Newham Through Our Lens by Paulina Korobkiewicz

I am starting a new commission in collaboration with Rosetta Arts, Centrala Space, Culture Within Newham, The Roma Support Group and Arts Council England. I will be leading a photography club serving as a platform to capture voices of the Eastern European migrants who have made Newham their home. Together, we will be working towards an exhibition that portrays the community and showcases the diverse perspectives and experiences. The club is free and open to All. Join us two Saturdays of the month!

Join us this Saturday at Beckton Globe Library for the first session of the Eastern European Photography Club: Newham Through Our Lens!


The club will serve as a platform for Central and Eastern Europeans in Newham to tell their unique stories through the art of photography.


Whether you're an experienced photographer or just starting out, join us for free sessions, hosted by Paulina Korobkiewicz, in capturing our stories in Newham.

Where: Beckton Globe Library, 1 Kingsford Way, London E6 5JQ

When: Two Saturdays a month, 10:30-12:30pm


20th January (this Saturday!), 3rd February, 24th February, 9th March, 23rd March, 20th April, 4th May, 18th May, 8th June, 22nd June, 29th June, Exhibition date tbc


Sign up here: https://shorturl.at/boCJ9

Crafting Collective Memory: Collage-Making Workshop by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Crafting Collective Memory: Explore ‘Homeland’ Through Art of Collage-Making with photographers and visual artists Ismail Khokon and Paulina Korobkiewicz

Massive thank you to everyone who joined our collage-making workshop in collaboration with Ismail Khokon in Nottingham's Surface last Saturday! We love the artworks you created!

This was our last session part of Post-Socialist Britain? my residency at Centrala this year.

'Homeland' exhibition closes this week. Swing by before Dec 16th to see these amazing contributions!

Homeland Opening @ Surface Gallery by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Fri 1 Dec - Sat 16 Dec 2023

Homeland exhibition opens at Surface Gallery, Nottigham this Friday, 1st Dec.

The show features photographs from Sylwia Ciszewska-Pecik, Yuxi Hou, Ismail Khokon, Marcin Forys, and the Central European Photography Club participants.

This project is the result of my 18 months of residency Centrala. During this time, I created a body of work between West Bromwich and Hyson Green, Nottingham. In both locations, I met brilliant artists whom I invited to contribute to the show.

Curated by Rafailia Thiraiou, Homeland explores ideas around home, memories, common national traits recognized by migrants, the role of their migrant community abroad, their position in it, concerns, aspirations, and how they have adapted.

Surface Gallery

16 Southwell Rd, Nottingham NG1 1DL

Free Entry

Sequencing and Storytelling with James Cunliffe by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Sequencing and Storytelling for Local Artists with Paulina Korobkiewicz and James Cunliffe

Calling all local professionals and artists! Join us for a zine-making workshop tailored for artists seeking to transform their work into captivating zines. Explore themes of identity, collective memory, and creating a portrait of a place as we learn about sequencing and storytelling. Bring images that resonate with your heritage or your connection to a meaningful place, or anything else you would like to make a zine out of. Exchange ideas and inspirations with fellow creatives during our artist networking drinks in the final hour. Come share your stories and forge new creative connections!

This workshop takes place on Monday, 13th November 6-9pm

To sign up to the free workshop visit the link ---> sign up here.

Zine-making workshops with Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Exploring the Art of Zine Making with Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora and Paulina Korobkiewicz

Join us for an inspiring zine-making workshop, open to all, serving as a platform for Ukrainian migrants to tell unique stories through the art of photography and zine making. The workshops are a safe space to share ideas and experience where we’ll explore the multifaceted concept of ‘home’—what it means to us and the possibilities it holds. Bring along your treasured photos, whether they’re in print or digital format, that resonate with your personal notion of ‘home,’ and together, we’ll craft narratives that explore the rich tapestry of this theme. You’ll learn various stitching techniques and create your own handcrafted book to take with you, encapsulating your personal journey and reflections.

This workshop is a part of Paulina’s current exhibition here at Centrala ‘Homeland’. Homeland is departing from the research project Post-Socialist Britain?: Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German, Polish and Ukrainian Immigrants in the UK, a large-scale research project in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and the Nottingham Trent University exploring how and if memory is linked to political identity, and how this is manifested in a different national context.

This workshop takes place on Wednesday 25th October, 6-8pm for 18+ and Thursday 26th October, 1-3pm, children welcome.

To sign up to the free workshop visit the link (make sure you pick the date you want to attend) ---> sign up here.

Image courtesy of Angela Grabowska

Homeland Exhibition @ Centrala by Paulina Korobkiewicz

A touring exhibition exploring themes of political identity, belonging, memory and representation. 

Centrala is pleased to present Homeland, an exhibition following an 18-month residency of the photographer and visual artist Paulina Korobkiewicz. The exhibition opening will take place on the 6th of October at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham and on the 1st of December in Surface Gallery, Nottingham. 

Homeland is departing from the research project Post-Socialist Britain?: Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German, Polish and Ukrainian Immigrants in the UK, a large-scale research project in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and the Nottingham Trent University exploring how and if memory is linked to political identity, and how this is manifested in a different national context. 

Homeland will address themes of political identity, belonging, memory and representation among migrant communities in West Bromwich and Hyson Green, with a specific focus, but not limited to, Polish migrant communities. Throughout the residency, Korobkiewicz familiarised herself with these areas and established relationships with the members of the migrant communities, initiating dialogues and participating in local celebrations and events, researching and creating a contemporary portrait of those communities. 

The exhibition will reflect on the visibility of the communities within the areas of focus (West Bromwich & Hyson Green), and serve as a platform to share experiences of migration from various perspectives. Korobkiewicz’s photographic series explores the visibility of the migrant community within public space and the importance of it.

Accompanying Korobkiewicz’s work, Homeland will also include photographic projects from Sylwia Ciszewska-Peciak, Yuxi Hou, Ismail Khokon, and Marcin Forys, participants of the Central European Photography Club, with whom she worked closely during her residency, through mentoring and sharing experiences.

Homeland is also highlighting the importance and the role of the artist as a social agent. The partnership and collaboration between Centrala and the University of Birmingham commissioning an artist to conduct community-based research, establish trust, and share experiences and stories of migration through visual storytelling.

Centrala

Fri 06 Oct - Sat 18 Nov 2023

Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RT

Opening Hours: Wed-Sat, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Free Entry

Image courtesy of Angela Grabowska

Surface Gallery

Fri 1 Dec - Sat 16 Dec 2023

16 Southwell Rd, Nottingham NG1 1DL

Opening Hours: Tue - Friday 12:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-17:00

Free Entry

Drive-In Film Screening @ Cube Microplex by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Me and Jack Martyn Richardson are premiering our collaborative film Drive-In at the Young Echo All Dayer at the Cube Microplex.

Drive-In is a film from an ongoing project exploring the tradition and aesthetics of travelling fair grounds in London.

30.09.2023

Young Echo Alldayer, Cube Microplex

2PM - 1AM

Central Eastern European Communities in Newham Commission by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Rosetta Arts in collaboration with Centrala Gallery and Culture Within Newham, World on Our Doorstep commissioned me to reach out to local communities of Newham, with the focus on the Central Eastern European members, to share ideas, brainstorm new ones, pull on their own heritage to design new activities, and, critically, talk in safe space about the stresses they feel today and what creative, cultural activity they could attend or take part in that will bring them joy.

I have been walking around Newham and talking with people I met in the streets about their experience of the area. I have been visiting shops, cafes and community centres; asking people what activities would help improve their life, what they would like to see more of. I met some great people and will continue documenting this area.

Together with Rosetta Arts we held coffee morning where people could come and share their ideas, as well as having their photo taken if they wanted to.

Community Event @ New Art Exchange by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Homeland - Celebrating Communities, is the second community event part of my artist residency at Centrala, in partnership with Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and Humanities Research Council - AHRC Nottingham Trent University). The event is free and open to everyone.

29th April 2023, New Art Exchange, 1 - 4 pm

collage and craft workshop + photo booth + showcase of works by Central European Photography Club participants + food for everyone

Live music from MUHA band

39-41 Gregory Blvd, Nottingham NG7 6BE

Free entry

Homeland - Celebrating Communities @ West Bromwich Town Hall by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Community Event as a part of my artist residency at Centrala, in partnership with Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and Humanities Research Council - AHRC Nottingham Trent University)

22nd April 2023, West Bromwich Town Hall, 1 - 4 pm

For the last 15 months I have been working between West Bromwich, Birmingham and Hyson Green, Nottingham to develop a photographic project focused on local communities as a part of my artist residency at Centrala, Post-Socialist Britain.

This Saturday we are celebrating those who took part and inviting new people to join us. There will be different mixed-media workshops, collage activities for the entire family, photobooth and portrait printing, food and music. We will be showcasing works by the participants of the Central European Photography Club, which had been taking place parallel to my commission. I will speak about my new body of work - Homeland - which will go on display at Centrala in September this year. Please come along and tell your friends! It will be a fun day!

High St, West Bromwich B70 8DJ

Image courtesy of Angela Grabowska

HAPAX Magazine Issue 03 by Paulina Korobkiewicz

The new third issue of Hapax Magazine (Winter 2022/23) is out now!

Featuring my freshly commissioned series For You, among wonderful works by Amin Yousefi, Immaculata Abba, Alexander Mourant and Helen Sear, as well as new curation from Rica Cerbarano, bringing together work from Anthony Luvera, Gohar Dashti and Mentalgassi.

Cover design by Ania Nałęcka-Milach

Get your copy here.

spaces of (dis)connection - Art 27, Edinburgh by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Following the exhibition at Centrala Space, Birmingham and Clapham Library, London, spaces of (dis)connection: migrant essential workers show is travelling to its final destination, Art27 in Edinburgh.

The group exhibition follows a pioneering project conducted by researchers across the UK to investigate how the pandemic has affected the everyday lives and settlement plans of Polish workers in the UK. This exhibition combines newly commissioned photographic work by Małgorzata Dawidek, Paulina Korobkiewicz, and Sylwia Kowalczyk alongside anonymous testimonies given by Polish essential workers across the UK.

The exhibition launch will be on Thursday 27 October at 7PM, and will be on display until 8th November.

Art 27, 40-42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh EH8 9JP, Scotland

Community, Collectivity, Photography panel Discussion by Paulina Korobkiewicz

I am looking forward to speaking as part of this panel discussion on Friday with photographers Anka Gregorczyk, Łukasz Szamałek and Stephen Burke.

This panel asks the question: what is the value of the artist-collective? And how does collaboration benefit the socially-engaged photographer?

Through the photographer’s lens, we will be speaking to current exhibitors Anka Gregorczyk and Łukasz Szamałek (FOTSPOT Association), Stephen Burke (Grain Projects), and Paulina Korobkiewicz (Centrala's Artist in Residence) to gain a greater insight into the world of collective practice and socially engaged photography. This discussion promises to be an insightful exploration of the international benefit of the artist collective.

Unit 4, Minerva Works 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham 

www.centrala-space.org.uk

Synergy @ the Cube Microplex by Paulina Korobkiewicz

Synergy is on display during Young Echo All Dayer event at the Cube Microplex in Bristol; a day of music and films screenings.

Copies of the zine are available at the event.

01.10.2022, 2PM - 1AM

Synergy Screening, Cinema: 5.50 PM

Cube Microplex

Dove Street South
[off top-left of King Square]
Kingsdown
Bristol
BS2 8JD