Slavs and Tatars
Behind reason

A series of prints on the over­looked story of mysticism within moder­nity, made to accompany “Beyonsense”, Slavs and Tatars’ Projects 98 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Olaf Brzeski
Fables for Robots

Olaf Brzeski is the author of set design and costumes for “Fables for Robots” play direc­ted by Agnieszka Olsten.

Olaf Brzeski
The Adventures of the Boiling Head

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Grzeszykowska’s room of her own in Bremen

The Weser­burg modern art museum in Bremen, Ger­many, is showing a number of photos by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska from the Negative Book series in the museum’s “Artists’ Rooms” program.

Olaf Brzeski
Bend of Black Thought

This unique object of pain­ted black steel, attached to the ceiling, evokes a cer­tain state of mind of the artist.

Przemek Matecki
SMALL PAINTINGS

Published in this volume are part of a larger series of several hun­dred works created in 2016–2018 and exhibited in a show at Raster Gal­lery in February–March 2018. They were made using paper reproduc­tions and oil paint on canvas. They are pic­tured here actual size.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
NEGATIVE BOOK

All eighty-​four photographs from the “Negative Book” series by Grzeszykow­ska published in one album.

Przemek Matecki
Artists on Matecki exhibition

Przemek Matecki’s “Small Paintings” exhibition, showing at Raster in February and March 2018, has been the sub­ject of numerous com­men­taries and we chose a few of them for you.

Oskar Dawicki
Armatura polonica utilitate graviditatis

The knight’s armor alludes to the myth of the armed nation and its cur­rent pro-​family policy.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Beauty Mask

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars in Münster

On the occasion of their first solo institutional exhibition in Ger­many, the artists turn to the enig­matic writer and philosopher Johann Georg Hamann.

Olaf Brzeski
Friend of a Friend

“Friend of a Friend” is a con­cept based on the prin­ciple of frien­dly col­laboration between con­tem­porary art gal­leries. It puts together Warsaw-​based spaces as hosts with inter­national guests, and thus aims to establish an alter­native plat­form for com­mer­cial gal­leries to present con­tem­porary art. The group exhibition prepared at Raster will inc­lude works by Breyer P-Orridge (1950, UK) from Zurich’s Galerie Bern­hard, Andrea Kvas (1986, IT) and Nick Bastis (1985, US) from Vienna’s Ermes-​Ermes gal­lery, as well as Olaf Brzeski. 

Przemek Matecki
Przemek Matecki
SMALL PAINTINGS

In his latest series of pain­tings, which he worked on non­stop for the past year or more, Matecki takes on the vast­ness of art. A tan­gible symbol of its fecun­dity is the heavy piles of super­fluous exhibition catalogs and art magazines which the artist brow­ses through in search of inspiring material for his own work. Matecki gives new life to reproduc­tions, trans­for­ming them into sharp, witty miniature oil pain­tings. The treat­ments he applies generate sur­prising effects. Here art is sub­mit­ted to an authorial com­pres­sion and regains its vigor. Often with a single gesture, Matecki extracts the essence from the work of other artists and creates entirely new pain­tings exuding energy and humor, a kind of con­tem­porary, masterly capriccio.

Rafał Bujnowski
Ultra Black

A col­laborative fashion-and-art project between Rafał Buj­now­ski and Bytom, Polish luxury men­swear label. A full range cap­sule col­lec­tion is laun­ched in limited edition to celebrate the encoun­ter of con­tem­porary Polish art and fashion. 

Przemek Matecki
Small Paintings

Matecki gives new life to reproduc­tions from exhibition catalogs and art magazines, trans­for­ming them into puz­zling, witty miniature oil pain­tings, with a format not exceeding a frame of a 20×20 cm square.

Rafał Bujnowski
Windows

A series of 110 x 110 cm and 50 x 50 cm pain­tings from autumn 2017.

Oskar Dawicki
Oskar Dawicki
MARY

Oskar Dawicki, a literary and film figure, an artist known as a prac­titioner of total per­for­mance, presents this time a dys­topian nar­rative: a kind of script, or more precisely a recon­struc­tion, of a per­for­mance originally direc­ted in a dream. The cen­tral figure in his vision is a pregnant woman, the heroine of our times, nourisher of the unborn but also caretaker of the dead. As befits a doub­ting artist, the world of his creation is full of ambivalence.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Michelle Rawlings
Przemek Matecki
Rafał Bujnowski
NADA Miami

Raster at NADA Miami: Rafał Buj­now­ski, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Prze­mek Matecki, Michelle Raw­lings, Mika Tajima. Booth #3.07

Mika Tajima
AIR

Sourced from the mul­tiple architec­tonic and tech­nological realities that exist in Warsaw, the sub­jects of Tajima’s exhibition—machine, book, and body—are unseen. Instead they provide the under­lying tech­nical material for the hardware-​laden sculp­tures and abs­tract woven textiles in AIR. Together the objects intimate a still obstinate and unreadable body in trans­for­mation. Skin per­forated. Mind laced. Input ready. Con­figured for performance—work, pleasure, war. Not yet fully machine.

The exhibition at Raster will be the first individual show of the artist’s works in this part of Europe, premiering Sep­tem­ber 2017 as part of Warsaw Gal­lery Weekend.