WHERE:
Polnisches Institut Berlin
Burgstraße 27
10178 Berlin, Germany
WHEN:
June 9, 2026 at 7pm
As part of the accompanying programme to the exhibition Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, writer and poet Julia Fiedorczuk and artist Alexandra Grant come together for a conversation about literature, visual art, ecology, and collaboration across disciplines and borders.
The discussion will focus on the artists’ recent collaborations, including Grant’s interpretation of selected passages from Fiedorczuk’s novel The House of Orion in her painting Mintaka, currently presented within the Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness. The conversation will also offer insight into two upcoming publishing projects developed together with X Artists’ Books.
Rooted in a shared commitment to women’s rights, social and environmental justice, and transnational dialogue, the evening explores how artistic and literary practices can respond to the urgencies of the contemporary world. The conversation will be in Polish and English.
Free admission.
Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, and professor at the University of Warsaw. Her work explores the relationship between human beings and their planetary environments and emphasises the world-making power of literature. She is the author of novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, and essays, including The House of Orion, Under the Sun, and A Cyborg in the Garden: Introduction to Ecocriticism. Fiedorczuk is the recipient of the Wisława Szymborska Prize and has been nominated for the Nike Literary Award and the Julian Tuwim Lifetime Achievement Award. Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages and presented at literary festivals worldwide.
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles– and Berlin–based visual artist whose work explores issues around communication across languages, literary traditions, and cultures. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries globally and she is represented by carlier | gebauer in Berlin and Madrid. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions around the world. She’s also co-founder of independent publisher X Artists’ Books and the creator of the grantLOVE Project, which has raised funds for arts-based nonprofits. Grant received her Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts and her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College.
