The Orłowo Kurhaus was the first seaside spa house in Gdynia. Designed in the style of Baltic boarding houses, it drew from the resort architecture popular on the German coast - like Zoppot (modern-day Sopot). Opened for the summer season of 1907, the wooden building by the Grablowski brothers featured distinctive half-timbered verandas, a large terrace accommodating up to 500 guests, a glazed gallery, and above all - a stunning view and proximity to the sea. Treatment here - in line with the fashion of the time - focused primarily on bathing (in seawater, sunlight, and brine), as well as walks along the beach and cliff. After the war, it lost its original function and became a municipal residential building, partially falling into disrepair. Yet nestled into the Redłowo Headland and set against the Orłowo Cliff, it remains one of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks.

The first exhibition inaugurating Objekt Summer Gallery — a series of summer shows outside its Warsaw headquarters — draws on the genius loci of the site. In the historic pavilion of the Orłowo Kurhaus, we present works that form a kind of small architecture of a contemporary health resort: daybeds and lounge chairs, coffee tables, lamps, objects made of glass, porcelain, soap, and even an outdoor shower installation. These pieces are tied to the idea of rest, the rituals of regeneration and cleansing, and the celebration of boredom. Their fluid forms emerge from the coastal landscape, reinterpreting its attributes. Created through contemplative processes of weaving, shaping, gluing — in a context so deeply rooted in heritage — they reveal themselves as mediums of deceleration, re-grounding the body in space and time.