedia installations.
There have been works by, among others, Chris Niedenthal, Szymon Brodziak, Jarosław Eysmont, Zofia Rydet, Tadeusz Rolke, Stefan Krygier, Oskar Zieta, Wojciech Brewka, Ryszard Horowitz or Helmut Newton were presented in the Level 4 Gallery.
Artistic Season 2026/2027
Clearing
On the Moment, the Gaze, Light, and Encounter
Clearing is a word that, much like an image itself, cannot be exhausted by a single meaning. It resonates with the German Lichtung, denoting a place of revelation or opening; the English glimpse, suggesting a fleeting act of perception; and interstice, the space in between, familiar both to architecture and to reflections on space and experience. Each of these concepts emphasises a different aspect-light, a fissure, a moment, or a relationship. Clearing seems to embrace them all.
It is a momentary opening. It appears between trees, within the structure of matter, in the play of light. A single opening is enough to alter our perspective and invite us to look further.
Art works in much the same way. A painting does not always reveal itself at once. Its meaning may emerge only in a later encounter, when we return to it with eyes changed by time and experience. It does not offer a complete image of reality or ready-made answers. Instead, it allows us to see the world through another person’s gaze, becoming a vessel for their sensitivity, memory, and experience.
The exhibitions presented throughout this season do not form a single narrative. What unites them is the conviction that an image cannot be exhausted by a first glance, nor reduced to a single interpretation. Rather than leading to definitive conclusions, each exhibition invites us to pause, to linger, and to look again.
Perhaps this is the horizon they ultimately share-not a similarity of themes or artistic language, but the belief that an image becomes a place of encounter: with memory, with light, with landscape, with another person, and sometimes with our own way of seeing.
In a world that increasingly demands certainty, immediate judgement, and rapid interpretation, such moments of stillness seem especially precious. Perhaps it is within these clearings-these brief moments of attentive perception-that the deepest meaning of our encounter with art is revealed.
Katarzyna Szeszycka
