The Solidarity Transport Hub (CPK) is a major transport hub that is to be built across three Masovian municipalities: Baranów, Teresin and Wiskitki. The exhibition is a spatiotemporal exploration of the surroundings of CPK – the Grodzisk, Żyrardów and Sochaczew counties – both in a speculative view and as presented through capitalist realism.

The starting point is the image of Masovian villages on the eve of the investment. This sleepy landscape refers us to stories from the past and future, completed and unfulfilled. Its protagonists are: a bridge from Radziejowice, a viaduct from Hipolitów, a chimney from Moszna, sedge from Jaktorów, a signpost from Kaski, waterways of the Baranów municipality, a tick from Jaktorów, the Pisia river, animal farms, potato fields, asphalt roads, the A2 motorway, railway infrastructure, the Jaktorów Forest, Międzyborów Dunes, Baranów meadows, a park in Grodzisk, Bolimów Landscape Park, Mariańska Forest.

A lively debate has been going on for several years in connection with the investment, its periods of intensification overlapping with the Polish electoral calendar. We are interested in the place where the potential airport would be located. What was happening here? How is it here? And how could it be? What distinguishes a place that stands out for nothing? What can an investment lead to that loses its form and idea, transforming into various scenarios depending on market conditions and chance? We are trying to answer these questions based on several years of research.

Accompanying events

• 28 June 2025, 12:00–18:00 – gallery duty, artist's tour by Anna Siekierska and Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak
• 5 July 2025, 12:00–18:00 – gallery duty, artist's tour by Kuba Maria Mazurkiewicz
• 11 July 2025, 16:00–20:00 – gallery duty, artist's tour by Małgorzata Gurowska and Agata Szydłowska (Zoe)
• 19 July 2025, 20:00 – launch of the sight-seeing booklet Czasoprzestrzenna Podróż Krajoznawcza. Okolice Baranowa (Spatiotemporal Sightseeing Journey. Around Baranów), publ. Dar Dobryszyc 2025

Project funded from science funds of the Faculty of Sculpture (exhibition) and the Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies (publication) of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.