iza
koczanowska|
koczanowska|
I speculate about other forms of tourism, working on site with biomaterials and sound, and building sculptural installations.
I also design spaces and run workshops.
Based somewhere between the Netherlands and Poland.
Full portfolio available upon request:
izakoczanowska(at)gmail.com
Always curious about new sites, materials and beings, human and more-than-human, to work with.
Speculative Warsaw Old Town Tour
Performative guided walk / artistic research
2026 (ongoing)
Following the structure of a tourist trail, I trace other ways of moving through the history of Warsaw’s Old Town. Shifting away from dominant narratives of destruction and reconstruction, it follows folklore, archaeological remains, urban matter and more-than-human witnesses: a centuries-old waste mound, spiders inside surviving walls, microorganisms inhabiting the stone of Sigismund’s Column, crows, insects, roots and lichens.
Drawing on the morphology of the folktale, historical research is intertwined with legends and their speculative retellings. Repeated, altered and passed on over time, these stories form a fluid palimpsest of place, where human and more-than-human perspectives overlap.
Who gets to narrate the city?
Developed within Traseologia by Marek Krajewski, Fundacja Puszka
Performative guided walk / artistic research
2026 (ongoing)
Following the structure of a tourist trail, I trace other ways of moving through the history of Warsaw’s Old Town. Shifting away from dominant narratives of destruction and reconstruction, it follows folklore, archaeological remains, urban matter and more-than-human witnesses: a centuries-old waste mound, spiders inside surviving walls, microorganisms inhabiting the stone of Sigismund’s Column, crows, insects, roots and lichens.
Drawing on the morphology of the folktale, historical research is intertwined with legends and their speculative retellings. Repeated, altered and passed on over time, these stories form a fluid palimpsest of place, where human and more-than-human perspectives overlap.
Who gets to narrate the city?
Developed within Traseologia by Marek Krajewski, Fundacja Puszka
The Living Wall of Brokenness
Group show
Curated by Pita Kim
Oud House, Rotterdam
2026
The exhibition reflects on the demolition and redevelopment reshaping Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) in Rotterdam. Where redevelopment hides breakdown, the exhibition lingers in cracks and fragments. A grid of poles, recalling the exposed frames of a demolition site, holds light, sound, garments, carpets and performances made from neighbourhood materials, forming a new Living Wall of care and repair.
Photos by Teresa Miarka
Group show
Curated by Pita Kim
Oud House, Rotterdam
2026
The exhibition reflects on the demolition and redevelopment reshaping Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) in Rotterdam. Where redevelopment hides breakdown, the exhibition lingers in cracks and fragments. A grid of poles, recalling the exposed frames of a demolition site, holds light, sound, garments, carpets and performances made from neighbourhood materials, forming a new Living Wall of care and repair.
From biomaterial containing dust, dirt and residues collected in BoTu, I made a carpet as well as fragments attached to a sound installation by Pita Kim. Discarded local matter, collected and reorganised, becomes a temporary architecture and a material image of Brokenness.
Photos by Teresa Miarka
On opposite sides of a corner, a nod to J.J.P. Oud’s housing, where a repetitive system had to bend to the irregular streets, two ESP32 microcontrollers with single LEDs blink in sync. A motion sensor breaks their rhythm whenever someone passes, and a Raspberry Pi with an LCD screen records each passage as a notation of dots and lines.
Technical support by Lukasz Zuber
Photos by Teresa Miarka
Technical support by Lukasz Zuber
Photos by Teresa Miarka