Alicja Pakosz
VORTICES

The first individual show at Raster by Alicja Pakosz (born 1996) is a nar­rative woven around the figure of a toxic landscape—obsessively retur­ning as a clas­sic motif from the history of pain­ting and also a vision evoking fear, an under­lying anxiety. An image appearing in the least expec­ted moment like hal­lucinations pres­sing under the eyelids. Something morbid and not entirely benign. The artist plays out this story like film frames in a series of pain­tings in two dif­ferent scales and a fully-​formed diorama.

Zofia Rydet
ENDLESSLY DISTANT ROADS

Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), creator of the iconic Sociological Record and the fan­tastic World of Feelings and Imagination, was an artist gifted with a sense for observing the entropy of the world around her. This excep­tional photographic per­spec­tive is revealed in all its power in the series Endles­sly Distant Roads, executed in 1980. In the exhibition at Raster, we present a selec­tion of 40 photographs from this unusual and rarely shown collection.

FELIX Art Fair

Karolina Jabłońska
COLD

Chill. Cold prevails out­side. Snow has even fallen, and when we open our lips, our breath turns into clouds of fog, quic­kly rising in the wintry air. When it blows harder, locks of hair stick to the face. Snow­flakes fall over the head, hair, eyebrows, and then slowly melt under the fading body heat.

NADA Miami

At this year’s NADA fair in Miami, Raster shows works of Emilia Kina, Janek Simon and Paulina Stasik.

Emilia Kina
LE SOIR QUI TOMBE

Does a pain­ting con­ceal more than it reveals? Emilia Kina examines the nature of pain­tings, the illusion imbed­ded in them, but also their physical con­struc­tion. „Le soir qui tombe” is the title of a pain­ting by the Bel­gian sur­realist René Magritte, which has now inspired Kina to create a multi-​phase pain­terly narrative.

RASTER SCULPTURE GARDEN

This year we are thril­led to present works of Olaf Brzeski, Michal Budny and Dominika Olszowy accom­panied by two special Ukrainian guests –
Yuriy Biley and Mar­haryta Rieznik.

WARSAW WINTER ART FAIR

On the week­end of 17–18 Decem­ber 2022 we invite you to the HOP buil­ding in Warsaw (ul. Chmielna 132/134) for the first-​ever Warsaw Winter Art Fair. Among 11 Warsaw gal­leries, Raster will present works by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Dominika Olszowy and Janek Simon. The fair will be held both days from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm.

Oskar Dawicki
MEN

This new project by Oskar Dawicki com­bines elements of per­for­mance and photography and is per­meated, as is a number of previous works of the artist’s, by the mood of existen­tial sorrow. The series of photographs prompts a reflec­tion on the role and position of traditional masculinity. To be a man is today – as the work visually argues – a chal­len­ging task, and a con­dition sub­ject to extreme pressure.

200 REVELATIONS

The new exhibition is devoted to the grey areas of the imagination—religious fervour and visions arising from an excess of metaphysical stimuli or, on the con­trary, from a scar­city of such stimuli and a lon­ging for spirituality in a world dominated by the economics of everyday pragmatism.

HOTEL WARSZAWA Art Fair

Aneta Grzeszykowska
WAVE

In her latest exhibition, Grzeszykow­ska returns to her first work, Album (2005), which serves as a kind of creed for the artist, com­prising photographs with an erased image of the artist. The new Album is a con­tinuation the history of her life, from the birth of her daugh­ter Franciszka.

THE LAST ONE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS
2ND PHOTOGRAPHY SALON

Photography depends on light, and without it images are extin­guished. This simple rule of physics also car­ries a metaphorical sense. How to cope without illuminated per­spec­tives and a clear vision of the future? The theme of the second edition of the Photography Salon at Raster Gal­lery is “exhaustion”, in both a photographic and a human […]

Edward Dwurnik
PINES

Not tulips. Pines. The work of Edward Dwur­nik still abounds in unfamiliar views and mysterious groves. For example Polish Pines, growing in a tight ring on a broad, undulating meadow, their crowns against the back­ground of a fading, dark-​blue sky. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the Edward Dwur­nik Foundation.

Marcin Maciejowski
POLISH ENVIRONS

For this year’s edition of the Warsaw Gal­lery Week­end, we have prepared an individual exhibition of Marcin Maciejow­ski, a distin­guished pain­ter who recovers Raphael’s ‘Portrait of a Young Man’, stolen by the Nazis, but he also polemicizes with the con­servative, statist model of ‘national heritage and sport’ which now forms part of Poland’s ministry of culture.

SCULPTURE GARDEN

(Polski) W ramach pierw­szej edycji rastrowego Parku rzeźby prezen­tujemy program łączący działania per­for­matywne z tradycyj­nymi obiek­tami rzeźbiarskimi. Wśród zaproszonych artystów znajdują się między innymi Dominika Olszowy, Oskar Dawicki i kolek­tyw Slavs and Tatars.

ICE SAINTS

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.

OD PODSZEWKI. SOFT MATTERS

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.

Paulina Stasik
PROTECTRESSES

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.

Karolina Jabłońska, Sophie Thun
ROOM TOUR

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.