Kacper Tomaszewski (b. 1999) is a visual artist working with installations, objects, painting, and photography. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In his practice, he explores interspecies relationships and the intimate bonds between humans and other beings. He is particularly interested in forms of care, nurturing, sorrow, and mourning that emerge within these relationships—both on an emotional and material level.

His works delve into what is fragile, abandoned, and invisible—moments of tenderness and loss, marginalized forms of existence, and emotions and presences that escape language and attention.

Since 2024, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Good Death, where he co-creates projects at the intersection of art, education, and mourning culture.

He is the author of solo exhibitions such as: Dream, little dog, dream… II (Galeria El, Elbląg, 2025), Dream, little dog, dream… (Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, 2024), Trace (Galeria Marszałkowska 18, Warsaw, 2023), Lodge (Galleri Blunk, Norway, 2022), and Boots (Galeria Brzozowa, Warsaw, 2019).

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Ursa Major
installation, steel, 2024
picture by Bogna Kociumbas-Kos

The work was exhibited as part of the Narracje #15 festival in Gdańsk, in the Niedźwiednik district, under the curatorship of Zuzanna Mielczarek and Mateusz Włodarek.

Kacper Tomaszewski’s installation is inspired by a decoration that once adorned the building at 7 Góralska Street. The bas-relief depicted the asterism of the Plough, part of the Ursa Major constellation. Originally placed on the block’s gable wall, it disappeared from the estate due to thermal retrofitting measures. The artist spent considerable time gathering information about the ornamentation, navigating the diverging memories of local residents. Only upon finding archival photographic documentation could he confirm that the bas-relief indeed existed and was not simply one of Niedźwiednik’s urban legends.

Tomaszewski’s installation is a spatial interpretation of the Ursa Major constellation. The subtly elongated shapes of the stars echo the form of the previous wall decoration, which has not survived to this day, evoking a “park of stars” open to direct experience and interaction. Some stars are movable, rotating in response to wind or touch. With its dynamic nature, the work appears poised to lift off and ascend skyward. Shadows cast by elements of Ursa Major fall on the building’s gable wall, where the original ornamentation was once displayed. The installation opens up a magical space that invites visitors to uncover Niedźwiednik’s secrets. Tomaszewski’s interactive work, set within the space, changes its appearance depending on the viewer’s position: each step around it reveals new dimensions of this cosmic narrative.

Text by Zuzanna Mielczarek and Mateusz Włodarek.