You are invited to an exhibition by NeMA lecturer Boris Schwencke entitled "The most beautiful things in life happen by chance".

We cordially invite you to the exhibition by NeMA lecturer Boris Schwencke entitled "The most beautiful things in life happen by accident" at the DAP3 Gallery at 11a Mazowiecka Street in Warsaw.

The vernissage will take place on August 11, 2023 at 6:30 PM, and the exhibition will be open until August 29, 2023.

About the exhibition

"„The most beautiful things in life happen by chance” – these are the very words I once read during a journey on a sugar packet which, like other packets, was decorated with various life lessons. Thus, quite by chance, I came across a text bringing to mind a similar statement by Gabriel García Márquez and an operetta aria about chance by Johann Strauss. It is worth considering on this occasion whether a coincidence is really just a coincidence, or perhaps it is subject to an internal secret logic... although that is already a philosophical question, quite like whether the soul is immortal and the will free...

Yet even if life – as Novalis put it – is not "a novel given to us, but a novel created by us," these few beautiful coincidences certainly constitute an irreplaceable source of inspiration.

Boris Schwencke

Boris Schwencke graduated from the Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin and the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He defended his doctorate at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2011. In April 2016, the Council of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław passed a resolution conferring on him the postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) in the field of fine arts, in the discipline of fine arts.

He works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Specialized and Intercultural Communication at the University of Warsaw and at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in the sculpture studio at the Faculty of New Media Art. Since the 2017/18 academic year, he has been running the Sculpture and Spatial Actions Studio at the Faculty of Scenography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His works can be found, among others, in the Numismatic Cabinets of the British Museum in London, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, and the Museum of Medallic Art in Wrocław.