All the Diamonds  is a Polish–Romanian group exhibition that approaches the countryside through multiple perspectives, focusing on cultural, social, and artistic intersections between the two regions. Conceived as a collaborative framework, the exhibition addresses rural contexts that remain peripheral within centralised art circuits, while also foregrounding practices that deliberately situate artistic production in the countryside as a site of sustained work, experience, and collective engagement.

Bringing together three interrelated curatorial strands, the exhibition examines different modes of relating to the rural. 

The first explores imagined representations of the countryside and perceived similarities between Poland and Romania through symbolic and speculative forms, including fantasmatic objects and hybrid structures, such as constructions composed of elements suggesting agricultural machinery, that operate beyond literal representation. 

The second strand engages with narratives of distance and longing, addressing the artistic impulse to return to personal and familial rural histories through the affective frameworks of fernweh and anemoia, understood as nostalgia for places and times never directly experienced. We observe this starting from the exploration of social spaces, agricultural economies, cultural influences, matriarchal traditions, and folklore, to issues related to the fear of ecological collapse, while at the same time admiring the natural wealth of these areas. 

The third layer of the exhibition All the Diamonds foregrounds the rural as a lived and continuous condition, drawing on existing grassroots artistic initiatives and the concept of post-seasonality as a permanent mode of operation within communities. Rather than romanticising the countryside, this perspective emphasises situated, long-term collaborations and everyday exchanges, highlighting how sustained interaction between artists and local contexts actively shapes artistic practice over time.

Partners: Institutul Cultural Român Varşovia