Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga
Private Archive

A joint col­lec­tion of photographs to which Grzeszykow­ska and Smaga refer to as their “private archive” is on the one hand a peek into the back­ground of the couple’s artistic prac­tices, on the other—provides an indelible record of life in such a partnership.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Nobuyoshi Araki, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Eva Koťátková
FOREIGN BODIES

Contemporary visual cul­ture treats the body as a plastic material that can be formed, shaped, distor­ted and defor­med as needed or desired. The images gathered for our exhibition are a special col­lec­tion of such bodies sub­jec­ted to various treat­ments and forms of sub­duing and con­trol­ling the body.
The cosmetic masks photographed by Grzeszykow­ska effec­tively reshape the artist’s face. The school les­sons in anatomy in Koťátková’s col­lages results in decon­struc­tion of the holistic unity of body and psyche. Araki’s nudes fran­kly address sexual prac­tices groun­ded in domination.

Michał Budny
Message

The only exam­ple still for sale of the excep­tional early sculp­tural works by Budny that laun­ched the artist’s inter­national career.

Oskar Dawicki
Balance Practice

In a series of self-​portrait drawings the artist depic­ted him­self in his signature blue jacket, pul­ling on one end of a rope. The other end of the rope is in fact real and attached to each drawing’s frame, with dif­ferent objects such as empty vodka bot­tles, ziploc bags with money or candy dan­gling from it and thus set­ting its balance.

Slavs and Tatars
The Inrising

The mythical Per­sian bird replaced the Polish royal eagle in a symbol of solidarity.

Slavs and Tatars
Germans, Slavs, and Tatars

An exhibition by Slavs and Tatars opened at Dresden’s Alber­tinum museum under the melodious title Made in Dscher­many. The main theme is German Orientalism—the ties between German cul­ture and Islam—and the key is in the first four let­ters of the title: DSCH.

Oskar Dawicki
Slavs and Tatars
LISTE

Raster at LISTE in Basel: Oskar Dawicki, Honorata Martin, Slavs and Tatars

Olaf Brzeski
Przemek Matecki
Slavs and Tatars
Zofia Rydet
Tbilisi Art Fair

Raster at Tbilisi Art Fair: Olaf Brzeski, Prze­mek Matecki, Zofia Rydet, Slavs and Tatars.

Slavs and Tatars
Behind reason

Seria wydruków zgłębiająca często zanie­dbywany temat mistycz­nego wymiaru nowoczesności stworzona została w ramach “Beyonsense” – indywidual­nej wystawy Slavs and Tatars w Museum of Modern Art w Nowym Jorku.

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

Using the cosmetic masks refer­red to in the title, the artist creates a gal­lery of denatured, grotesque images. The female face hidden under the mask is sub­jec­ted to clear defor­mation and loses its charac­teristic physiognomic features. The violent nature of advan­ced cosmetic treat­ments leads here to an association with extreme sexual prac­tices, combat sports, and criminal disguise.

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.