We are pleased to announce that from now on, Olaf Brzeski will be one of Raster’s represented artists. His first solo show at the gallery, entitled ‘At Heart’, will feature only one artwork – an extreme test of the sculptural genre, as well as a characteristic figure of the impossible, both lyrical and oppressive all at once.
One Piece Too Little is a treatise on the essential nature of creativity. Dawicki raises the question of where the limits of spectacle are set with regard to art and to life – of the difference between a show and one’s destiny, between representation and recreation, between a work of art and its profanation.
EXHIBITIONS 2013
The starting point for the exhibition were works made by Matecki in collaboration with other artists: Tomasz Ciecierski, Zbigniew Rogalski and Paweł Susid.
Raster presents the first solo show of works by Milena Korolczuk (born 1984), an artist originally from Zabłudów, near Białystok in the north-east of Poland who resides today in Oakland, California. Her films and photographs seduce the viewer with their uncanny clarity and maturity. At once emotional and serene, they compose a striking and highly characteristic portrait of a new generation of artists.
Rafał Bujnowski’s newest paintings are set in the dark of night. The artist, with his characteristic reticence and precision, constructs paintings using the most basic means – black paint and white chalk.
This exhibition is an examination of the contemporary potential of abstraction – both in life and in art. Through a range of examples across a variety of genres, we observe the tension that is created between objects and materials that are familiar to us from our everyday lives and the language of abstraction.
ART FAIRS 2013
Raster’s booth at FRIEZE ART FAIR in London was dedicated entirely to Aneta Grzeszykowska.
ART FAIRS 2013
VIENNAFAIR: Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Przemek Matecki, Slavs and Tatars
ART FAIRS 2013
Raster at LISTE 18 in Basel: Rafał Bujnowski, Milena Korolczuk, Slavs and Tatars.
Libera illustrates the presentiments and fears that arise in our considerations of what the future has to hold.
Slavs and Tatars’ first solo show in Warsaw takes on the performative use of language.
The exhibition takes its cue from an intense period of artistic and political activity at the end of the 1950s in Japan.
The exhibition is effectively the premiere of a collective project by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga that has been conceived in parallel to each artist’s individual projects over the past few years.
Much like his earlier works, Budny’s ‘Żywica’refers to the human presence. It drives and strengthens our sensibility towards the architecture surrounding us.
The exhibition is a journey in time and space, a trip to the East, taken to the rhythm of music.
NEW BOOK
(Polish) Publikacja, zainspirowana dyptykiem fotograficznym “Wolny strzelec” Libery, przybliża różne oblicza tego artysty. Jego liczne i rozmaite portrety mają charakter artystyczny, dokumentalny, publicystyczny, polityczny. Ciało i wizerunek artysty łączą się tu z wieloznaczną rolą społeczną jaką odgrywa.
NEW BOOK
(Polish) Publikacja składa się ze zbioru fotografii schodów prowadzących do galerii Raster oraz zapisu seminarium, do udziału w którym zaprosiliśmy botanika i badaczy kultury wizualnej.
NEW EDITION
The edition features three photographs from Dawicki’s large-scale series, in which he carries out a display of appropriating and degrading of one of the most significant figures of contemporary Polish art – the victims of Andrzej Wróblewski’s Executions.
“Mister Warsaw” is a look at Warsaw’s housing architecture of the 60s through their political, social and artistic context.
A BWA Zielona Góra and Raster publication. Released on the occasion of the show “Raster. School years”, this is an artistic account of the transformation years in Poland. The book presents mostly unpublished work by Łukasz Gorczyca and Michał Kaczyński – photographs, texts and poems.
NEW EDITION
The portfolio contains 12 photo montages originally featured in the book “What is the messenger girl doing”. Libera incorporates the figures and faces of 20th century movie stars into the scenery of the Warsaw Uprising.
NEW BOOK
Grzeszykowska’s series of black and white photographs, Negative Book, is a project which deconstructs positive photography
169 photographs collected for the first time in a single volume are an effect of Libera’s uncompromising, 30-year journey through the ashes of modern civilization.
This famous quote, used during the November Uprising (1831) in Poland and traditionally attributed to Joachim Lelewel, functioned both in Polish and Russian to underline that the Polish uprising was directed against the tsarat authority and not the Russian people.
The protagonists of the First Day of Freedom drop off the roles ascribed to them by history and return to the initial relations and emotions particular to tribal communities.
SPECIAL GUESTS
For one day Raster became a background for Ania Kuczynska’s fashion show
RASTER EDITIONS IN BERLIN
An exhibition of artists’ editions, ephemera and smaller productions that are often capable of integrating delicacy and irony in their execution
A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH THE SWISS DESIGNERS
Public lectures concerning the design, production and distribution of contemporary art-related publications as well as projects from the intersection of editorship and art: art books, photo-books, artistic prints and editions.
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Save the date! On behalf of Warsaw’s contemporary art galleries and art foundations, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to the third edition of WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND between the 27th – 29th of September 2013. We are delighted to host this exciting series of art openings and accompanying events, which includes meetings with well-known European collectors, discussion panels on the burgeoning [...]
SHOWS IN USA
This summer, Derek Eller Gallery, located in New York’s Chelsea, presents “Hair and Skin”, an exhibition curated by Isaac Lyles. The show presents the body in extremes to explore the potential of physical empathy and bodily resonance. Presented alongside works by such distinguished artists as Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois and Günter Brus, is “Holes”
NEW BOOK
The latest Slavs and Tatars book “Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz” is available now at the Raster Gallery bookstore.
NEW BOOK
The long-awaited, monumental monograph on the KwieKulik artistic duo. The book containts over 1700 photographs, scans and transcripts from the artists’ archive – a unique documentation of their 20-year long work.
RASTER IN BASEL 2013
Rafał Bujnowski, Milena Korolczuk and Slavs and Tatars at LISTE