Royal Blue VA Gallery
Vernissage: December 5, 6:00 PM
Exhibition open: December 5–12, 2025
LM Ericssons Väg 1
Telefonplan, Stockholm
Freedom – Virtual Reality Exhibition: December 5–31, 2025, Royal Blue VR Gallery online
Project Curator: Magdalena Nilsson
Exhibition Curators:
Barbara Bielecka-Woźniczko | Kamila Krzyżaniak | Magdalena Melissourgaki | Joanna Musiał-Janicka
Artists:
Barbara Bielecka-Woźniczko (Poland) | Mag Blue (Sweden) | Alex Colard (Sweden) | Agnieszka Cylwik (France) | Anastasia Dushak (Sweden) | Ivan Avalos Morales (France) | Kamila Krzyżaniak (United Kingdom) | Carl Lagercrantz (Sweden) | Ewa Madejska (Poland) | Magdalena Melissourgaki (Greece) | Joanna Musiał-Janicka (Poland)
What is Freedom?
Eleven artists, painters, and photographers from various countries introduce this concept. Art is a space that gives one the right to express oneself and seek truth in one’s own way. It offers extensive opportunities to present one’s vision of the world, as well as one’s emotions, desires, and fears. The “Freedom” exhibition was born from the need to demonstrate what is most important in the concept of FREEDOM – the ability to choose, to be oneself while being aware of one’s own decisions.
For every artist, freedom is a great value, allowing them to create, explore their own subject matter, means of expression, and technique, and develop their own style.
For the painter, Barbara Bielecka-Woźniczko, the face is the most insightful determinant of a person. In her works, she depicts human faces that shift and interpenetrate, showing frozen grimaces, terrified gazes, or sometimes dreamy, listening, or smiling expressions. When the masks fall away, the true face of the portrayed subject is revealed, allowing for freedom of interpretation.
“Art has always been a space of freedom, not only for the creator but also for the recipient. It should liberate a new perspective on the world”.
Enduro – Mag Blue’s paintings and photographs create a record of struggles and triumphs – struggles with oneself, with the machine, and with unyielding nature. They capture moments of absolute focus and effort during extreme riding over rocks, fords, and through rough terrain. The astonishing lightness of motorcycles weighing over 100 kilograms, floating through the air with the lightness of a butterfly, defying gravity, is captivating. This is where the motorcycle becomes an extension of will, tenacity, and a symbol of freedom.
„True freedom is when we break free from our own limitations”.
Alex Colard, starting in 2020, this collection explores perspective through abstract geometry and contemporary spiritualism. Inspired by the Babylonian Myth of Creation, and his travels to Teotihuacan, Mysore, and Borobudur, Colard draws from global cultures, lights, and materials. Influenced by Stella, LeWitt, and Soulages, he creates city-scale structures that echo myths and lost worlds. He works with precise craft, new paints, 3D tools, and oil to evolve his vision.
“Freedom as an artist is the opportunity to experiment with various techniques as I do with laser engraving. We can create a concept like mine with Babylon and the origin of humankind and use oil paint, or a 3D printer, or else to make it come alive”.
Agnieszka Cylwik: ” Freedom is a choice that is difficult to describe in words, and each of us has within us. The values that guide my art are emotion, man, beauty, and nature. As an architect, I create space, and as a painter, I reach what is true and makes me free and happy”.
Freedom is a place of exchange between the artist and the recipient. Both sides contribute to the meaning of the image. The creator conveys emotions in the language of intuition, and the recipient gives them meaning based on their own experiences and memories. Freedom allows you to experience art without imposed interpretations. The image becomes an invitation to a dialogue in which creation and seeing meet experience. We are often unaware of the emotions that drive us and that influence our lives. Freedom encourages conversation among ourselves.
Every artist seeking truth wants to be free and unfettered.
Anastasia Dushak Art Dushak’s works speak about responsibility, self-direction, and the creative freedom to be the author of one’s reality. Freedom of Silence represents the right to keep what is deeply personal within oneself — silence as a form of strength. Freedom of Imagination expresses the ability to dream and create an inner world that belongs only to you. In the exhibition, one part is shown in its original form, while the other appears as a printed poster, emphasizing the contrast between the visible and the hidden.
“For me, freedom is the right to stay true to myself, even when the world is not yet ready for my vision. It is the ability to experiment boldly — to blend genres, shift styles, break boundaries, and follow my inner impulse rather than the expectations of others”.
In Freedom, Kamila Krzyżaniak reveals women who don’t ask for space — they reclaim it. Blinded eyes, apparent silence, taut corsets, and luxurious ribbons become armour that cracks under the weight of truth. Each of the artist’s protagonists is like a spark in the darkness: dangerous, elusive, aware of her own strength. The horses, wild and alert, reflect their untamed nature. This is a story of freedom that doesn’t ask — it happens. Kamila Krzyżaniak is not afraid to tackle complex topics; her honesty is her strength.
“Courage doesn’t ask for permission. It enters through doors that were meant to remain closed. First, the gaze trembles, then the shackles break — in this order, freedom is born”.
Carl Magnus Lagercrantz aims to illustrate the tension or desire that artwork may create, helping us see beauty and perplexity. When we view it, we become a human element, seeing it through our own realities as well as the ephemeral elements conceived by the artist, which force us to feel, awakening human sensitivity. We see something unknown to us before, and can still identify with it on some level. Logic and common sense are left behind, and the viewer develops an instant relationship with the work. It can be one of hate and loathing, or love and emotional resonance. It’s rarely indifferent.
“WE HAVE TWO LIVES, AND THE SECOND begins when WE REALIZE WE ONLY HAVE one” – with a quote from Confucius, Carl talks about freedom.
For artists, choice can be a significant challenge, generating anxiety and a sense of dilemma. Choice is a resignation that requires consistency.
Freedom in Ewa Madejska’s works manifests itself as the right to one’s own interpretation and perception of colors and shapes in a unique way. Each viewer can perceive something different, according to their own sensitivity and spiritual experience. The artist gives the viewer space, allowing them to decide what the image will become. In this way, freedom becomes an open, personal, and unrestricted dialogue between the work and the viewer.
“Freedom is an unbounded way of looking, a whispering of thoughts, a seeing of colors”.
For Magdalena Melissourgaki, freedom is the ultimate desire of our soul. Faced with daily struggles, we need a space for release. This exhibition is an artistic refuge where the expression of colour and light becomes the key to a realm of unconstrained dreams. She invites us on a journey deep within herself, with one goal: to feel absolute, unrestricted liberty of being. Here, art serves as an act of liberation from the burdens we carry. She seems to state: Allow your soul to breathe. Discover true freedom.
“The stroke of a brush is an act of liberation for me. I use colour to break the chains of daily life and restore the soul to its original, unrestricted freedom”.
Ivan Avalos Morales (Ivano), having lived through dictatorship and the chaos of guerrilla warfare in Peru, Ivano now cherishes FREEDOM, the fundamental right to choose, to speak, and to exist without fear or constraint. For this exhibition, his works invite reflection on our ability to act – or not act – regarding the environment and the challenges of the world. His travels and experiences confirm his deep conviction: freedom, fragile and precious, must always be protected and defended.
“Freedom is the flame born from an inner choice. It illuminates the soul when it dares to reveal itself to the world without restraint”.
Joanna Musiał-Janicka, a member of Polish Women Photographers and the VAA, presents the perspective of an artist who seeks calm in nature and finds answers within it. These are photographs in which freedom manifests itself in the simplest – sometimes inconspicuous – forms: in the movement of a snail, the light shimmering on branches, or a solitary flower.
They reflect on the freedom to choose one’s own pace, the courage to be oneself, and the trust in the process — and in oneself. Each work reminds us that freedom is quiet, close, and accessible in everyday moments, if only we allow ourselves to notice it. This is freedom that begins with small decisions.
“Freedom expressed through creation is its highest form. It is, for me, the possibility, space, time, and capacity to do nothing but create in mindfulness — simply being in the here and now, with thought aligned to the rhythm of breath, a pure expression that brings joy, wonder, and gratitude: the essence of existence”.
The exhibitions are part of The Visual Artist’s/Curator’s Rapid Accelerator – Residency, Stockholm 2025.
Partners: Art Exhibitions in Stockholm, Charity Art Expo, Charity Art Gallery, DESIGNER magazine, HIQU Art&Foto Rynek, Luxury Splash of Art, Museum El Greco, PADIC
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