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
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.

FELIX Art Fair

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.

Catalogue of Edward Dwurnik’s Works

The Edward Dwur­nik Foundation’s priority project is to create an online catalogue of all Edward Dwurnik’s works on canvas, on paper, and in other tech­niques and media. The catalogue will con­tain a reproduction of every work, along with basic infor­mation about each.

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.

NADA Miami

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

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’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
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 […]

WARSAW WINTER ART FAIR

On the week­end of 17–18 Decem­ber 2022 we invite you to the HOP buil­ding in Warsaw (ul. Chmielna 132/134) for the first-​ever Warsaw Winter Art Fair. Among 11 Warsaw gal­leries, Raster will present works by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Dominika Olszowy and Janek Simon. The fair will be held both days from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm.

Oskar Dawicki
MEN

This new project by Oskar Dawicki com­bines elements of per­for­mance and photography and is per­meated, as is a number of previous works of the artist’s, by the mood of existen­tial sorrow. The series of photographs prompts a reflec­tion on the role and position of traditional masculinity. To be a man is today – as the work visually argues – a chal­len­ging task, and a con­dition sub­ject to extreme pressure.

Dominika Olszowy at the Foksal Gallery

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

Olaf Brzeski
Wanderer

Monumental sculp­ture of a wan­derer made of steel pipes and rods is a story of a great jour­ney, a dream and a riddle of the future created by Olaf Brzeski.

200 REVELATIONS

The new exhibition is devoted to the grey areas of the imagination—religious fervour and visions arising from an excess of metaphysical stimuli or, on the con­trary, from a scar­city of such stimuli and a lon­ging for spirituality in a world dominated by the economics of everyday pragmatism.

Olaf Brzeski, ‘In the Eye’

Olaf Brzeski’s sculp­ture in a private home near the Kam­pinos Forest

(Polski) Charytatywna Aukcja Sztuki Refugees Welcome

Refugees Welcome charity art auc­tion is held on Sunday, May 15th at 5 pm. 

AUCTION AT RASTER’S 2nd PHOTOGRAPHY SALON

We invite you to take part in the col­lec­tors’ event of the season. The cul­minating auc­tion for The Last One Turn Out the Lights: 2nd Photography Salon will be held on 26 April 2022 at 7:00 pm at Raster in Warsaw.

Elsner at the Wiesbaden Museum

Museum Wies­baden in Ger­many is presen­ting the first cross-​sectional individual show of Sławomir Elsner. 

Emilia Kina’s curtains

An individual exhibition by Emilia Kina is taking place at the Szara Kamienica Gal­lery in Cracow. Kina’s pain­tings create an original spatial instal­lation prepared especially for the interiors of an under­ground gallery.