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.

Looking at the night sky, away from the city, we can clearly see the stars. Streetlights and urban structures do not obscure their view; boundaries and geographic divisions lose their importance. The Diamonds gaze from above at the transformative processes tied to human expansion and nature, mapping shared directions and intersections.

The exhibition has been built around three interwoven constellations that examine different ways of thinking about the countryside and representing it.

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 constellation of the exhibition 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. 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.

All the Diamonds explores rurality as a space of tensions: between community and exclusion, between the abundance of nature and ecological catastrophe, between memory and its absence. It emphasizes the importance of bonds, community, and creative practices that relate to collective work and the stages of transformation of our rural identity.

Partners: Institutul Cultural Român Varşovia, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană al României

Exhibition open: May 16, 2026 – July 5, 2026
Opening: May 15, 2026