Florian Cziesla: Sea Change |

2.10 – 15.11. 2025, Meduza Gallery Koper –
Opening: 2 October 2025, at 6 p.m. |

Curators: Matic Bukovac, Mara Ambrožič Verderber.

In the first days of the coming autumn, on Thursday, 2 October 2025, we invite you to Meduza Gallery in Koper for the opening of Florian Cziesla’s photography exhibition Sea Change.

Florian Cziesla is a photographer, researcher in the field of cultural studies, and translator.

Drawing from a variety of inspirations, ranging from Western philosophical and artistic traditions to Japanese aesthetics, as well as current events and global developments, his photography revolves around notions of ambiguity, liminality, transience, and questions of (be)longing and becoming. Often, the primary impulse is to explore such ideas through the medium of photography, rather than privileging specific motifs, styles, or traditions. Thus, his works tend towards the abstract and the opaque, orchestrating shapes, textures, and the interplays of light and shadow. At other times, inspiration comes from specific spaces, geographies, or socio-cultural configurations and contexts. Occasionally, both motivations coincide in fortunate ways, as is the case here.

The project Sea Change probes these themes and aesthetic inclinations through a series of site-specific, originally analog photographs on 35 mm film, captured at three Slovenian coastal towns, Koper, Izola and Piran, places the author has been drawn to over the years, particularly in the off-season. Moving back and forth between intimate and open compositions, the works invite spectators to linger with these abstract visual meditations, letting them resonate and ponder the underlying notions themselves.

Florian Cziesla holds a master’s degree in media studies from the University of Potsdam. He is pursuing a PhD in cultural studies on the forms and functioning of cultural critique. As part of his PhD project, he has conducted research in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) research scholar. In addition to his photographic work, he occasionally works as a translator, primarily from English into German. He currently lives in Germany and Slovenia.

The exhibition Sea Change is organized in cooperation with the support of the ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. During the exhibition, a public discussion with the well-known Slovenian philosopher Dr. Alenka Zupančič, scientific advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the ZRC SAZU and full-time professor of philosophy and visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, will also be organized.

Content by: Matic Bukovac, MSc