Weronika Banasińska. I Don't Know If I'll Live to Forty

Works by Weronika Banasińska, an artist working mainly in animation, comics and illustration, at Lengrenówka - the Museum of Caricature’s second venue, in the Old Town. It is the latest exhibition in the “Dobre kreski” (Good Lines) series. Across its run, 30 October 2026 - 8 November 2026, it is open on only three days: the Saturday after the Friday opening, and the Saturday and Sunday a week later; dates and times are in the Accompanying events section.

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

The exhibition “I Don’t Know If I’ll Live 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

Not a retrospective, but a collection of works from the last few years, made in a variety of techniques. The museum describes them as a record of self-reflection: thoughts, emotions and discomfort, marked also by the experience of chronic illness. The body has an important place in them - according to the museum, drawing it serves to come to terms with one’s own physicality and to understand and put in order one’s relationship with the body.

The museum calls some of the works a personal diary, but it also announces works of lesser emotional weight, so the exhibition does not keep to a single tone.

Banasińska combines different techniques in her work: she sews, embroiders, makes spatial forms and prints posters in risograph. The museum gives neither the number of works nor a list of objects, so there is no telling which of these techniques you will see on the walls.

Lengrenówka is an adaptation of the former flat and studio of Zbigniew Lengren, the graphic artist and cartoonist associated with the magazine “Przekrój” and creator of the Profesor Filutek cartoon series. The museum calls it an open studio and a space for meetings, education, exhibitions and small artistic events. Expect an intimate interior, not a museum gallery.

Context

Weronika Banasińska 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 works mainly in animation, comics and illustration. She likes risograph printing, in which she makes mostly posters, and her latest project is her own zine, “Nikuland”.

Her 2018 diploma film “Komfort” (Comfort), made at 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, the heroine reaches a mysterious place that turns out to be inside herself, and her excitement turns into anxiety and stress from too many stimuli. The museum writes that the film was shown at international festivals; in 2018 it was in the student film competition of the Animafest festival in Zagreb.

Professionally, she works on the production of animated series such as “Kicia Kocia”, “Rybka Mini Mini” and “Pucio”. She also makes animated music videos and visuals - the museum names Mrozu (“Aura”) and Expo2000 ft. Nath (“QUEENSIZE/KINGSIZE”). Her biography on the Academy studio’s page 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.

“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 museum announced the first edition for April 2023; its exhibition archive for 2026 already lists four editions of the series, and the previous one, Piotr Marzec’s “Horses and Medusas”, has already closed.

Tickets and time

• Where: Lengrenówka, ul. Brzozowa 6/8a - not the museum’s main building at ul. Kozia 11, but its second venue. Brzozowa is an Old Town street between ul. Celna and ul. Mostowa. Opening hours, prices and directions for the building on Kozia are on the Museum of Caricature profile.
• Entrance: the museum describes two ways in, and both involve stairs - from the corner of Brzozowa and Celna down beside the building at Brzozowa 6/8, or from ul. Bugaj up - followed by a small terrace and a gate. If stairs are an obstacle for you, ask the museum before your visit.
• Ticket: the Lengrenówka exhibition has its own ticket, at 2 PLN. The combined ticket with the building on Kozia costs 16 PLN (about 4 EUR) (standard) or 11 PLN (about 3 EUR) (reduced). The museum sells tickets online and at the box office; the price list is on its Visit page.
• Tuesday: the museum offers free admission on Tuesdays, but none of this exhibition’s open days falls on a Tuesday.
• When: three open days preceded by an opening - dates and times are in the Accompanying events section. Lengrenówka’s regular schedule during exhibitions (Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00) does not fully apply to this one: the museum opens it only on the days given, and the Sunday of the first weekend is not among them. If you miss the first Saturday, there is still one more weekend.
• How long: the museum gives neither the number of works nor a visiting time. By our editorial estimate, about half an hour is enough for the exhibition itself - it is one collection of works in the intimate interior of a former flat. If you use the combined ticket to go on to Kozia as well, for the exhibition “Kseruj i rozdawaj!” (Photocopy and Hand Out!), add about 50 minutes, the time the museum gives for that exhibition.
• Who it’s for: people who follow Polish animation, comics and illustration, readers of zines and lovers of risograph printing. Also anyone interested in drawing as a personal record - a diary of the body and of emotions, which is how the museum describes these works.
• Who can skip it: anyone who expects mainly cartoon humour from the museum’s name - the museum announces mostly personal works, about the body, emotions and the experience of chronic illness, though also some lighter ones. Anyone who comes here because of the series “Kicia Kocia” or “Pucio” should know that the museum lists them as the artist’s day-to-day work but does not mention them in its description of the exhibition. Also anyone who cannot come on any of the three days.

Accompanying events

• 30 October 2026, 18:00 - opening at Lengrenówka, ul. Brzozowa 6/8a.
• 31 October and 7 and 8 November 2026, 12:00-16:00 - the exhibition is open to visitors.

See also

• Photocopy and Hand Out! Zines and the Independent Press in Poland During the Transition - the Museum of Caricature’s current exhibition at ul. Kozia 11, on zines and the independent press of the 1980s and 1990s, co-created by the “Dobre kreski” curator Michał Rzecznik and a good match for a visit to an artist who publishes her own zine; the combined ticket covers both venues.
• Alina Szapocznikow / Nairy Baghramian - two sculptors at Zachęta who, according to the gallery, meet in a reflection on corporeality, sensuality and the experience of illness and transience: the same circle of themes as Banasińska’s work, only in sculpture.
• Polish Poster. The Collection - Part 3 - the Poster Museum in Wilanów shows posters from a collection of nearly 36,000 objects, from Young Poland (Młoda Polska) to modern graphic design, a natural next step for anyone whose interest is caught by Banasińska’s risograph posters.

Museum profile: Museum of Caricature.