Olivia Business Centre, as part of the Olivia Kultura project, invites you to a meeting with Dorota Karecka and a show of the artist’s photographs from the #ZGDYNI series. We invite you on July 26 at 18:00 to Olvia Sky Club.

During the meeting with the portrait artist Dorota Oza Karecka, we will see photos from the artist’s open-air exhibition entitled from Gdynia”. The photographs depict exceptional people, ordinary-extraordinary people who have been creating the atmosphere of the city for years. The portraits were presented at an open-air exhibition at Grunwaldzki Square in Gdynia in June 2018. Dorota Karecka immortalized several dozen Gdynia residents.

“In Olivia, a meeting place located in the very centre of the metropolis, we want to show the people and original projects that make up our local identity. We host Gdynia in Gdansk, but in our opinion, together we create one, absolutely unique place – says Monika Bogdanowicz from Olivia Business Centre.

The next meeting in the Olivia Kultura series will be an opportunity to get to know inspiring figures of the metropolitan art scene and integrate the Olivia community.

About the photo show:
Dorota Karecka’s photographs depict the people who give Gdynia its character as a city. These are subtle portraits of Gdynia’s personalities, but also a gallery of surprisingly non-obvious figures. The project “#zGdyni – Portraits” is an attempt to answer the question about the origin of the unique atmosphere of Gdynia – a city with a magnetic power to attract individualists and globetrotters. The exhibition consists of 33 photographs of Gdynia residents. They were made by Dorota Oza Karecka. Their heroes are not accidental. The photographer carefully chooses the people of Gdynia she wants to photograph. He is looking for people who give this city its character. That is why the portraits depict different people. There is a family of shoemakers on ul. Abrahama, tailor Wiśniewski from ul. Zbyszek Rybak, a member of the rugby team, and Przemek Dyakowski, a musician. Dorota Karecka’s photographs have a soul, thanks to the relationship she creates with the portrayed people. I get to know these people and their stories. The project “#zGdyni – Portraits” is an open work. Work on it has been going on for a year and a half. During this time, more than 40 portraits of Gdynia residents were created. Some don’t have names. They were given nicknames that stuck with them forever. Some are known for their artistic pseudonyms, some of the names don’t mean much to us. The common denominator of all of them is Gdynia.

Dorota Oza Karecka
She is a portrait photographer who uses historical photographic techniques in her work, which allows her to influence the images at every stage of their creation. Dorota Karecka’s photographs have a soul, both thanks to the silver-plated materials and the relationship she creates with the portrayed person.

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