NADA Villa Warsaw

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NADA Villa Warsaw

We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural edition of NADA Villa Warsaw, to take place May 16–19, 2024 at the historic Villa Gawrońskich in Warsaw.
A col­laboration by the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), organized with Michał Kaczyński (Raster), Marta Kołakowska (Galeria LETO), and Joanna Witek-​Lipka (Warsaw Gal­lery Week­end), the initiative marks NADA’s first large-​scale program in Poland, and brings together 44 art gal­leries from around the world in the historic Villa Gawrońskich, a neo-​baroque architec­tural gem.

Janek Simon <br> SIXTEENTH WORLD

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2023

Janek Simon
SIXTEENTH WORLD

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.

Oskar Zięta <br> COURTYARD SCULPTURES

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2023

Oskar Zięta
COURTYARD SCULPTURES

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.

Alicja Pakosz <br> VORTICES

EXHIBITIONS 2023

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 <br> ENDLESSLY DISTANT ROADS

EXHIBITIONS 2023

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.

Podlaski niebieski

RASTER EDITIONS


Podlaski niebieski

The first collector’s port­folio of Kuba Dąbrowski entitled ‘Podlaski niebieski’, an out­stan­ding photographer of everyday life, and one of the most influen­tial artists in the generation of today’s thirty-​somethings.

Desecrator’s Gymnastics

RASTER EDITIONS


Desecrator’s Gymnastics

The edition features three photographs from Dawicki’s large-​scale series, in which he car­ries out a display of appropriating and degrading of one of the most significant figures of con­tem­porary Polish art – the vic­tims of Andrzej Wróblewski’s Executions.

The Messenger Girl

RASTER EDITIONS


The Messenger Girl

The port­folio con­tains 12 photo mon­tages originally featured in the book “What is the mes­sen­ger girl doing”. Libera incor­porates the figures and faces of 20th cen­tury movie stars into the scenery of the Warsaw Uprising.