OP_TALKS | Remaining Without Returning: Meeting and Guided Tour with Jessica Ostrowicz and Philine Pahnke

On September 5 at 6:00 PM, we invite you to OP ENHEIM Gallery for an event accompanying the exhibition “Remaining Without Returning”, the first solo presentation of British visual artist Jessica Ostrowicz’s work in Poland. During the meeting, the artist, together with the exhibition’s curator Philine Pahnke, will speak about the creative process, their joint explorations, and the themes explored in the exhibition – such as memory, intergenerational trauma, home, and identity.

◾ When: 5 September 2025, 6:00 PM
◾ Where: OP ENHEIM Gallery, 1st floor, Plac Solny 4, Wrocław
◾ Admission: Free. Registration required: http://bit.ly/4lfaHv9
◾ Language: Polish and English

The event will begin with an artist-and-curator-led guided tour of the exhibition at OP ENHEIM Gallery, during which Jessica Ostrowicz and Philine Pahnke will present the context of the works on display, discussing their creation process, the materials used, and the themes running through the entire show – memory, loss, heritage, and attempts to reconstruct what has been lost. This will be an opportunity to see the installations and objects up close, as well as to discover the personal layers of meaning present in the artist’s work.

Afterwards, participants will be invited to a conversation with the artist and the exhibition’s curator, Philine Pahnke, held on the 5th floor in the Herz Salon. In this discussion, Jessica Ostrowicz will talk about her artistic practice – from working with everyday objects, through experimental narrative forms, to projects carried out within prisons. The artist will share her reflections on how art can become a form of resistance against forgetting. Philine Pahnke, curator of the exhibition and researcher of memory culture, will speak about the process of developing the show, curatorial strategies for handling subjects with a strong emotional and historical charge, and her exhibition practice in German institutions.

“Remaining Without Returning”, Jessica Ostrowicz’s first solo exhibition in Poland, is a personal and moving story about memory, trauma, loss, and attempts to reconstruct what has been destroyed and lost. The British sculptor, installation artist, and experimental filmmaker confronts the history of her own family as well as the collective experience of absence. Her work touches on personal history and intergenerational experiences – from the unspoken Jewish heritage of her grandfather, through the tragedy of exile and the Holocaust, to contemporary reflections on belonging and the meaning of “home.” The exhibition “Remaining Without Returning” will run until September 28, 2025, at OP ENHEIM.

▪️ Organisers: OP ENHEIM, VOP, KUNSTHAUS DAHLEM
▪️ Honorary Patron: WOMAK
▪️ Patron: SDZLEGAL Schindhelm
▪️ Partners: Freundeskreis Kunsthaus Dahlem, Axel Springer Stiftung, OPEN Reklama Oksana Solnik Krzyżanowska, Heinle, Wischer und Partner Architekten, KEIM
▪️ Media Patrons: SZUM, MINT Magazine, TVP Kultura, NN6T, Rynekisztuka.pl, Format Pismo Artystyczne, Radio Wrocław Kultura, Well.pl, Miej Miejsce, Artinfo.pl