Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is a publication that captures six painted works from 2024 by Los Angeles– and Berlin–based painter Alexandra Grant, based on texts by Polish writers and poets Anna Adamowicz, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Bianka Rolando, Olga Tokarczuk, and Urszula Zajączkowska. The six participating writers and poets were commissioned by Grant for this body of work in 2021 and early 2022 with the assistance of poetry editor Marcin Orliński and translated from Polish into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

The publication, in a folder emblazoned with Grant's neon sculpture soc som (2024), features six fold-out posters of Grant's painted works and an accompanying booklet of the poems or texts of each author, with an introduction by Marcin Orliński, in Polish and English. 

The writers and poets featured in Grant’s painted Cosmos span generations and levels of recognition — Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature — and they highlight the current Polish writing scene, as each interprets an aspect of the cosmos. Grant created one painting for each text, interpreting them into large-scale works on paper. At 3.9 meters tall and 3 meters wide or larger, these are the largest works she has ever created. Together, the six installed paintings create a chapel space — and quite literally a cosmos — for and of women’s voices. The works were exhibited and photographed at carlier | gebauer gallery in Berlin from November 24, 2024 to January 11, 2025.

Alexandra Grant is a contemporary mixed media artist whose body of work includes painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and publishing. Her art is characterized by an interdisciplinary fascination with language as image, particularly in embodying the written word. Described as a “writer who writes with materials” and “a radical collaborator,” Grant engages with the work of writers, poets, philosophers and linguists including Sophocles, Wisława Szymborska, Michael Joyce, Hélène Cixous, and Keanu Reeves. Grant has exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, and her works are in museum collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, and others. Grant co-founded X Artists’ Books and runs the grantLOVE project, which supports artists and arts education through the sale of art editions.

Marcin Orliński is a poet, literary critic, and editor. He has published six volumes of poetry, his most recent work being Późne Słońce. Other publications include a collection of short prose pieces titled Zabiegi  and a book of literary criticism called Płynne przejścia. He won the Adam Włodek Award in 2016, was nominated for the K.I. Gałczyński Poetry Award “Orpheus” in 2018 and 2024, and was nominated for the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw in 2024. Orliński’s writing has appeared in notable Polish publications such as “Gazeta Wyborcza,” “Rzeczpospolita,” “Newsweek,” “Tygodnik Powszechny,” and “Twórczość.” His poems have been translated into several languages, including English, German, French, Swedish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, and Slovenian. From 2020 to 2024 he served as the deputy editor-in-chief of “Przekrój,” the oldest Polish magazine on culture and society.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as biographies, essays, crime fiction, poetry and children’s books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association. She is a co-translator of Tideline, a collection of poems by Krystyna Dąbrowska, and her most recently published translation is of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, a novel by Olga Tokarczuk.

Anna Adamowicz is a laboratory diagnostician, and poet. Her publications include Wątpia, Animalia, Nebula, zmyśl[ ]zmysł (under the pseudonym Laura Osińska), and Stłuc. Kręgosłup Tytanii Skrzydło. She has been nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award and the international Václav Burian Award, and she won the Wisława Szymborska Award in 2021. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, Czech, Irish, Russian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian.

Krystyna Dąbrowska is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of five poetry books, most recently Miasto z indu (City of Indium). Other publications include Biuro podróży (Travel Agency), Białe krzesła (White Chairs), Czas i przesłona (Time and Aperture), and Ścieżki dźwiękowe (Soundtracks). Dąbrowska won the Wisława Szymborska Award and the Kościelski Award in 2013 and the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw in 2019. Tideline, Dąbrowska’s collection of poetry translated into English by Karen Kovacik, Mira Rosenthal, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was a finalist for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize in 2022 and was longlisted for ALTA’s National Translation Award in 2023. Dąbrowska won a 2024 Pushcart Prize for the poem "Travel Agency," translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Her poems have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Poetry, Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Akzente, and Sinn und Form, among other publications. They have been translated into more than twenty languages, and full-length collections of her work have been published in Italian, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and English. Dąbrowska’s works of translation include the poetry of William Carlos Williams, Thom Gunn, Charles Simic, Kim Moore, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Louise Glück.

Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, and professor at Warsaw University, where she co-founded the Environmental Humanities Center. Her work explores the relationship between human beings and their planetary environment and emphasises the world-making power of literature. She authored short story collections and novels, including Pod Słońcem (Under the Sun) and Dom Oriona (The House of Orion) as well as six poetry volumes, the most recent of which is Glif (Glyph). She also published essays, including Cyborg w ogrodzie: wprowadzenie do ekokrytyki (A Cyborg in the Garden: Introduction to Ecoctiticism) and, as a co-author, Ecopoetics. She was nominated for the Nike Literary Award in 2016 and twice nominated for the Julian Tuwim Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the laureate of the 2018 Szymborska Prize for Psalmy (Psalms). Oxygen, a volume of her selected poems translated by Bill Johnston, was longlisted for the 2016 National Translation Award in the United States. Julia Fiedorczuk has performed at numerous literary festivals in Poland and across the world; her work has been translated into over 20 languages, including English, German, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Chinese and Georgian. She is a columnist of Polityka, a popular Polish weekly and a frequent guest of poetry shows on the Polish radio.

Bianka Rolando is an artist, poet, writer, and professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She also runs a drawing studio at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Artistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz. Rolando’s published books include Absyda (Apse), Abrasz (Abrash), Ostańce (Outliers), Stelle, Pascha, Łęgi (Riparian Forests), Podpłomyki (Flatbreads), Modrzewiowe korony (Larch Crowns), Biała książka (White Book), Rozmówki włoskie (An Italian Phrasebook), and the theoretical and historical books Nasze Zakopane (Our Zakopane) and Mała książka o rysunku (A Small Book about Drawing). In 2019, she received the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award. Selected recent exhibitions include Rol-And-Drop Twin Jackpot at Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery, Ustka, Floraphilia, revolution of plants at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Dobosz (Drummer) at Gdansk City Gallery, Kil i Delfin (Kil and Dolphin) at Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, and Cloudbusters: Intensity vs. Intention at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.

Olga Tokarczuk is a writer, essayist, poet, and screenwriter. She is the author of nine novels and three short story collections, including Podróż ludzi księgi (The Journey of the Book People), E.E., Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times), Dom dzienny, dom nocny (House of Day, House of Night), Anna In w grobowcach świata, Bieguni (Flights), Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead), Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob), and Empuzjon (The Empusium), short story collections Szafa, Gra na wielu bębenkach, and Opowiadania bizarne, and essay collections, including Lalka i perła and Czuły narrator. Her novel Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, won the 2018 International Booker Prize, and her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was shortlisted for the same award in 2019. Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, and her work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

Urszula Zajączkowska is a poet, artist, and professor in the Department of Forestry Botany at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Her scientific research focuses on aerodynamics, plant regeneration after injury, and movement. Zajączkowska’s published works include Atomy (Atoms), minimum, Patyki, badyle (Sticks and Stalks), and Piach (Sand). In 2014, Zajączkowska was nominated for the Silesius Wrocław Poetry Award for her debut publication Atomy (Atoms). In 2016, she won the Best Experimental Film/Animation award at the SCINEMA International Science Film Festival for her film Metamorphosis of Plants. She won the 2017 Kościelski Foundation Award for minimum, and Patyki, badyle (Sticks and Stalks) won the Book Institute’s Golden Rose, a Nowe Książki magazine prize, and a Science Festival award in 2019. In 2021, Piach (Sand) was nominated for the Szymborska Prize.

Ryszard Bienert is a graphic designer who has designed visual identities, books, art books, and photography books since 1996. His awards include a 2023 European Design Award, a 2023 Polish Society of Book Publishers Most Beautiful Book of the Year award, a 2020 Polish Graphic Design award, and a 2018 AIGA 50 Books award. Bienert has worked in tandem with many publishing houses and cultural institutions. He is the founder of 3group graphic design studio.

X Projects, established in 2021, explores the creation of artworks, editions, and ideas outside the confines of traditional book publishing.