current exhibitions
Fulfilling the long-held dream of a garden in the gallery, we invite visitors to a meadow where wildflowers mingle with weeds, day with night, art with the memory of art. At the exhibition can be seen works by Michał Budny, Oskar Dawicki, Edward Dwurnik, Milena Korolczuk, Przemysław Kwiek, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemysław Matecki, Bartek Materka, Cyryl Polaczek, Zbigniew Rogalski, Łukasz Rusznica, Maria Szkop.
UPCOMING Exhibitions
The exhibition of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Zina Isupova, Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, and Michelle Rawlings. The exhibition looks at the other side of the images and reveals the forgotten physical and functional qualities of the canvas and the original role of the fabric — the material from which clothes are made.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
In the third Warsaw edition of the Friend of a Friend project, Galeria Raster, along with The Breeder from Athens and Sophie Tappeiner from Vienna, is presenting an exhibition confronting the nature of pain and discomfort.
exhibitions 2020
Stasik’s paintings essay a return to a lost, supra-sexual unity. The guides along this path are the caretakers from the title: female figures of shamans, seducers and syrens. The exhibition Protectresses is the first individual presentation of the artist’s works in Warsaw.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Adventure is a story full of personal experiences, ruminations on love and death, joy and loss, as well as small but meaningful sensations, like the pleasure from a complement.
2020 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Przemysław Matecki and Paweł Althamer, Olaf Brzeski, Emilia Kina and Zbigniew Rogalski. This year’s edition of the art fair is taking place in a hybrid form – on the online platform and live at Raster.
exhibitions 2020
“Maria Klassenberg” is a performance-installation-exhibition, built around the biography and work of Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten figure of contemporary art. The exhibition accompanying the performance presents the archives of Klassenberg prepared by Aneta Grzeszykowska in cooperation with Jan Smaga.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2020
The heroine of the works of Karolina Jabłońska and Sophie Thun is a young woman, an artist seeking personal liberation and empowerment in art. Room Tour is an exhibitionist inspection of the space in which she creates. A room of one’s own, once a symbol of creative emancipation, now becomes a space of loneliness and melancholy in the time of the pandemic and the social isolation it has imposed.
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Dominika Olszowy takes part in the second edition of the biennial in Riga. Her project consists of two parts presented in the Latvian capital and an installation prepared at Raster.
2020 art fairs
In Moscow we will present the latest works of Zina Isupova and Lev Povzner.
exhibitions 2020
The latest exhibition by Janek Simon at Raster has an open structure. Instead of a traditional, arranged showing of completed artistic objects, we are given a process, a situation suggesting a visit to the studio, where we can observe “live” the changing progress of work on each project.
exhibitions 2020
The presentation of ten of Edward Dwurnik’s works on paper never shown before marks the beginning of the work on an intriguing archive of the artist, in which motifs and stories known from paintings are developed, or the reverse—drawings left by the artist include ideas and emotions later expanded on in his paintings.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Emilia Kina focuses on the margins of depiction, of what is merely a frame for the proper view, what hides it or merely appears. Her relief compositions, painting/screens captivating in their material beauty, divert attention from the digital inflation of images and messages.
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at Not Fair: Janek Simon, Zbigniew Rogalski
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at FAIR: Slavs and Tatars, Zbigniew Rogalski, Janek Simon, Karolina Jabłońska.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Wąbrzeźno, an ordinary little town starting with W, down near the end of the alphabet, in a language where “w” could stand for wszędzie—anywhere, portrayed by the photographer after a decade of systemic changes up to the eve of Poland’s joining the European Union, became a visual synonym for the creeping transformation. Working on colour negatives and alluding to the minimalist poetics of topographic photography, Zieliński created an image of the post-socialist countryside that is the first of its kind, moving and empathetic, constructed from mist and a thousand and one shades of grey.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
At the joint exhibition Equivalent Arrangement Michał Budny and Kajetan Sosnowski meet for the first time. The works of both artists, seemingly abstract, in various ways defy easy classifications of genre. They operate through images and masses but use little painting or sculpting. Their compositions generally finds its origins in an abstract drawing—noted on paper or only conceptualized—as a type of minimalist score, the simplest recording of an idea.
2020 art fairs
Raster at Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemek Matecki, Zbigniew Rogalski, Michelle Rawlings, Janek Simon
EXHIBITIONS 2019
The show “Neither” is Budny’s latest radical statement, this time with a vector aiming upwards, “into space, far from earthly concerns and triviality, from the quotidian and everything that weighs us down and detracts us from what is important.”
2019 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Przemek Matecki, Janek Simon, Slavs and Tatars.
Exhibitions 2019
Joint exhibition of Galeria Dawid Radziszewski and Raster Gallery is the first-ever in Poland for Lev Povzner, a painter from the movement of Russian nonconformists. He works in his own flat and uses domestic materials. Povzner’s elaborate, individual brand of surrealism represents a return to the political potential of the genre. At this exhibition we present a selection of his newest works.
ART FAIRS 2019
Raster with other Warsaw galleries taking part in Friend of a Friend at ART Düsseldorf: Olaf Brzeski.
warsaw gallery weekend 2019
This exhibition designed especially for the Raster space peers out from a dark lining of domesticity. Using hybrid objects and sculptures, disturbing images and mysterious passages, Olszowy creates her own vision of home.
ART FAIRS 2019
Raster at COSMOSCOW fair: Lev Povzner, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Olaf Brzeski, Slavs and Tatars
exhibitions 2019
“Mama” is the latest series of photographs by Aneta Grzeszykowska, who presents her daughter in the activities with silicone sculpture-doll – a hyper-realistic image of the head and body of her mother-artist.
2019 exhibitions
(Polski) Serdecznie zapraszamy na wystawę inaugurującą stałą reprezentację spuścizny Edwarda Dwurnika przez galerię Raster. Wystawa przygotowana została we współpracy z Fundacją Edwarda Dwurnika, założoną przez spadkobierców artysty.
art fairs 2019
Raster at LISTE in Basel: Rafał Bujnowski, Dominika Olszowy, Michelle Rawlings, Janek Simon
exhibitions 2019
In the 2nd edition of the Friend of a Friend project, Galeria Raster invites you to an encounter of three artists from three continents: Flo Kasearu from Estonia, Sachiko Kazama from Japan, and Michelle Rawlings from the United States. Each of them works in a different medium and cultural context, employing an individual, expressive language. In varying ways, all of them negotiate the social and political dimensions of artistic work.
2019 exhibitions
Metaphorically and seasonally, the exhibition 1000 Hands suits the climate of the pre-spring thaw, illuminating a landscape of exhaustion and approaching, intuitively sensed change. In Polish literature this metaphor carries a political dimension. In the works shown together here by Rafał Bujnowski (1974–), Peter Puklus (1980–) and Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), what is vital is the very process of transformation, and the accompanying ambivalence, the temperature of interpersonal relations and the potential of the human hands from the title.
2018/19 exhibitions
“Slippery” at Raster is Karolina Jabłońska’s first individual show in Warsaw. In her paintings girls wear rings and guys wear watches, but the stereotypical logic of dominance is reversed. The heroines here are idols, soothsayers and thieves, and relationships and passions explode as violently as they end, in emotion. Here exaggeration and hyperbole are the rule for both composition and life.
TOKYO EXHIBITION
Joint exhibition of Rafał Bujnowski and Michelle Rawlings is organized by Raster in Tokyo’s Shibuya Hikarie
2018 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Rafał Bujnowski, Zbigniew Rogalski, Slavs and Tatars. Booth #2.04/3.03
warsaw gallery weekend 2018
The post-romantic figure of the drunken artist is fading into the past, leaving behind a landscape littered with hallucinations, depravity, and shattered illusions. This is the story of the intimate ties between contemporary art and vodka. Conceived as a medley of artworks and documentary content, the exhibition features Krzysztof M. Bednarski, Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Oskar Dawicki, Edward Dwurnik, Władysław Hasior, Jerzy Lewczyński, Honorata Martin, Dominika Olszowy, Zbigniew Rogalski, Wilhelm Sasnal, and others.
RASTER EDITIONS
The latest, typo-photo-graphic performance by Aneta Grzeszykowska is an up-to-date political choreography. Using excerpts from her film works, the artist prepared an effective screenprint.
ceramics
Among the latest works by Olaf Brzeski presented at the Adventure exhibition, there is a short series of intimate objects with a decorative and functional character. These are original, ceramic vases with attached ashtrays.
Collector’s offer
Original posters by Edward Dwurnik from the 1980s, which accompanied individual shows by the artist. The expressive style of these works and the spareness of their printing perfectly capture the specific climate of the crisis decade of martial law, strikes, and the dawn of the Polish transformation.
RASTER EDITIONS
The collective’s monograph includes all major art works, publications and lecture–performances from the past ten years, with a special screenprint by Slavs and Tatars in limited edition of 100 copies.
RASTER EDITIONS
The self-portrait was placed on a poster for a production of “The Gorgonowa Affair” at the Stary Theatre in Kraków.
raster editions
“Pałac w Warszawie” by Waldemar Baraniewski, a book from our architectural Warsaw series of publications, with a special photograph by Błażej Pindor in limited edition of 30 copies.
raster editions
A series of black and white photographs showing figures “found” in the shape of branches, made of sticks, grasses, hay.
RASTER EDITIONS
A special edition of gloves for sensitive handling of art in boxes decorated with graphics by Olaf Brzeski.
RASTER EDITIONS
Queer version of Edward Krasiński’s mirror with his legendary Scotch Blue.
raster editions
“Romuald Gutt’s Warsaw” by Błażej Pindor, a book from our architectural Warsaw series of publications, with a special photograph by the artist in limited edition of 30 copies.
job offers
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EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Edward Dwurnik’s works can now be viewed at the exhibitions Poland/Retrospective at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń and Korowód. Edward Dwurnik and the Spectres of History at Herbst Palace.
/ The Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń and the Łódź Museum of Art present the largest exhibitions of Edward Dwurnik’s paintings to date.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
It’s a busy summer for Karolina Jabłońska. The artist’s works can be admired at the Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles and at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Sculptures by Janek Simon from his Polyethnic series are being shown at the 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
An exhibition by the collective Slavs and Tatars at the Kunsthalle in the German city of Osnabrück.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Dominika Olszowy, Przemek Matecki i Zbigniew Rogalski biorą udział w dwóch wystawach dedykowanych współczesnym kontekstom twórczości legendarnego zakopiańskiego artysty Władysława Hasiora.
good news
We are very happy to present latest works of Paulina Stasik that were created after the artist’s recent exhibition at the Raster. Stasik examines relations between bodies and their pictorial and sculptural representations.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Zofia Rydet’s photomontages from the World of Feelings and Imagination series are presented at the most important Asian biennial in Gwangju, Korea.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The exhibition Reality Rifts at BWA Zielona Góra is the second joint exhibition by Przemysław Matecki and Paweł Althamer after the Family at the Jerke Museum recently.
GOOD NEWS
On April 24, 2001, the Raster was founded in the yard of a tenement at Marszałkowska 60 in Warsaw.