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Helena Łomnicka is an independent scholar based in Poland whose work focuses on modern spirituality, contemporary politics, and visual culture. With a background in Cultural Analysis, she later obtained an MA in the History of Esotericism. Her recent research explores neo-Marxist approaches to spirituality and examines how modern esoteric discourse is created and transformed on the internet.
helenalomnicka@gmail.com
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Lectures

W Dobie Ezo-Rozwoju Radio Kapitał [2025 PL]

Ghost Stories Post-Office Amsterdam [2025 NL]

What do Ghosts & WitchToks Have in Common?
De Zolder [2025 NL]
Garage Rotterdam [2025 NL]

Mark Fisher: From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism
Time Window [2024 NL]

Witchcraft and Rejected Knowledge Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam [2022 NL]

Published Writing

Reject Modernity, Embrace Dilly-Dally:The Birth of Whimsy Girl  જ⁀➴ ˚₊ ʚིི༏ɞྀ⋆⋆˚࿔ Internet Network Cultures [2026 NL]

Magia w służbie neomarksizmu. Na marginesie “Zygzaków Heksizmu” Tomasza Kozaka SZUM [2024 PL]





Curated Exhibitions

Równonoc-Equinox Nowogród [2025 PL]

ALWAYS CONTAINER, SOMETIMES CONTAINED with Sonia Górecka | Oud House [2025 NL]

Ashes to Ashes Garage Rotterdam [2024 NL]





Grants

Research & Artistic Residencies Programme | Warsaw Observatory of Culture [2026 PL]

Spoiler Young Curators Programme [2024 NL]

CBK Impuls and Verdieping with Antoni Czarczyński 
[2024 NL]






Group Exhibitions

Spiritual Bypassing Window Licker Warsaw [2025 PL]

Occulture Conference Berlin [2025 DE]

Brzuch Wszechświata Window Licker Warsaw [2025 PL]

Hermetic Film Festival Venice [2024 IT]

Marie Louis @ Time Window [2024 NL]

Witchy Clinic @ Roodkapje [2024 NL]

Grey Space in the Middle
[2020 NL]


















Last Updated 24.10.31




SELECTED WORKS 



Reject Modernity, Embrace Dilly-Dally: The Birth of Whimsy Girl  જ⁀➴ ˚₊ ʚིི༏ɞྀ⋆⋆˚࿔
Essay for Internet Network Cultures. On the emergence of the online identity of the Whimsy Girl as the externalized Inner Child who no longer seeks private comfort but implicitly demands a world compatible with non-instrumental existance.







WINDOW LIXKER XIX: W Dobie Ezo-Rozwoju
 Online lecture in Radio Kapitał as part of Spiritual Bypassing Exhibition curated by Milena Soporowska in Window Licker Warsaw. The lecture deals with how modern spirituality has been absorbed into neoliberal self-improvement rhetoric — turning practices like mindfulness, microdosing, and the "o method" into personal optimization checklists.




Równonoc | Equinox
Initiated in 2018 by artsists Alicja Wyoscka and Joanna Rajkowska in collaboration with KGW Nowogród (the Circle of Rural Women from Nowogród) is an experimental artistic event focused on reinterpreting Slavic traditions, especially the celebration of the Autumn Equinox, through multigenerational collaborations between contemporary and traditional artists. The 2025 edition was organised in collaboration with Fundacja Smacznego!.  

Curation: Helena Łomnicka, Alicja Wysocka, KGW Nowogród, Fundacja Smacznego! 
Artists: KGW Nowogród, Texpol Collective
Music: Lotus Reactions, Wesoła Harmonia
Photos and Video: Antoni Czarczyński, Julia Gat








What Do Ghosts and Witch-Toks Have in Common
Against the theories of disenchantment, which argued that with the gradual rise of modernity, religious and magical narratives will loose their relevance, the prevalence of esoteric meanings in the modern world seems to prove the exact opposite. Everybody is in their “healing era”, witches work as TikTok influencers, shamans lead corporate retreats, LSD became revealed as Silicon Vally’s drug of choice, psychedelic experience has been integrated into start-up model, the Kardashians stream live a séance, Polish TV star hosts a cleansing ritual to get rid of demonic entities before starting her show, while spiritual entrepreneurs are launching yet another new “biz”. 

Was disenchantment just a myth? What is the role of non-secular narratives in the contemporary social landscape? Can we still define esotericism as “rejected knowledge”? To answer those questions during the lecture we will discuss the genealogies of what is now called “spirituality”, investigate how do people search for meaning beyond the understanding of reality which was proposed by modernity, analyse how magic is re-shaped by capitalism, explore whether esotericism is still counter-hegemonic and learn what ghosts and WitchToks have in common. 





Magia w służbie neomarksizmu.
An essay published in Magazyn Szum responding to a debate around "hexism" in Polish contemporary art, arguing against the dismissal of magical thinking by neo-Marxist critic Tomasz Kozak. Drawing on Federico Campagna and Mark Fisher, the text explores magic as a realm of ontological subversion. 



Ashes to Ashes 
A curation of publications developed as part of Ashes to Ashes at Garage Rotterdam. The figure of the ghost was approached through the voices of numerous authors who — like mediums — translated spectral tales. Moving across time, the exhibited publications excavated the past, probed the strangeness of the present, and imagined futures yet to come.

Their authors saw reality as permeable: shaped by failed futures, histories that haunted the present, and the ongoing struggle over what was “not yet”. Across these texts, the ghost appeared as ally, cautionary tale, ancestral chronicler, digital shape-shifter, and haunting voice of what was to come.

Set up as an altar, the bookshelf held open a space for the voices of beyond. Visitors were invited to read, skim, and dig around.








Landscape of the Spirit
“Krajobraz Ducha” (eng. Landscape of the Spirit) is an experimental road-documentary directed by Antoni Czarczyński and Helena Łomnicka. The film explores "places of power” - locations known for radiating the natural healing energy of the planet. To grasp this phenomenon, the creators of the film set off on a month-long journey through Poland. It leads them through Polish roads, forests and mountains, but also through the hearts and minds of five experienced guides. Throughout the film the initial conversation around the "places of power" turns out to be an entry point into further reaching discussions on the topic of belief, spirituality and transcendence in the modern era. Besides the numerous conversations the road is filled with symbols, snippets of radio broadcasts and cultural landmarks which all together portray the rich and multidimensional spiritual map of Poland.










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