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. 

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.

Slavs and Tatars
“Mouth to Mouth” in Vilnius

After being shown at Ujaz­dow­ski Castle Centre for Con­tem­porary Art, Warsaw, Pejman Foun­dation, Tehran, and SALT Galata in Istal­bul, the collective’s first mid-​career survey “Mouth to Mouth” is presen­ted at CAC Vilnius.

Przemek Matecki
Betty