Come and join us for an in-conversation between artist Liliana Zeic and co-curator Dr Aleksandra Gajowy, to find out more about the thinking behind our current exhibition, Eating the Sun.
Eating The Sun: Liliana Zeic in-conversation with co-curator Dr Aleksandra Gajowy
Liliana Zeic
23 June 2026
The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research. Since 2020, she has increasingly turned to craft-based methods, primarily developing her own woodwork technique rooted in intarsia. Her artistic practice is grounded in queer feminism and queer ecology, most recently focusing on queer histories through the lens of folk mythology.
Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North. This gap is even more pronounced in discussions surrounding gender and sexuality. A timely programme focused on CEE queer women’s practices offers a vital contribution to a more nuanced understanding of these themes.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
About the Artist, Liliana Zeic
Liliana Zeic (Piskorska) (she/her they/them) – born in Poland in 1988, visual artist, PhD in fine arts. She is a finalist of the Forecast Forum in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2017 and the Audience Award Winner: Views 2019 in Zachęta National Gallery of Art. She has taken part in over 140 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are part of private and public collections (incl. NOMUS New Museum of Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, MS Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź). Based in Warsaw. She creates under the name Zeic since February 2021. Represented by gallery lokal 30.
About the Co-Curator, Dr Aleksandra Gajowy
Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin, and Associate Director of the UCD Centre for Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She holds a PhD (2020) from Newcastle University (UK), which focused on body and queerness in Polish art since the 1970s. Her ongoing research focuses on queerness and lesbianism in Polish visual cultures since the nineteenth century, Central and Eastern European lesbian studies, and queer Jewishness in Poland. Her monograph on lesbian art from Poland is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She is currently editing a special issue of The Journal of Lesbian Studies on Central and Eastern European lesbian studies and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Lesbian Studies and the newly founded SQS: Slavic Queer Studies Journal. Her writing appeared in journals such as Third Text, Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and Art Margins.
Support Credits
The exhibition is kindly supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland, and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin.
Project Arts Centre is proudly supported by The Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
Dates & Times
23 June
6pm
Tickets
Free, booking required
Space
The Gallery
Duration
60 minutes
Genres
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