Landed / On Arriving in Places and in Oneself

Debora Medici-Guetta, an Italian-born photographer based in Los Angeles, is showing work from her “Landed” series - photographs she cuts up and weaves back together by hand - in the Celejowska Tenement House, the Vistula Museum’s branch at 11/13 Senatorska Street in Kazimierz Dolny. The show opened on 12 August 2026; the museum says only that it runs “until the end of November”, which we take as 30 November. The museum publishes no English version, so the English title and the words below are our translation.

Vistula Museum on the exhibition:

This is an exhibition about travel - but not only the kind that leads from one place to the next. It is also a journey into oneself, through memories, experiences, emotions and questions about where our place is and what makes us feel “at home”.

Using photography, collage and visual experiments of her own, the artist builds a story about memory, identity and the relationship between people and the space they live in or arrive at.

What to expect

The technique is the point. The museum describes the pieces as hand-woven photographic works; the artist’s own website explains that she cuts several prints of the same view into pieces and weaves them into a single image. What hangs on the wall is a layered object rather than a flat print, and by her account it shifts with light and viewing angle, so look at each piece from two or three spots. The museum gives no number of works or rooms: expect a compact single-artist show, not a retrospective.

The exhibition was one of the side events of the third IMAGINE Culture without Borders festival, held in Kazimierz Dolny from 12 to 16 August. The opening took place on 12 August 2026 at 16:00, organised by the museum together with the Imagine Culture without Borders Foundation. The festival is over; the work has stayed on.

Thirty minutes is enough for the show itself. The same building houses the museum’s permanent gallery of the Kazimierz artists’ colony, which began with Józef Pankiewicz’s canvases of 1892 and grew through Tadeusz Pruszkowski’s summer painting courses up to 1939. On our reading one branch ticket gets you into both. Together they make an hour and an unusual pairing: the town as painters saw it a century ago, next to big cities as a restless contemporary photographer sees them.

Context

Medici-Guetta was born in Italy, lives in Los Angeles and, according to her website, returned to her own photographic practice in 2010 after almost a decade away from it. The museum dates the “Landed” series itself to 2010, but her website says it debuted in spring 2015; on dates in her own biography we treat her site as the better source. Speedy Gallery in Santa Monica showed “Landed” in late 2021, and its press text, as carried by Kolaj Magazine, describes the same cut-and-weave method applied to city views and to flowers, where a plant portrait turns into an angular abstraction. In 2026 she gave a TEDx talk, “Out of the Shadow”, on identity and the power of a change in perspective.

Tickets and time

The museum announces no separate ticket for this exhibition. Its price list gives admission to the Celejowska Tenement House at 17 PLN standard, 12 PLN reduced and 46 PLN family (two adults with at least two children under 18); organised groups of 15 or more get 15 percent off, and children under 7 go in free. That the branch ticket covers the show is our reading, not the museum’s statement. A ticket bought at the Celejowska House desk also gets you into the Temporary Exhibitions Gallery at no extra charge.

The standard museum pass pays off at the three dearest branches; the reduced pass only at four. The pass costs 50 PLN standard and 45 PLN reduced, covers every permanent and temporary exhibition of the museum once each and is valid for a year from purchase, under the director’s order on admission charges. Standard tickets for the Celejowska House, the Goldsmith Museum and the Natural History Museum come to 53 PLN, so the standard pass saves 3 PLN. Reduced tickets for the same three come to 38 PLN, less than the reduced pass; it pulls ahead only once you add the Kuncewicz House (48 PLN in all).

The free day covers this show too. The museum rotates its free-admission day and announces it on its visitor page with hours and prices by the last day of the previous month; the order on admission charges says it applies to both permanent and temporary exhibitions in every branch. On that day entry is for individual visitors; groups must book.

Opening hours of the Celejowska House: in the summer season (1 April to 30 September) daily 10:00-17:00 (10 AM to 5 PM); in the winter season (from 1 October) daily except Tuesday 9:00-16:00, so October and November run on winter hours. The desk stops selling tickets 30 minutes before closing. The exhibitions are closed on 1 and 11 November; 30 November is a Monday, so the last day of the show is an open day.

Worth it if you care about photography, collage or work in paper, and an easy add-on if you are visiting the colony painters anyway. If you want photographs of Kazimierz itself, Tomek Sikora’s show at the Kuncewicz House is the better choice.

English on site: the museum says nothing about English labels, an audio guide or tours in English for this show. Its visitor page does give the opening hours in English, and the house itself is a two-minute walk from the museum’s main building on the Market Square.

What the press says

Two short reports from Radio Lublin during the festival, neither judging the display.

Radio Lublin (13 August 2026, WeJa, edited by WM): its report on the festival opening stresses that the work came straight from Los Angeles and that the show stands out for both its technique and its message about openness and place; the radio gives the subtitle as “O przybywaniu do miejsc i do siebie”, which reads as “on arriving” - article, in Polish .

Radio Lublin (15 August 2026, WeJa, edited by ToMa): a preview of the festival’s paper-cutting workshop inspired by the artist confirms that the show stays open until the end of November. Its curator, Dorota Seweryn-Puchalska, tells the radio that in a festival about culture without borders this exhibition opens things up a little wider - article, in Polish .

See also

• Vistula Museum in Kazimierz Dolny - the profile with all five branches, prices and the free-day rule; without it, it is easy to see one building and think you have seen the museum.
• Tomek Sikora: To Sit in the Square… - the museum’s other photography show, documentary this time, about the town’s Market Square, in the Pod Różą Gallery at the Kuncewicz House.
• Artist of Life. Wiesław Ochman - paintings by the world-famous tenor at the Kuncewicz House, until 11 November 2026.
• Love the Vistula - painting and an installation about the river at the Natural History Museum, open until May 2027.

Museum profile: Vistula Museum in Kazimierz Dolny .