CATALYST: Art as Activism - Any Body Home
Any Body Home features works developed during the Hugo Burge Foundation x Summerhall residency Art as Activism (2024), along with other pieces exploring related themes.
About CATALYST: Art as Activism - Any Body Home
| 31st Jan 2026 to 29th Mar 2026 | |
| Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm | |
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Summerhall 1 Summerhall , Edinburgh South EH9 1PL |
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| This is a free event | |
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“Any Body Home emerges from my ongoing research into the entanglements between feminism and the rights of nonhuman animals. The works examine how shared spaces can feel unsafe—unfolding experiences of fear, interdependence, and the position of each body as “given over to another”*.
Moving from reflections on the paralyzing fear of not being safe and the commemoration of victims of violence in shared spaces, the exhibition turns toward imagining a different reality: one in which any body, human and nonhuman alike, is and feels safe anywhere they go.
To embody this perspective of a species-inclusive utopia, I present a body beyond identification: whether based on gender, species, nationality, ability or any other label.
Any Body Home features works developed during the Hugo Burge Foundation x Summerhall residency Art as Activism (2024), along with other pieces exploring related themes.”
– Kasia Oleskiewicz
* Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
About the Artist
Kasia Oleskiewicz (she/her) is a visual artist, researcher, and activist. She holds an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice (University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland), an MA in Sculpture (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland), and a BA in History of Art (University of Warsaw, Poland).
An antispeciesist and a vegan, her work commemorates victims of the Anthropocene, patriarchy, and domination, excavates nonhuman stories, and envisions posthuman utopias.
She works internationally and is currently moving between Poland, Switzerland, and Scotland.
CATALYST: Art as Activism
Summerhall arts presents a season of four solo exhibitions by artists whose work advocates for social, political, environmental, or cultural change.
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