**“A Small Great World”** Adam Jedynak / Weronika Puchała 23.05–11.06.2026
Opening: 23.05.2026, 18:00
Savchenko Gallery, Savchenko Foundation
in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
The exhibition presents the winners of the Student Graphic of the Year competition, whose work focuses on a childlike way of perceiving reality combined with a contemporary reflection on the world. Through lithography, Adam Jedynak depicts already blurred memories of his childhood and stories of his ancestors. Both motifs are shown against the backdrop of a landscape filled with nature, present in the artist’s family home. Weronika Puchała constructs her own фантастичні visions, where expressive graphic forms intersect with sculptural objects, extending figures beyond the boundaries of drawing. In her work, she draws inspiration from rock art and pop art, giving her compositions a dense and personal character. The whole is unified by a strongly present infantilist aesthetic in both approaches, which the artists use to build their own personal worlds.
Adam Jedynak, born on May 16, 2001, graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gorzów Wielkopolski with a specialization in graphic design in 2021. In the same year, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of Graphic Arts, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2024. He is currently in the second year of his master’s studies at the same faculty. The artist draws inspiration from motifs of nature and childhood, paying particular attention to the place where he grew up. His works are mainly created using various lithographic techniques and algrafia. In his practice, he explores the history of his own family, based on archival photographs and notes, which he symbolically juxtaposes with the omnipresent nature and landscapes close to him and his ancestors. His latest works are a record of a child’s perspective on the world — a view shaped by proximity to nature and family stories about the distant past. By recalling personal experiences and already incomplete memories of people and events, the artist undertakes an interpretation of the factors that shaped his perception at that time.
Weronika Puchała, born in 2002 in Częstochowa, is a graduate of the Zbigniew Herbert First Community High School (STO). In 2021, she began her studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2024 in the lithography studio under Dr. Łukasz Butowski. She is currently continuing her master’s studies at the same faculty. In her work, she combines traditional graphic techniques with object-based experiments, creating works at the intersection of image and sculpture. Her practice focuses on building original, fantastical worlds inhabited by beings with simplified, almost toy-like forms. She draws inspiration from infantilist aesthetics and Japanese mythology, which allows her to approach darker themes, fears, and tensions in a vivid, comic-like form. Through the rhythmic density of figures and extending beyond the flat graphic matrix, the artist gives her visions a physical weight, inviting the viewer to explore a space where decoration collides with unease.