CURRENT EXHIBITION
Siren Slut is a painterly treatise on desire and the search for fulfilment. Each painting here is a form of rapprochement, a sexual relationship, but at the same time a figure of extreme emotional tension.
EXHIBITIONS 2025
This weekend, April 12-13, we invite you to Raster for the opening of a new exhibition prepared in cooperation with Shanghai-based Vacancy gallery as part of the 2nd edition of the international project of Warsaw’s Constellations galleries.
We present the works of three artists, Reeh Lim (b. 1994), Zbigniew Rogalski (b. 1974) and Jin Ruoxi (b. 1997).
ART FAIRS 2025
The second edition of NADA Villa Warsaw will take place at the historic Villa Gawrońskich in Warsaw, Poland, from May 22–25, 2025. The event brings together a diverse selection of 50 international galleries and art spaces from 24 cities and 15 countries, presenting artists in a collaborative exhibition format that engages with the distinctive […]
EXHIBITIONS 2025
Jishkariani, who was born the same year that Georgia regained its independence, can indeed be brutally honest, and she does combine formalism with morality, but generational traumas are also reflected in her works. The starting material for these pieces is the decorative tapestries that were popular in the Soviet Union, which the artist deconstructs and processes by applying embroidered mottos.
EXHIBITION 2024/2025
The exhibition is titled „Globus Hystericus”. This sumptuous Latin phrase refers to a common psychosomatic disorder—simply a lump in the throat. Whether a frog in the throat or a bent treetop, every crisis has a tangible shape, and every shape has its artist. A healer.
Traditionally, in the first week of December we invite you to Miami, where Raster is taking part in the NADA contemporary art fair. This time we are presenting new paintings by Karolina Jabłońska and Emilia Kina, drawings by Sławomir Elsner, and photographs by Aneta Grzeszykowska. The fair will be held on 3–7 December 2024.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
Karma is a narrative of animalization, but also the personification of bodies reduced to the role of objects.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
In the Raster garden, Olaf Brzeski presents a souvenir family photo. But it takes the original form of a spatial sculptural composition of ceramic and steel. The shape of the ship in the title is suggestive of the female body, and onboard are an astronaut, the astronaut’s mother, a teenage boy, and the head of a dog.
PARIS PHOTO 2024
Raster presents a dialogue between two recognized female artists from two generations: Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) and Aneta Grzeszykowska (b.1974). In their works a creative approach to the photographic medium merges with deep social and existential reflection. Both—Rydet’s photomontages and Grzeszykowska’s subversive self-portraits—focus on the image of the female body and engage in empathetic polemics with its various cultural roles
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Two Lights is a journey into a world of visual sensations. Abstract works by Elsner and Stańczak, shown together for the first time, draw viewers in with their spectacular surfaces, resulting from a complex and time-consuming painting process.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Slavs and Tatars’ new exhibition at Raster Gallery débuts work from Simurgh Self-Help, the collective’s first new cycle of work since Pickle Politics (2016-2023) which was originally launched on the occasion of the artists’ last exhibition at Raster in 2016.
ART FAIRS
NADA Villa Warsaw is a collaborative exhibition featuring 44 international galleries, taking place May 16th to 19th, 2024, at the historic Willa Gawrońskich on Aleje Ujazdowskie.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Since the birth of photography, it has remained in a loving embrace with its older kissing cousin, painting. They serve each other, inspire each other, and swap roles. But this intimate relationship carries a whiff of shame, as the lovers don’t like to appear in public together. The exhibition Constellations tries to break this taboo.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Galaxy is a refreshing collection of new and super-new paintings by Przemysław Matecki. His painterly cosmos constantly draws energy from the tension between light and darkness. This is painting that appears on the surface to be full of contradictions, the main one being the combination of thick paint textures with flat photographic images cut out of magazines and catalogues.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Michał Budny’s art grows and matures with each new exhibition. The current show draws its drama directly from the aura of the garden. The post-minimalism which the artist has been faithful to from the start now takes on surprisingly vital forms.
2023 ART FAIRS
From December 5 to 9, we invite you to the joint presentation of Rastr and the Milan-based gallery eastcontemporary at the NADA MIAMI fair.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
The work of Janek Simon grows out of experiences of travel between diverse cultures, economies and visions of the future, which the artist combines using innovative digital tools and DIY practice. The sculpture series “Meta Folklore”, executed over the past two years, is an artistic, technological and political fantasy—a vision of a new, universal art created using artificial intelligence fed by a database of thousands of non-academic sculptures from all over the world.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
Oskar Zięta’s design practice derives from a modernistic ethos of innovation and technology which drives aesthetics. The point of departure for the project prepared especially for the Raster Sculpture Garden is the figure of the rug-beating frame typically found in the courtyard of a housing complex, from which the artist explores a surprising space between functional garden furniture and an abstract, futuristic spatial forms.
ART FAIRS 2023
The series of photomontages World of Feelings and Imagination, also published in book form in 1979, holds a special place in Rydet’s oeuvre. It is a metaphorical narrative of human life, alluding to the tradition of surrealism but told from an empathetic, feminist perspective.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Summer ticks by slowly at the gallery. The sun circles the garden and the display room in a wide arc, lazily flicking its long tongue.
ART FAIRS 2024
The third edition of the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair will take place on September 7-8, 2024. During this edition, Raster will present works by Sławomir Elsner, Emilia Kina, Dominika Olszowy, and Janek Simon. The works will be displayed in room 104.
2022 art fairs
At this year’s FELIX art fair in Los Angeles Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Paulina Stasik, Karolina Jabłońska and Michelle Rawlings.
2021 art fairs
At this year’s NADA fair in Miami, Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Michelle Rawlings.
EXHIBITIONS 2021
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
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.
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.
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at Not Fair: Janek Simon, Zbigniew Rogalski
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.
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at FAIR: Slavs and Tatars, Zbigniew Rogalski, Janek Simon, Karolina Jabłońska.
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.
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.
Based on the painting: Marcin Maciejowski “Are You Really from the Art World”, 2009, oil on canvas, 130 × 140 cm
The publication dedicated to the work of Zbigniew Rogalski, titled The Second Eye, is a collection of essays by authors including Prof. Maria Poprzęcka, enriched with an extensive album section.
Album Workers, published by the Edward Dwurnik Foundation, in a special collector’s edition with an original print signed and stamped by the artist. There is a choice of two works—Vodka and Death or Only Vodka—from the Workers series.
Signed print by Maciejowski in a limited edition of 25, based on his 2022 drawing I Have Yet to See, in a format of 100 × 70 cm, priced at PLN 3,200 is available at Raster.
Part of the show Simurgh Self-Help is the new merch drop py Slavs and Tatars, including caps, T-shirts and leggings in various colourways, featuring themes and slogans from the show: Simurgh—See More. Merch is available exclusively at Raster during the exhibition, until July 6, 2024.
At the Raster bookstore we recommend a new item: a poster by Marcin Maciejowski based on his own painting Raphael by Maciejowski (The Impression of Possession).
The album Workers — the first publication of the Edward Dwurnik Foundation — is a monographic study of the painting cycle by Edward Dwurnik, comprising 260 works created between 1975 and 1991.
BOOK
Made-Up Story is the first album presenting the works of Karolina Jabłońska (born 1991), one of the most prized and popular artists of the younger generation in Poland. The book contains over 100 reproductions of paintings from the last ten years, including many of the latest works.
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 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.
Works by Janek Simon can be seen at the “Familiar Strangers” exhibition at the BOZAR Art Centre in Brussels. Curated by Joanna Warsza, the exhibition explores diverse contemporary identities in Eastern Europe. On view until 29 June.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The show includes works from Aneta Grzeszykowska’s “Franciszka” series, as well as the debut presentation of her new series, “Negative Blood.” Emilia Kina also takes part in the exhibition, engaging in photography alongside her painting practice.
The façade of the Ringturm skyscraper — the headquarters of Austria’s largest insurance group — has been “dressed” in a monumental image by the artist: a portrait of poet Marcin Świetlicki standing by a bookshelf.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Latest exhibition, Edward Dwurnik: Portrait from Life, brings back the memory of the artist’s collaboration with Andrzej Szczygł—screenwriter and director of documentary films, who passed away in 2024. The opening will take place on Saturday, April 12, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Another exhibition of works from a large private collection is underway at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń.It includes numerous works by artists affiliated with Raster, such as Aneta Grzeszykowska, Karolina Jabłońska, Zbigniew Libera, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemysław Matecki, Wilhelm Sasnal, Janek Simon, and Slavs and Tatars.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
An expansive exhibition by the collective Slavs and Tatars is now on view at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Some of the works in the show, titled Simurgh, premiered at the artists’ show last year at Raster.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Museum Kampa in Prague is showing Visions of the World, featuring works from the Wigam Collection. Among them is Paulina Stasik’s Skin in the Game (2023). The exhibition runs through 30 March.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The first exhibition has opened in the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—an extensive show of works from the institution’s own collection.
An article about Slavs and Tatars has been published in Przekrój, recalling last year’s exhibition of the collective at Raster. We invite you to read it.
ISLAMIC ARTS BIENNALE 2025
A new installation by Slavs and Tatars titled “Mellon محلةMahallah” is on view starting 24 January at the 2nd Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.