Exhibition Closing and Performance “LUXA”

On the evening of Saturday, February 22, 2025, we invite you to two events: the performance “LUXA” by HOTELOKO Company featuring Agata Życzkowska and Karina Szutko, and the closing of Karina Szutko’s exhibition “ROcK SMOKA.”

These are the next events within the project “Kalendarium Fundacji NOWA FALA i Kolektywu HOTELOKO 2025.”

February 22, 2025 / 7:00 PM / Praga-Południe Cultural Promotion Center, ul. Podskarbińska 2, Warsaw / Free admission

The event is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw under the program “Warsaw Culture – works, projects, events.”
Project: “Calendar of the NEW WAVE Foundation and HOTELOKO Collective 2025”
Produced by: NEW WAVE Foundation

PERFORMANCE: „LUXA” / Agata Życzkowska / Karina Szutko

HOTELOKO Company
Concept and choreography: Agata Życzkowska
Co-choreography: Karina Szutko
Texts and performance: Agata Życzkowska / Karina Szutko
Direction, dramaturgy, costumes, video projections, musical arrangement: Agata Życzkowska
The performance was created as part of the 2023 artistic grant from the City of Warsaw.

Selected for the Polish Dance Platform 2024.

“LUXA” is a performance exploring luxury objects dedicated to girls and women, while also questioning what can be perceived as luxury in the appropriate social, movement, and philosophical context. For contemporary women, luxury can be something immaterial, such as freedom of choice, access to knowledge, or the possibility of being oneself in harmony with one’s needs and values.
It is an attempt to approach the topic of luxury through the prism of interpersonal relationships in the world of pop culture. The idea is to confront our identity through the mass desires and pursuits of men. This includes many items considered female attributes, such as handbags or jewelry with precious stones, or expensive, exclusive cosmetics and perfumes. Luxury can be a jade of bottle-green color—a stone that nature provides naturally. It can also be cocoa beans, once more valuable than gold, and today increasing in value year after year. Luxury has many faces. What else can be luxury for today’s woman in Poland, in Europe?

Closing of Karina Szutko’s Exhibition
ROcK SMOKA / Welcome to the jungle!

We invite you to the closing of Karina Szutko’s exhibition. ROcK SMOKA is a series of works dedicated to one of the most mysterious and powerful creatures. However, dragons – omnipresent in mythology, legends, and pop culture – are increasingly stripped of their natural habitat day by day. They try to find their place in the 21st century. Overwhelmed by the city’s pace, they seek a new rhythm – a melody to show them the way. I want to break free!

The contemporary dragon lives in a disenchanted era – a world where magic (a kind of magic), mysticism, and harmony with nature give way to rationality, technology, and consumerism. Yet the essence of life is a return to authenticity – understanding oneself, one’s desires, and the rhythm that gives meaning to existence. Dragons, like people, feel alienated. Overwhelmed by the excess stimuli of modern life, they lose contact with what is intuitive and true. Will technology destroy what is primal, or will it create space for a new dance, a new harmony?

ROcK SMOKA is a clash between the age of technological noise and the awakening of our inner “self” – wild, free, and unrestrained, smells like teen spirit. It is a chance to discover your own dragon because each of us has one inside. We hear the cry of rebellion, the roar of the dragon. There is no place for falsehood in this sound. Will we manage to tune in to the same frequency again? Hear each other? Dance to one melody? Shout out who we really are? Take off our headphones for a split second and approach the zone we always run away from? Is this the end of ROcK SMOKA, or just the beginning?

Let us listen to the breath of the dragon, the breath of life. Isn’t it about facing the unknown, asking the world: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”

Exhibition open February 8–25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM