Aneta Grzeszykowska
Negative Make-Up

W serii „Negative Make-​Up” Grzeszykow­ska bawi się kolorowym makijażem. Zdjęcia wykonane w kon­wen­cji oficjal­nych por­tretów do dokumentów to z jednej strony fotografia bardzo schematyczna, skon­wen­cjalizowana, która równocześnie gra z obrazem kobiety w kulturze.

Janek Simon
Polyethnic

Olaf Brzeski
Fly

Jan Smaga
ARTONS

Włodzimierz Borowski’s Artons, from which the title of Jan Smaga’s exhibition is taken, is one of the most intriguing and original series of works in the history of Polish modern art. Their striking materiality and amor­phous, introver­ted struc­ture inspired Smaga, a photographer often wor­king with exhibiting institutions and well-​known for his experimen­tal documen­tation tech­niques, to con­duct his own creative process based on the legen­dary works of Borow­ski. Using photography, Smaga broke the Artons down into elemen­tary par­tic­les, in order to reas­sem­ble them into a new, two-​dimensional whole—a kind of visualization of the cosmos inter­woven in the material of art.

NADA Miami Beach

Raster at NADA Miami Beach: Rafał Buj­now­ski, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Michelle Raw­lings, Janek Simon, Mika Tajima. Booth 3.10

Zofia Rydet
Time of Passing

Bartek Materka
Mathare Materka

Razem Pamoja Foun­dation from Kraków organized Bartek Materka’s exhibition in Mathare Art Gal­lery, located in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenia.

Olaf Brzeski
Tu montreras ma tête au peuple, elle en vaut la peine (“Do not forget to show my head to the people, it is well worth seeing”)

Rafał Bujnowski
Rafał Bujnowski
MAN ON TREE

The works of Rafał Buj­now­ski con­tinually engage in a dialogue with the fun­damen­tal proper­ties of pain­ting. The artist is interested in what pain­tings are essen­tially for, how they func­tion in architec­tural and social space, but also the manner of their creation. These con­siderations have led him to radical solutions and far-​reaching formal restraint. The phenomenon of his pain­ting con­sists in the con­stant balan­cing between represen­tation and the illusion of represen­tation. The pain­ting process, often purely mechanical, leads to sur­prising results and laun­ches another, sym­metrical, process of reading the com­pleted pain­ting, which depends on the variable ligh­ting, distance, and the involvement of the viewer.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Marcin Maciejowski
Michał Budny
Olaf Brzeski
Rafał Bujnowski
Slavs and Tatars
FIAC

Raster at FIAC in Paris: Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Buj­now­ski, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Marcin Maciejow­ski, Slavs and Tatars

Rafał Bujnowski
Man on Tree

Wykonane tuszem kom­pozycje z serii “Człowiek na drzewie” to opisana naj­prost­szymi środkami plastycz­nymi metafora uwikłania, ale też swoistego azylu i ukrycia.

Rafał Bujnowski
MAY 2066

An artist book com­plemen­ting Rafał Bujnowski’s solo show at Zachęta—National Gal­lery of Art

Peter Puklus
THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF A WARRIOR

“The Epic Love Story of a War­rior – A Trilogy and Epilogue” fol­lows the events and con­flicts of the 20th cen­tury seen through the eyes of a Cen­tral and Eastern European family but told through a fic­titious story based on actual events, just trans­for­med by an associative process.

Michelle Rawlings
Clip art rose

Rafał Bujnowski
May 2066. Tondi

A series of abs­tract tondi with dif­ferent variations of a geo­metric, color-​gradient composition.

Janek Simon
Crazy gallery roadtrip

A group of artists led by Jakub de Bar­baro, Agnieszka Polska and Jacek Simon has prepared an amazing holiday project: a traveling gal­lery called Szalona Galeria (Crazy Gal­lery) that will visit small towns all around Poland during a summer road­trip in July and August. In each stop they will set a camp with a pop-​up exhibition and art book­shop, fol­lowed by film projections

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Oskar Dawicki
viennacontemporary

Raster for vien­nacon­tem­porary fair in Vienna: Oskar Dawicki, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Peter Puklus, Zofia Rydet

Zbigniew Libera
Libera wrestling at the theatre

“The battle of good vs. evil” is the title of a per­for­mative action by Zbigniew Libera that was part of a 24-hour-long art project “Long cycle” in the national theatre Stary Teatr in Kraków. Two pairs of wrestlers fought non stop over night on June 5 in the theatre foyer.

Rafał Bujnowski
Bujnowski at Zacheta—National Gallery of Art

“May 2066″ is a three-​chapter story about time.

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars
SOCIETY OF RASCALS

For their second show at Raster, the Slavs and Tatars col­lec­tive presents an instal­lation in the form of a pickle-​juice bar. The title Society of Rascals (Towarzystwo Szubrawców) was drawn from the name of a now-​forgotten literary society of 19th-century Vil­nius, famous for its heavily ironic, caustic displays of satire that stood coun­ter to the self-​important stance of the roman­tics, their sooth­saying and exal­ted engagement in the nationalist discourse. The pic­kled juices served by the artists along with provocative lexical gym­nastics are meant to sug­gest an antidote for the pathos of Polish patriotism, while also expres­sing their own soured regard for any politics based on the oppositional binary of us-versus-them.