CURRENT EXHIBITION
Since the birth of photography, it has remained in a loving embrace with its older kissing cousin, painting. They serve each other, inspire each other, and swap roles. But this intimate relationship carries a whiff of shame, as the lovers don’t like to appear in public together. The exhibition Constellations tries to break this taboo.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Galaxy is a refreshing collection of new and super-new paintings by Przemysław Matecki. His painterly cosmos constantly draws energy from the tension between light and darkness. This is painting that appears on the surface to be full of contradictions, the main one being the combination of thick paint textures with flat photographic images cut out of magazines and catalogues.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Michał Budny’s art grows and matures with each new exhibition. The current show draws its drama directly from the aura of the garden. The post-minimalism which the artist has been faithful to from the start now takes on surprisingly vital forms.
2023 ART FAIRS
From December 5 to 9, we invite you to the joint presentation of Rastr and the Milan-based gallery eastcontemporary at the NADA MIAMI fair.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
The work of Janek Simon grows out of experiences of travel between diverse cultures, economies and visions of the future, which the artist combines using innovative digital tools and DIY practice. The sculpture series “Meta Folklore”, executed over the past two years, is an artistic, technological and political fantasy—a vision of a new, universal art created using artificial intelligence fed by a database of thousands of non-academic sculptures from all over the world.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
Oskar Zięta’s design practice derives from a modernistic ethos of innovation and technology which drives aesthetics. The point of departure for the project prepared especially for the Raster Sculpture Garden is the figure of the rug-beating frame typically found in the courtyard of a housing complex, from which the artist explores a surprising space between functional garden furniture and an abstract, futuristic spatial forms.
ART FAIRS 2023
The series of photomontages World of Feelings and Imagination, also published in book form in 1979, holds a special place in Rydet’s oeuvre. It is a metaphorical narrative of human life, alluding to the tradition of surrealism but told from an empathetic, feminist perspective.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Summer ticks by slowly at the gallery. The sun circles the garden and the display room in a wide arc, lazily flicking its long tongue.
2023 ART FAIR
This time, in the exceptional hotel interiors, Raster will present the latest paintings by Karolina Jabłońska, works by Dominika Olszowy, and objects by Oskar Zięta.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Rogalski’s paintings movingly combine formal invention and finesse with a lyrical message. They are in themselves an intuitive, spiralling journey into the depths, where the image eventually fades but curiosity remains alive.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
On 22 April, we cordially invite you to the opening of a show of new works by Paulina Stasik at Raster Gallery. In her latest paintings and drawings, the artist creates a cosmological map of her own imagination, calls forth images of androgynous bodies, and metaphorically examines their metabolism. The figurative scenes allude to archetypes and myths inscribed in the spiritual, biological and sexual identity of the body.
ART FAIRS 2023
The Polish art market has evolved over the past few years. Despite initial concerns, the pandemic did not stunt the development of the collectors’ community—quite the reverse. We have grown accustomed to cutting the distance and viewing pictures and sculptures on phone screens. Contemporary art has found its way into private homes for good. What […]
EXHIBITIONS 2023
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.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
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.
2023 ART FAIRS
At the Felix Art Fair 2023 Raster presented works of Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Slavs and Tatars, Milena Korolczuk, Zbigniew Rogalski.
EXHIBITIONS 2022/2023
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.
2022 ART FAIRS
At the NADA 2022 art fair in Miami, Raster presented works of Emilia Kina, Janek Simon and Paulina Stasik.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2022
Does a painting conceal more than it reveals? Emilia Kina examines the nature of paintings, the illusion imbedded in them, but also their physical construction. „Le soir qui tombe” is the title of a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, which has now inspired Kina to create a multi-phase painterly narrative.
EXHIBITIONS 2022
This year we are thrilled to present works of Olaf Brzeski, Michal Budny and Dominika Olszowy accompanied by two special Ukrainian guests –
Yuriy Biley and Marharyta Rieznik.
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.
ART FAIRS 2014
Raster at FRIEZE ART FAIR London: Slavs and Tatars.
2014 EXHIBITIONS
This exhibition of Marcin Maciejowski’s latest work is a mature and sophisticated painterly study of compositions – of how combinations of forms, colors, people, situations, and behavior enter into mutual relationships and generate the content of a life.
ART FAIRS 2014
Raster at LISTE 19 in Basel: Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski.
ART FAIRS 2014
Raster at FRIEZE ART FAIR New York: Aneta Grzeszykowska, KwieKulik, Slavs and Tatars.
2014 exhibitions
(Polski) Wystawa prezentuje fotografie dwójki praskich artystów – Lukáša Jasanský i Martina Poláka – którzy od 1985 roku wspólnie testują konwencjonalność medium fotograficznego. Ich prace czerpią zarówno z tradycji sztuki konceptualnej jak i klasycznej fotografii studyjnej, krajobrazowej czy ulicznej, niezmiennie przy tym uwodząc subtelnym poczuciem humoru. Ludzie podglądani na ulicy i starannie komponowane, choć bardzo codzienne martwe natury – zwyczajność staje się tu przedmiotem wysmakowanej gry. Prowadzi ona do zaskakujących, estetycznych przygód, ale i bardziej generalnej refleksji na temat istoty fotografii, jej relacji do rzeczywistości, funkcji dokumentalnej i kreacyjnej.
2014 EXHIBITIONS
This exhibition takes place in a country whose society has a rather poor opinion of itself. The society is mean, the society is aging, and the force which is driving us toward all this is the progressive stabilization, which seems to have effectively conquered us after years of fighting on various fronts. Life in Poland has become terrifyingly ordinary. The works making up the Society Is Mean exhibition are not essentially asocial, but they do brilliantly render the distance between the individual and the society around him or her. The artists whose works we are presenting give us a wholesale revision of this consensus; the sphere of their confrontation with society is its language, its living space, and its dominant, stereotypical interpersonal relationships.
Exhibitions 2013/2014
We are pleased to announce that from now on, Olaf Brzeski will be one of Raster’s represented artists. His first solo show at the gallery, entitled ‘At Heart’, will feature only one artwork – an extreme test of the sculptural genre, as well as a characteristic figure of the impossible, both lyrical and oppressive all at once.
EXHIBITIONS 2013
One Piece Too Little is a treatise on the essential nature of creativity. Dawicki raises the question of where the limits of spectacle are set with regard to art and to life – of the difference between a show and one’s destiny, between representation and recreation, between a work of art and its profanation.
ART FAIRS 2013
Raster’s booth at FRIEZE ART FAIR in London was dedicated entirely to Aneta Grzeszykowska.
ART FAIRS 2013
VIENNAFAIR: Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Przemek Matecki, Slavs and Tatars
EXHIBITIONS 2013
The starting point for the exhibition were works made by Matecki in collaboration with other artists: Tomasz Ciecierski, Zbigniew Rogalski and Paweł Susid.
Raster presents the first solo show of works by Milena Korolczuk (born 1984), an artist originally from Zabłudów, near Białystok in the north-east of Poland who resides today in Oakland, California. Her films and photographs seduce the viewer with their uncanny clarity and maturity. At once emotional and serene, they compose a striking and highly characteristic portrait of a new generation of artists.
ART FAIRS 2013
Raster at LISTE 18 in Basel: Rafał Bujnowski, Milena Korolczuk, Slavs and Tatars.
Rafał Bujnowski’s newest paintings are set in the dark of night. The artist, with his characteristic reticence and precision, constructs paintings using the most basic means – black paint and white chalk.
This exhibition is an examination of the contemporary potential of abstraction – both in life and in art. Through a range of examples across a variety of genres, we observe the tension that is created between objects and materials that are familiar to us from our everyday lives and the language of abstraction.
East, West, Occident, Orient, Europe, Asia… it’s enough to make the most enthusiastic amongst us yawn. For Art Basel Statements, we are proud to present Régions d’etre: a playful look at a climate of being. Too often the region is portrayed through the exclusively dour and dark lens of political and social upheaval. Our story […]
Libera illustrates the presentiments and fears that arise in our considerations of what the future has to hold.
Co-financed with a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Slavs and Tatars’ first solo show in Warsaw takes on the performative use of language.
The exhibition takes its cue from an intense period of artistic and political activity at the end of the 1950s in Japan.
RASTER EDITIONS
A graphic prepared on the occasion of Megalomania – an exhibition by Olaf Brzeski at Raster.
WARSAW SERIES
A monograph of Warsaw’s most famous building – Palace of Culture and Science
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Album with Aneta Grzeszykowska’s loudly-commented series of photographs
SLAVS AND TATARS BOOK
RASTER EDITIONS
Larry nixed, Trachea trixed looks at various attempts to Cyrillicize sounds or phonemes that did not previously exist in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, one of many attempts to extend or embed Soviet influence.
RASTER EDITIONS
RASTER EDITIONS
Limited edition of photographic prosters by Błażej Pindor
PORTFOLIO RASTER EDITIONS
Collector’s edition of MISTER D.’s record.
Rafał Bujnowski book
A long-awaited album of works by Rafal Bujnowski – one of the most important and recognizable contemporary Polish painters.
PORTFOLIO RASTER EDITIONS
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
A work by Zbigniew Rogalski, Tears (2018), has joined the collection of the Palm Springs Art Museum in California.
books
On the occasion of Michał Budny’s exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, a publication devoted to the artist’s latest works has just been released.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Joint paintings by Tomasz Ciecierski and Przemysław Matecki are presented at Galeria Wizytująca in Warsaw.
videos
A short film starring Olaf Brzeski, dedicated to the exhibition Adventure presented at Raster.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
At the Kunstmuseum Luzern, you can see a joint exhibition by Michał Budny and Vittorio Santoro entitled Sculpture / Sculpture.
special offer
Screen print “Milk/Blood” at a promotional price together with a new book by the Twożywo.
art market
Very good results of Edward Dwurnik’s work at the last auction in Desa.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
An individual exhibition by Aneta Grzeszykowska Family Skin will open in Linz, summarizing most of her activities so far and comparing them with the latest works.
exhibitions abroad
The first solo exhibition of Slavs and Tatars in France is taking place at the Villa Arson in Nice.
books
This impressive publication takes a behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s craft, and the photographic portion is supplemented by an interview with the artist by Daniel Spoerri. The book was published in a small print run of 400 copies.