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
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.

Dominika Olszowy
Final Push

FELIX Art Fair

Karolina Jabłońska
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.

Slavs and Tatars
Mouth to Mouth

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.

Karolina Jabłońska
Saturday with Karolina Jabłońska

On Satur­day, 17 Decem­ber, at 2:00 pm, we invite you to Raster for a meeting with Karolina Jabłońska, who will lead a tour of her exhibition and present her newly published book Made-​Up Story. For the occasion Karolina has prepared a special limited series of works on paper, which will be offered for sale along with the book.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Terror

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.

Emilia Kina
Janek Simon
Paulina Stasik
NADA Miami

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

Janek Simon
Meta Folklore

Simon col­lec­ted a large database of images from websites like Etsy and Ebay, that problematically categorize folk­loric sculp­tures from around the world. He then used machine-​learning programs, artificial intel­ligence, and 3D prin­ting tech­niques to produce new sculptures that everyone and at the same time no-​one can recognise them­selves in. This way, Simon’s work is a gesture that […]

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Grzeszykowska at the Biennale di Venezia 2022

We are pleased to announce Aneta Grzeszykowska’s par­ticipation in the Venice Bien­nale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Zbigniew Rogalski
Zbigniew Rogalski’s exhibition at the Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki

(Polski) “Rzadko jest tak, że patrząc na obraz widzimy go w całej okazałości. Możemy go zobaczyć albo z dystansu albo z bliska, przyglądając się detalom, próbując wyłapać wzrokiem pociągnięcie pędzla. Aspekt patrzenia jest dla sztuki kluczowy. Możemy dowol­nie przyglądać się dziełom, ale równocześnie nie możemy ich dotknąć. Kiedy jesteśmy ograniczeni brakiem jed­nego ze zmysłów, wtedy nasilają się pozostałe. A kiedy przed­miot, na który patrzymy nie jest zbyt wyraźny, wyostrzamy wzrok.”

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars
Story in The New York Times

The New York Times has published a profile of the col­lec­tive Slavs and Tatars under the inspiring title “These Artists Bring Pic­kles to the Party.” In the article, Valeriya Safronova discus­ses Slavs and Tatars’ publishing, curatorial and artistic initiatives, their begin­nings out­side the art world, and their latest ven­ture testing the boun­daries of art—the Pickle […]

Oskar Dawicki
Men

Oskar Dawicki’s latest work depicts a group of men suf­fering the con­sequen­ces of an unk­nown gravitational crisis. This is usually caused by too abrupt an ascent from the depths or too violent a descent from the heaves into the atmosphere. In pop cul­ture, especially in cinema, such faces of men usually accom­pany some heroic deed […]

Emilia Kina
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.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Zbigniew Rogalski
(Polski) La Pologne?

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Paulina Stasik
Trying to mend wounds

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Paulina Stasik
Puppet show

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Paulina Stasik
Pretending to be invisible

 Stasik evokes mythical Titans and Atlases in female form, but also images tied to children’s fan­tasies or even puppet theatre. The allusion to the sphere of myth, proto-​spirituality and pan­sexuality is also the artist’s response to the con­tem­porary fate of the world, saturated with apocalyp­tic prophecies, visions of climate disaster and war­time chaos.