Aleksandra Wasilkowska, Transsanatorium, 2025
Exhibition
Poland
A Brief Vacation
May 13 – November 9 2025
Just as tuberculosis reshaped modernist architecture, today’s crises— pandemics, migration, and fatigue—are transforming cities for a regenerative future. How can social infrastructure support health, adapt to microclimates, and connect bodies with ecosystems? The Brief Vacation exhibition in the Polish Pavilion reimagines comfort as care and redistribution. Visitors recline, experience sound, scents, visuals and reflect on hygiene. Inspired by the movie of the same name by Vittorio De Sica and Milan’s Albergo diurno Venezia, Transsanatorium blends functionalism and spirituality, repurposing urban waste—heat, soil, greywater—into resources for renewal, pleasure, and health.
Credits
International participation part of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities.
Curated by: Katarzyna Roj
Architect: Aleksandra Wasilkowska
Organized by: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, BWA Wrocław Galleries of Contemporary Art
International participations
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Sculture piramidali di Lynn Chadwick, nell’allestimento del Grande numero: l’intervento figurativo a grande scala
Veduta notturna del Palazzo dell'Arte ripreso dalla Torre Littoria