16-23 January 2015
A roving art event that moves from city to city every couple of years, the VILLA project works with international art galleries to create a temporary, ongoing art community. This January VILLA touches down in Toronto to present an exhibition of contemporary art at Union Station.
UPCOMING SHOW
The exhibition explores the lyrical and political properties of matter that co-created certain legends of industry – and its demise. Aluminum – a lightweight, non-corrosive metal – appears in a range of forms, both as an artistic medium and an industrial material, a ready-made of sorts. Its artistic legacy is intrinsically connected to the idea of depersonalizing the act of creation.
2014 SHOWS
Mistyfikacja należy do ulubionych metod twórczych Anety Grzeszykowskiej. Artystka konsekwentnie, wręcz obsesyjnie rozkłada na części swój wizerunek, znika bądź podszywa się pod cudze tożsamości. Analiza procesów autokreacji – jednego z fundamentalnych tematów sztuki, ale także podstawowej kwestii dla kondycji dzisiejszego, postmedialnego społeczeństwa – jest również przewodnim motywem najnowszej serii zdjęć.
2014 EXHIBITIONS
This exhibition of Marcin Maciejowski’s latest work is a mature and sophisticated painterly study of compositions – of how combinations of forms, colors, people, situations, and behavior enter into mutual relationships and generate the content of a life.
2014 exhibitions
Wystawa prezentuje fotografie dwójki praskich artystów – Lukáša Jasanský i Martina Poláka – którzy od 1985 roku wspólnie testują konwencjonalność medium fotograficznego. Ich prace czerpią zarówno z tradycji sztuki konceptualnej jak i klasycznej fotografii studyjnej, krajobrazowej czy ulicznej, niezmiennie przy tym uwodząc subtelnym poczuciem humoru. Ludzie podglądani na ulicy i starannie komponowane, choć bardzo codzienne martwe natury – zwyczajność staje się tu przedmiotem wysmakowanej gry. Prowadzi ona do zaskakujących, estetycznych przygód, ale i bardziej generalnej refleksji na temat istoty fotografii, jej relacji do rzeczywistości, funkcji dokumentalnej i kreacyjnej.
2014 EXHIBITIONS
This exhibition takes place in a country whose society has a rather poor opinion of itself. The society is mean, the society is aging, and the force which is driving us toward all this is the progressive stabilization, which seems to have effectively conquered us after years of fighting on various fronts. Life in Poland has become terrifyingly ordinary. The works making up the Society Is Mean exhibition are not essentially asocial, but they do brilliantly render the distance between the individual and the society around him or her. The artists whose works we are presenting give us a wholesale revision of this consensus; the sphere of their confrontation with society is its language, its living space, and its dominant, stereotypical interpersonal relationships.
Exhibitions 2013/2014
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.
EXHIBITIONS 2013
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 2014
Raster at FRIEZE ART FAIR London: Slavs and Tatars.
ART FAIRS 2014
Raster at LISTE 19 in Basel: Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski.
ART FAIRS 2014
Raster at FRIEZE ART FAIR New York: Aneta Grzeszykowska, KwieKulik, Slavs and Tatars.
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.
Plakaty fotograficzne Błażeja Pindora w limitowanym nakładzie.
PORTFOLIO RASTER EDITIONS
A long-awaited album of works by Rafal Bujnowski – one of the most important and recognizable contemporary Polish painters.
PORTFOLIO RASTER EDITIONS
RASTER EDITIONS
Portfolio ośmiu fotografii z najbardziej znanego cyklu artysty. Malownicza Polska nocą jako miejsce nieoczekiwanych zdarzeń i zjawisk wizualnych.
NEW EDITION
The first collector’s portfolio of Kuba Dąbrowski entitled ‘Podlaski niebieski’, an outstanding photographer of everyday life, and one of the most influential artists in the generation of today’s thirty-somethings.
The musical debut of Dorota Masłowska
A 30-minute-long mixture of punk, hip hop and dance music. Sex, dough, problems, contempt.
collector’s edition
A special collector’s edition of Zbigniew Libera “Photographs” book with an original photograph by the artist.
Edition of 30, pigment ink on cotton paper, each signed and numbered on the back.
save the date
Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Dubai in March 2015
Maciej Sieńczyk’s “Adventures on a Desert Island” comic book that was shortlisted for the most important literary award in Poland (NIKE Literary Award) has now been translated into English!
exhibitions abroad
The autumn of 2014 was teeming with good news for Slavs and Tatars: after two critically acclaimed solo shows in Kunsthalle Zurich and Dallas Museum of Art, Raster presented collective’s works at Frieze Art Fair London where their “Love Letter (No. 7)” tapestry was acquired by Tate.
26th – 28th of September 2014
Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2014: a three-day celebration of contemporary art, more than 20 openings at Warsaw’s best galleries, many collateral events held by major Polish art institutions, concerts, performances, and discussions. Join this exceptional event and feel the spirit of Warsaw’s up-and-coming art scene.
SPECIAL OCCASION
Special TV transmission from the Final Judgemet, birthday cake and a panegyric written by Oskar Dawicki – all this and more to celebrate the 55th birthday of Zbigniew Libera.
One of few outdoor installations of 8th Berlin Biennale, “Ezan Çılgıŋŋŋŋŋları” was built into the lawn of picturesque Haus am Waldsee villa. This critically acclaimed work offers an transcultural journey from the past – to the present by restoring the velar nasal ŋ via a computer-generated re-recording of the Turkish call to prayer.
SHOWS ABROAD
A catchily entitled show in Progress Gallery in Paris, ‘Isn’t it Good to be Lost in the Wood’ presents new works on paper by Przemek Matecki and Pierre Ardouvin.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Slavs and Tatars presents exhibition “Long-legged linguistics. The Naughty Nasals” in Arsenal Gallery in Białystok.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Straight lines connecting mole-dots – a unique tattoo created by Rafał Bujnowski
ARTISTS AT WORK
During April 25th-27th Olaf Brzeski will present an interior portrait of the stupendous sword swallower Abbey Hay vel Pepsin as a part of Open Studios organised by International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York