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Ewa Łączkowska

wild growing sky

Over the past 12 years, I have been involved in various multidisciplinary, international, mostly independent projects – as an artist, performer, researcher, writer, but also as a leader, producer, manager, curator, editor.

And so, I am many things – or rather, interweaving processes, moving across a wide array of visions and constantly experimenting with what is possible. The areas of my work frequently overlap and evolve, as I find new forms of expression and engagement with the world.

Treat the following portfolio as a sort of kaleidoscope.

Because it’s nothing else than changing patterns, like a flame that is always shifting… Each pattern, and each still, hints to the nature of a flame. It opens up a landscape. And in each landscape, there are things that live in the shadows and transitory interspaces. This list of things is a cutout of me; becomings scrambled into words. It might give you some idea. But, as always, the map is not the territory. The only way to experience the territory is to enter it – and look closely…

born in 1991 in Poland, based in Düsseldorf, Germany since 2013. generalist and multidisciplinary enthusiast.

dabbling in artistic practices, sociology, somatic work, and design, as well as managing and facilitating transformation and change processes.

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art/design project illumistein-nt

2024-ongoing

manager, curator, media designer

Curated exhibition: Tomek Kowalski, THE MYTHS OF YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
Freies Kunst Kollektiv Wuppertal
Promo video [Instagram]

independent filmmaking

2025

TO BECOME THE LANDSCAPE – short film reflecting on art and self

art at the kitchen sink – artist interview with Tomek Kowalski

Autumn dialogues about aikido – documentary series

2023

Stimmen der Geflüchteten. Ein Film von und mit den Geflüchteten in Erkrath.
Eine Produktion des Freundeskreises für Flüchtlinge in Erkrath e.V., zusammen mit Lyralyn Helling

MUSIC

2025

ichi-go ichi-e: a collaboration with faintface, featured on the OPIA Compilation 003

ongoing

musical storytelling: see Trails to nowhere

painting & sculpture

see Visual Work and Earthbound

publishing

2023-2024

OPIA Community Magazine
founder, editor-in-chief of Vol. 1: Embrace the Dirt

2016

otwarte
independently published poetry book

artistic research and writing

ongoing

substack: shifting encounters, perilous embodiments
multidisciplinary thoughts on knowledge, expression, and embodiment – inspired by somatic work, artistic practice, and science and technology studies (STS) – with sections on Entangled Translations and On Art

2025

Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces Through Somatic, Arts-based Methods.
In: S. R. Davies et al. (eds.), Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Book chapter featuring a somatic research video with music by Sofi Paez

2024

WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. ~~a manifesto for~~ embracing life. OPIA Community Magazine, Vol. 1: Embrace the Dirt.

2023

THE [ W A L L S ] WE CREATE. On distance in research practice. Research Catalogue. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/rc.2260209.
Multidisciplinary publication featuring a somatic research video with music by Ólafur Arnalds

2022

Lost in Translation? Enacting tacit knowing in sociology and dance
Master thesis project, in German, available upon request. Continued in a kind of translation as Entangled Translations