Rafał Bujnowski
Slavs and Tatars
Zbigniew Rogalski
NADA Miami

Raster at NADA Miami: Rafał Buj­now­ski, Zbigniew Rogal­ski, Slavs and Tatars. Booth #2.04/3.03

Olaf Brzeski
Post Tenebras Lux

The set of in-​glaze pain­ted and triple-​fired ceramic plates bears a Latin title: Post Tenebras Lux, which mean “after dark­ness comes the light”.

If I Were the Moon

The post-​romantic figure of the drun­ken artist is fading into the past, leaving behind a land­scape lit­tered with hal­lucinations, depravity, and shat­tered illusions. This is the story of the intimate ties between con­tem­porary art and vodka. Con­ceived as a medley of artworks and documen­tary con­tent, the exhibition features Krzysztof M. Bed­nar­ski, Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Buj­now­ski, Oskar Dawicki, Edward Dwur­nik, Władysław Hasior, Jerzy Lewczyński, Honorata Martin, Dominika Olszowy, Zbigniew Rogal­ski, Wil­helm Sasnal, and others.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Mama

A series of photographs showing the artist’s daugh­ter Fran­ciszka playing with a doll—a life-​size, waist-​up replica of the artist herself.

Rafał Bujnowski
Drunkards

A series of por­traits made on paper kit­chen towels, used by Buj­now­ski to clean his brushes.

Marcin Maciejowski
Have you been a writer for long?

CONDO UNIT

Raster is among nine renow­ned gal­leries from Europe and Middle East to take part in the Condo Unit show in Athens.

BOTTLENECK: THE AVANT-GARDE AND ALCOHOL

Łukasz Gor­czyca and Łukasz Ron­duda discuss art, vodka, and the back­stage of artistic life from the 1960s to the present, in a col­lec­tion of interviews with 14 artists from several generations, from Jerzy Bereś to Woj­ciech Bąkowski.

Zbigniew Rogalski
Lightnings

The theme for the series, a thun­der­storm, weaves together with the matter of the white thread used for the embroidery of light­nings. It was done using embroidery hoops used in traditional handicraft.

Zbigniew Rogalski
Tears

The piece was created in col­laboration with Bytom label who sup­plied the flowing band of wool­len black fabric and produced the embroidery. It refers to the cinema screen and its rol­ling credits, as seen through eyes glassy with emotion.

Slavs and Tatars
Qatalogue

ORNO. Luźne wątki

W ramach kolej­nej odsłony cyklu ORNO, dedykowanego spółdzielni jubiler­skiej, która przez kilkadziesiąt lat użytkowała lokal przy Wspólnej 63 – obecną siedzibę Rastra – prezen­tujemy prace współczesnych artystów wykorzystujące tkaninę – materię ściśle związaną z tzw. sztuką użytkową.

Przemek Matecki
Rafał Bujnowski
Slavs and Tatars
COSMOSCOW

Raster at COSMOSCOW fair in Moscow: Rafał Buj­now­ski, Prze­mek Matecki, Slavs and Tatars

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