Polish Pavilion at Malta Biennale 2026 features Weronika Zalewska: Archive of Hesitations

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute announced the opening of the Polish Pavilion at Malta Biennale 2026, where Weronika Zalewska will present her video installation Archive of Hesitations, curated by Ada Piekarska. The exhibition will be on view from March 11 to May 29, 2026 in Fort St Elmo, Valletta. The Archive of Hesitations is a two-channel video installation that reflects on how knowledge, memory, and political imagination are shaped in the age of nonstop media. The project emerged from the artist’s childhood memories of watching television with her grandmother in the early 2000s, at a time when her first intuitions about the socio-political were beginning to take shape, and when Poland tangibly shifted to the free market economy and western alliances. The grandmother’s lived experiences remained mostly unspoken—fragmentary, intimate,