Open Archive
Third Event in the Future Fragments Series
Thursday, 16 July 2026, 6:00 PM
Free Admission
Throughout the year, Foksal Gallery is hosting the seminar series Open Archive, in which invited guests open the gallery's wooden archive crates to critically examine selected themes, phenomena, and figures from its history. The series takes place once a month, beginning in April—the month marking the gallery's 60th anniversary.
For this edition, Future Fragments departs from the Foksal Gallery archive to speculate on art and technology, humans and machines, intelligence and creativity, past rebellions and future anxieties.
Has conceptualism become the theory of our present? Today, the idea matters more than the object itself. Artworks, texts, and memory circulate as data, processed independently of an author's knowledge or intention, while the boundary between creation and repetition continues to dissolve. Increasingly, what matters is the gesture of selection: rather than constructing, we simply choose from countless possibilities. Yet no one has ever seen the repository in which all of these possibilities are stored in its entirety.
The Theory of Place will collide with the hidden spaces of generative models, while archival documentation encounters streams of metabolic images and synthetic data. As we will discover, the mythologies of the neo-avant-garde and the hallucinations of the digital age have far more in common than they might initially suggest.
Future Fragments is an initiative that brings together art, technology, and critical theory to explore the nature of intelligence and creativity. Rather than treating them as fixed attributes of individuals, we understand them as complex phenomena emerging through relationships and evolving through interactions between organisms, systems, and environments. Likewise, we do not position technology in opposition to nature but regard it as another layer of the global ecosystem. We investigate how the development of technology and intelligence—in both human and non-human forms—is reshaping our understanding of their roles and their mutual influence.
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Jakub Depczyński is an art historian, researcher, and curator. He holds an MA in Art History and Theory from the Faculty of Visual Culture Management at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He works as Curator of Public Programmes at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. His research focuses on post-artistic practices, the social utility of art, artistic responses to the planetary climate and environmental crisis, and the relationship between art and technology. He is co-author of the Atlas of the Anti-Fascist Year and co-founder of the Bureau of Post-Artistic Services, the Solidarity House of Culture "Sunflower," and the Future Fragments platform.
Noviki is an artistic and research duo working at the intersection of art, technology, and design, founded by Marcin Nowicki and Katarzyna Nestorowicz. Their practice investigates the transformations of visual culture and the aesthetics emerging from the relationships between language, digital tools, algorithms, and artificial intelligence systems. They approach design as both a critical and epistemological method, while publications, exhibitions, and editorial processes function as forms of artistic research. They are the initiators of research-based think tanks such as Future Fragments, which create spaces for exchange between art, theory, and technological practice. Their work exists between visual experimentation and critical reflection on culture in a state of continuous transformation—where technologies not only generate images and narratives but also redefine the ways we think, perceive, and construct meaning.