Magdalena Szubielska – My mum is keen on coffee and sleeping | Exhibition
About
Magdalena Szubielska’s exhibition My Mum is keen on coffee and sleeping, explores how easily we construct mistaken impressions of others based on limited information. It also addresses the issue of incorrect assumptions and expectations that arise when adapting to a new environment. The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 15th.
“My mum is keen on coffee and sleeping.”
A simple sentence — or maybe a mirror of how time, exhaustion, and daily rhythm shape our judgments. Does she really love coffee and sleep, or does she simply work at night, and the only things that matter in the morning are another half-hour of rest and a cup of black brew strong enough to restart the day?
The exhibition looks at how appearances deceive us, how limited information about any individual, and not just Autists, can shape a complete, but mistaken story. It also explores the process of adapting to new realities, where such misconceptions multiply.
How much can we, or should we, debunk them? How do we reclaim the time and space to see others as they truly are?
These are the questions Magdalena Szubielska asks herself — and processes through the language of art.
Curator: Agata Sztorc-Gromaszek
Collaboration: Nina Bułtowicz
About the Artist
Magdalena Szubielska (AKA Lejdi Szop) – a lover of coffee and sleeping. Mother of three daughters. An A*tist. Since October 2025, she has been a professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
As a scientist, she explores cognitive psychology and empirical aesthetics — including imagination in blind individuals, aphantasia and creativity, the oculocentric bias in perception, emotions in art audiences, and the boundary between “artistic” and “life” modes of street art reception.
As an artist, curator, and educator, she focuses on socially engaged art. She co-authored exhibitions about autism (A Song about My Family, Atists*), presented at Galeria Labirynt in Lublin (2022, 2023) and Galeria Epizod in Toruń (2024).
Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2017), the Mayor of Lublin (2016, 2018, 2023), and the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (2017).
About the Series
The exhibition is part of the Spectrum of Art series, within the Art of Sensitivity project — co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
Details
Opening: November 15, 2025 (Saturday), 6:00 PM
Viewing: November 17 – December 10, 2025
Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, and during accompanying events
Location: Workshops of Culture, Grodzka 7, Exhibition room – 2nd floor
Admission: Free | Age restrictions: None
Accessibility
The opening will be translated into Polish Sign Language (PJM) – interpreter: Ewelina Lachowska.
Venue is not wheelchair accessible
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