Malga Kubiak, Life Manifesting selfie no.1
Royal Blue VA Gallery
LM Ericssons Väg 1
Telefonplan, Stockholm
The exhibition will be open from August 28 to 30, 2025.
Finissage: Saturday, August 30 at 4 PM.
Visitors: 18+ only!
(Thu.: 3:00 – 6:30 PM, Fri.-Sat.: 12:00 – 6:00 PM)
Life Manifesting Selfie No. 1
Swedish-Polish visual artist and filmmaker, Malga Kubiak, one of the pioneers of selfie photography and film, has been awarded at international exhibitions and festivals.
A scrapbook of life explorations in NY, snapshots of life without prior editing, a snapshot captures the moment without judgment.
Nakedness in art, self-nudity, is it always a nude?
Windows with Views
You are in a gallery, looking at a photo album, thinking they are snapshots of something past. You have no idea that these are windows with views to life in New York, Warsaw, Gothenburg, or Stockholm.
You may not even know how to figure out what you see through the windows in the teleport. Perhaps you have to squint to see how Malga, using self-nudity as a medium, creates a selfie video that captures snapshots of life without any prior editing.
And she is not allowed to do that; she is a woman, and she is not allowed to do anything without self-editing.
Every creative moment, show, exhibition, or performance is a challenge, a test of courage: will she endure the consequences of what she has exposed herself to this time?
You glance at the photos with an untrained eye and think – Malga is naked. Look closely; Malga reveals an incredibly intimate moment of decision-making and testing her courage. Every single time anew.
Squint your eyes – the subject of this exhibitionism is not the body, but the courage to demand life in its entirety, which is presented simultaneously, before your eyes, in a superposition by, to quote a certain Very Important Person,
Malga “Badass” Kubiak.
Text: Anka Nowicka
Exhibition partners: Art Exhibitions in Stockholm | Charity Art Expo | Designer Magazine | HIQU Art&Foto Rynek | PADICglobal | Smultronik
Malga Kubiak is a versatile and controversial artist, born in Warsaw in 1950 and now living in Sweden. Her work spans film, performance, literature, and music.
She began her artistic journey at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, later continuing her education at the Ubbeboda Center School with Prof. Yoshio Nakajima and at the Valand Academy Film School in Gothenburg, Sweden.
As an independent film director, scriptwriter, performance artist, and author, Kubiak has gained international recognition. She has created over 40 film productions and four books. Her film work has been featured at the LGBT Film Festival and venues such as the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. Malga is also a member of the music bands Miss Mess, Freya Paris Fucked Society, and Pink Jupe.
25.08.2025 Stockholm
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