Goodbyes and thank yous at Liste

This year Liste Art Fair in Basel has announ­ced that Peter Bläuer, its foun­der and direc­tor over the last 23 years, will retire and hand the fair over to a non-​profit foun­dation while seeking a replacement for his position. 

Halina and Frankenstein

A monograph of Aneta Grzeszykowska.

Family photo values

The works of Aneta Grzeszykow­ska and Zofia Rydet are being presen­ted by London’s Calvert 22 Foun­dation in the exhibition Family Values: Polish Photography Now.

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.

Houses painted and photographed

A unique encoun­ter between Zofia Rydet and Władysław Hasior is presen­ted at Galeria BWA in Tarnów. Under the theme Pain­ted Houses, photographs by the two artists are exhibited as an original record of the visual and material cul­ture of the Polish coun­tryside in the twilight of the 20th century.

Fables for Robots

Olaf Brzeski is the author of set design and costumes for “Fables for Robots” play direc­ted by Agnieszka Olsten.

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.

Who’s behind Raster?

This spring there are six of us wor­king at the gallery.

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.

Art in the Atlantic

For several years Rafał Buj­now­ski has worked on curating a private residen­tial center for artists on Fuer­teven­tura, in the Canary Islands in the Atlan­tic Ocean. The artist’s latest initiative is the exhibition “A Girl and a Gun”, curated by Katarzyna Karwańska especially for the interior of the historic Casa de los Coroneles (from 18th cen­tury) in the nor­thern part of the island of La Oliva.

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.

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. 

(Polski) Najnowsza grafika i książka Oskara Dawickiego w specjalnej cenie

Honorata Martin wins Spojrzenia

Congratulations to Honorata Martin for win­ning one of the most prestigious art con­test in Poland, Spoj­rzenia (Views) – Deut­sche Bank Award

Tokyo Art Book Fair

Raster par­ticipates in the 2017 edition of Tokyo Art Book Fair. It’s the big­gest art book fair in Asia, with a high-​culture schedule of exhibitions, screenings and panels. Around 350 book­sel­lers, publishers, gal­lery pres­ses and artists from all over the world take part in it, with our gal­lery as the only exhibitor from Cen­tral and Eastern Europe.

“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.

Slavs and Tatars book launch

Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2017

An annual festival of con­tem­porary art put together by private gal­leries around the city. The exten­sive program of exhibitions and special events reflects the most exciting cur­rents in the Warsaw art scene today over three activity-​packed days.

“Chrysalis” book launch

The publication is chronic­ling Poland’s most exciting fashion designers and the country’s most ground­breaking fashion trends from the post-​war period to present day.