Weronika Banasińska. I Don’t Know If I’ll Make It to Forty

Weronika Banasińska’s exhibition “Nie wiem, czy dożyję czterdziestki” (I Don’t Know If I’ll Make It to Forty), another in the Museum of Caricature’s “Dobre kreski” (Good Lines) series, ran from 30 October to 8 November 2026 at Lengrenówka, ul. Brzozowa 6/8a, and showed a collection of works from the last few years, made in a variety of techniques.

The Museum of Caricature on the exhibition (our translation):

The exhibition “I Don’t Know If I’ll Make It to Forty” is a collection of works made over the last few years, in a variety of techniques. Most of them grow out of a need for self-reflection and an attempt to confront problems that, at different moments in life, seem impossible to get through. They are a record of thoughts, emotions and the discomfort that comes with a sense of being unable to escape one’s own body and mind, marked also by the experience of chronic illness.

The body occupies an important place in these works. Drawing it becomes a way of coming to terms with one’s own physicality, and also an attempt to understand and put in order one’s relationship with it.

The works also serve as a personal diary. They capture states and beliefs that, at a given moment, seemed the only possible truth.

The exhibition will also include works of lesser emotional weight.

What to expect

The museum described the exhibition as a record of self-reflection: most of the works grew out of an attempt to confront problems that, at different moments in life, seem impossible to get through, and captured thoughts, emotions and discomfort, marked also by the experience of chronic illness.

The body had an important place in these works: according to the museum, drawing it was a way of coming to terms with one’s own physicality and an attempt to understand and put in order one’s relationship with it. The museum called some of the works a personal diary, but it also announced works of lesser emotional weight, so the exhibition did not keep to a single tone.

The exhibition was open on three days only: 31 October and 7 and 8 November 2026.

It was an exhibition for people who follow illustration, comics and satirical drawing, the fields to which the “Dobre kreski” series is devoted, and for those interested in drawing as a personal record of the body and emotions, which is how the museum described these works.

Context

Weronika Banasińska works, as the museum wrote, mainly in animation, comics and illustration; she likes to mix techniques in her work, to sew, embroider and make spatial forms. She comes from Radom and lives in Kraków, where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, in the Animation Studio of the Faculty of Graphics. She likes risograph printing, in which she makes mostly posters, and according to the museum her latest project was her own zine, “Nikuland”.

Her 2018 diploma film “Komfort” (Comfort), produced by the Animated Film Studio of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, runs just under ten minutes and combines 2D and 3D animation with puppet animation and plasticine; according to the studio’s description, a girl finds herself in a mysterious place that turns out to be her own inside. The museum wrote that the film was shown at international festivals; the archive of the Animafest festival in Zagreb lists it in the 2018 student film competition.

Day to day, Banasińska works on the production of animated series such as “Kicia Kocia”, “Rybka Mini Mini” and “Pucio”, and she also makes animated music videos and visuals; the museum named Mrozu (“Aura”) and Expo2000 ft. Nath (“QUEENSIZE/KINGSIZE”). Her biography on the page of the Kraków academy’s studio adds work as an animator and character designer for the director Tomek Ducki, online comics for VICE and Korporacja Ha!art, and self-published comic zines and posters.

“Dobre kreski” (Good Lines) is a series of solo exhibitions by illustrators, comics artists and satirical cartoonists who, as the museum puts it, have made a real mark on the book market, in the press, online and in the art world. The series partner is the Museum of Comics Foundation (Fundacja Muzeum Komiksu) from Kraków, and its curator is Michał Rzecznik; the graphic design is credited to Marta Tomiak. On the exhibition page the museum also named the Przekrój Foundation (Fundacja Przekrój) as Lengrenówka’s partner and “Zeszyty komiksowe” as its media patron.

After the show

The exhibition opened with a vernissage at Lengrenówka on Friday 30 October 2026, and it was open to visitors on 31 October and on 7 and 8 November 2026. The same dates were given by the exhibition page, the list of exhibitions, the Lengrenówka page and the museum’s home page, and also by the komiksopedia.pl website.

The exhibition was not extended: the November calendar of events at Lengrenówka listed it on 7 and 8 November, gave no later date and moved on to the next exhibition in the “Dobre kreski” series, Bartosz Zaskórski’s “Postapolska Sp. z o.o”, which the museum announced as the next one at Lengrenówka.

The museum also published an English version of the exhibition page, under the title “I Don’t Know If I’ll Make It to Forty”, in the “Good Lines” series.

At the same time, the Museum of Caricature was showing Photocopy and Hand Out! Zines and the Independent Press in Poland During the Transition.

Museum profile: Museum of Caricature.