2025
installation

This installation enters into an artistic and social dialogue with Daniel Gralath Park – a space that connects people, nature and urban memory. Felt lanterns among the trees radiate warm light and colour, acting as symbols of care, community and hope. The work invites reflection: what is truly worth it? It is worth creating together, sharing energy and giving light to one another.

The installation is the result of months of work by the Our Space Foundation and its volunteers, who felted, talked and created together. Every gesture and touch has left a trace in the wool’s texture, forming a fabric of relationships. The Foundation – known in Gdańsk for its projects combining art, therapy and social integration – creates initiatives open to everyone, encouraging collective participation and co-creation.

Daniel Gralath Park, covering more than three hectares, was established in 1970 on the site of the former Holy Trinity Cemetery. Its patron, Daniel Gralath (1708–1767), was a Gdańsk scholar and mayor, co-founder of the first Natural Science Society on Polish soil, and initiator of the Great Linden Avenue. In the context of Worth It / Not Worth It, the park becomes a space where the histories of care, nature and community intertwine with artistic practice. The installation opens a conversation about what connects us – co-creation, mutual support and shared experience – in a place that is not about decoration, but about presence, relationship and being together here and now, among people and nature.

OUR SPACE (NASZA PRZESTRZEŃ) FOUNDATION is a non-governmental organisation that has operated in Gdańsk since 2009. Its mission is to promote active civic engagement and support accessibility to cultural life. The foundation describes its approach as ‘socially engaged handicraft’, which forms part of the broader culture of human rights. Through artistic activity, the foundation creates spaces for discovering and reconstructing identity and social roles. It collaborates with a wide range of cultural institutions in Gdańsk.

For several years, the Foundation has been building a group that engages in local activities in Strzyża and Aniołki. Its leaders are Anna Dukowska and Katarzyna Rajczyk-Bauć, and the group includes Ewa Andrejko, Maria Bernolak-Szczypior, Barbara Biedroń-Klikowicz, Jolanta Dąbrowska-Niekowal, Dorota Kamińska, Joanna Magiera, Lucyna Namiotko, Danuta Smiatacz, Ewa Szalewska-Rosochowicz, Anna Szyndlar, Jagoda Szyszko-Miszewska, and Katarzyna Zaczek-Grodzicka.