Zbigniew Rogalski
CONSTELLATIONS
Reeha Lim, Zbigniew Rogalski and Jin Ruoxi

This week­end, April 12-13, we invite you to Raster for the opening of a new exhibition prepared in cooperation with Shanghai-​based Vacancy gal­lery as part of the 2nd edition of the inter­national project of Warsaw’s Con­stel­lations gal­leries.
We present the works of three artists, Reeh Lim (b. 1994), Zbigniew Rogal­ski (b. 1974) and Jin Ruoxi (b. 1997).

Edward Dwurnik
Edward Dwurnik: Portrait from Life

Latest exhibition, Edward Dwur­nik: Por­trait from Life, brings back the memory of the artist’s col­laboration with Andrzej Szczygł—screenwriter and direc­tor of documen­tary films, who passed away in 2024. The opening will take place on Satur­day, April 12, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Janek Simon
Karolina Jabłońska
Marcin Maciejowski
Slavs and Tatars
Wilhelm Sasnal
Zbigniew Libera
All of Poland in Toruń

Another exhibition of works from a large private col­lec­tion is under­way at the Centre of Con­tem­porary Art in Toruń.It inc­ludes numerous works by artists affiliated with Raster, such as Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Karolina Jabłońska, Zbigniew Libera, Marcin Maciejow­ski, Przemysław Matecki, Wil­helm Sasnal, Janek Simon, and Slavs and Tatars.

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars in Baden-Baden

An expan­sive exhibition by the col­lec­tive Slavs and Tatars is now on view at Staatliche Kun­sthalle Baden-​Baden. Some of the works in the show, titled Simurgh, premiered at the artists’ show last year at Raster.

Paulina Stasik
Paulina Stasik at Museum Kampa

Museum Kampa in Prague is showing Visions of the World, featuring works from the Wigam Col­lec­tion. Among them is Paulina Stasik’s Skin in the Game (2023). The exhibition runs through 30 March.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Edward Dwurnik
Karolina Jabłońska
Marcin Maciejowski
MSN Warsaw Collection—Home at Last

The first exhibition has opened in the new buil­ding of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—an exten­sive show of works from the institution’s own collection.

Emilia Kina
Janek Simon
NADA Villa Warsaw 2025

The second edition of NADA Villa Warsaw will take place at the historic Villa Gawrońskich in Warsaw, Poland, from May 22–25, 2025.   The event brings together a diverse selec­tion of 50 inter­national gal­leries and art spaces from 24 cities and 15 coun­tries, presen­ting artists in a col­laborative exhibition format that engages with the distinc­tive […]

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars in Przekrój

An article about Slavs and Tatars has been published in Przekrój, recal­ling last year’s exhibition of the col­lec­tive at Raster. We invite you to read it.

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars at Jeddah Bienalle

A new instal­lation by Slavs and Tatars titled “Mellon محلةMahallah” is on view star­ting 24 January at the 2nd Islamic Arts Bien­nale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Gvantsa Jishkariani
TRAUMA PORN

Jishkariani, who was born the same year that Geo­r­gia regained its indepen­dence, can indeed be brutally honest, and she does com­bine for­malism with morality, but generational traumas are also reflec­ted in her works. The star­ting material for these pieces is the decorative tapestries that were popular in the Soviet Union, which the artist decon­structs and proces­ses by applying embroidered mottos.

Zofia Rydet
Zofia Rydet’s World of Feelings and Imagination at MuFo

An exhibition of photomon­tages by Zofia Rydet is ongoing at the Museum of Photography in Kraków, curated by Karol Hordziej.

Dominika Olszowy
Dominika Olszowy in Nowy Złoty

In Wrocław, in the excep­tional space of the Nowy Złoty booth, Dominika Olszowy is exhibiting Sun in the Wash, until 12 January 2025.

Janek Simon
Janek Simon—from Ghana to Szczecin…

The second phase of Max Cegiel­ski and Janek Simon’s project One Man Does Not Rule a Nation is now under­way at Trafostacja in Szczecin.

Emilia Kina
Emilia Kina in the ING Polish Art Foundation collection

Two works by Emilia Kina have joined the col­lec­tion of the ING Polish Art Foun­dation: a photographic dip­tych (Untitled, 2023) and a pain­ted tondo on moul­ded canvas (Untitled, 2024).

Marcin Maciejowski
Maciejowski at Wawel

Two pain­tings by Marcin Maciejow­ski are being shown in the land­mark interiors of the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków in a program of artistic interventions, Two Epochs.

Dominika Olszowy
Marcin Maciejowski
Olszowy and Maciejowski in Dresden

Dominika Olszowy’s sculp­ture Hay Man’s Wet Dream (2020), from the col­lec­tion of MSN Warsaw, is featured at a show of Polish art at the Kun­sthalle im Lip­sius­bau in Dres­den, a dialogue between selec­ted works from the history of Polish postwar art and con­tem­porary works. Also taking part in the exhibition are Marcin Maciejow­ski, Wil­helm Sasnal, […]

Dominika Olszowy
Dominika Olszowy
GLOBUS HYSTERICUS

The exhibition is titled „Globus Hystericus”. This sump­tuous Latin phrase refers to a common psychosomatic disorder—simply a lump in the throat. Whether a frog in the throat or a bent treetop, every crisis has a tan­gible shape, and every shape has its artist. A healer.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Emilia Kina
Karolina Jabłońska
Sławomir Elsner
NADA Miami 2024

Traditionally, in the first week of Decem­ber we invite you to Miami, where Raster is taking part in the NADA con­tem­porary art fair. This time we are presen­ting new pain­tings by Karolina Jabłońska and Emilia Kina, drawings by Sławomir Elsner, and photographs by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska. The fair will be held on 3–7 December 2024.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Aneta Grzeszykowska – Masterclass Lecture

Raster Gal­lery, together with MINT Magazine, organized a meeting with the artist Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, the creator of the exhibition Karma, cur­ren­tly on view at Raster. Fol­lowing the lec­ture por­tion, there was a conver­sation with the artist led by Joanna Piechura from MINT Magazine.

Karolina Jabłońska
Jabłońska at the new headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Karolina Jabłońska’s pain­ting will be on view at the café in the new headquar­ters of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, star­ting on its opening day, October 25, 2024.

Olaf Brzeski
Portrait of a Young Man

Olaf Brzeski
from the series “It Blows My Mind”

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Aneta Grzeszykowska
KARMA

Karma is a nar­rative of animalization, but also the per­sonification of bodies reduced to the role of objects.

Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski
SHIP

In the Raster garden, Olaf Brzeski presents a souvenir family photo. But it takes the original form of a spatial sculp­tural com­position of ceramic and steel. The shape of the ship in the title is sug­gestive of the female body, and onboard are an astronaut, the astronaut’s mother, a teenage boy, and the head of a dog.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Zofia Rydet
Paris Photo
Aneta Grzeszykowska and Zofia Rydet

Raster presents a dialogue between two recognized female artists from two generations: Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) and Aneta Grzeszykow­ska (b.1974). In their works a creative approach to the photographic medium merges with deep social and existen­tial reflec­tion. Both—Rydet’s photomon­tages and Grzeszykowska’s sub­ver­sive self-portraits—focus on the image of the female body and engage in empathetic polemics with its various cul­tural roles

Dominika Olszowy
Dominika Olszowy in National Museum in Warsaw

Works by Dominika Olszowy can be viewed at the exhibition Sur­realism. Other Myths at the National Museum in Warsaw until August 11, 2024.

Dominika Olszowy
Emilia Kina
Janek Simon
Sławomir Elsner
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair

The third edition of the Hotel War­szawa Art Fair will take place on Sep­tem­ber 7-8, 2024. During this edition, Raster will present works by Sławomir Elsner, Emilia Kina, Dominika Olszowy, and Janek Simon. The works will be displayed in room 104.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Olaf Brzeski
Oskar Dawicki
Zbigniew Libera
Brzeski, Dawicki, Grzeszykowska and Libera in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art

The exhibition “Tears of Joy” at Zachęta – National Gal­lery of Art, featuring works by Olaf Brzeski, Oskar Dawicki, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska and Zbigniew Libera, runs until Sep­tem­ber 15th.

Oskar Dawicki
Oskar Dawicki in Elbląg

The individual exhibition by Oskar Dawicki The End of Titles is now on in the unique Gothic spaces of Galeria EL in Elbląg. The artist’s new works per­fec­tly suit the eschatological aura of the church nave. The show runs through 1 September.

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “Just Watercolors (090)”

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “Just Watercolors (100)”

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “Just Watercolors (146)”

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “Just Watercolors (111)”

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “A 4 (Sheet 205)”

Sławomir Elsner
from the series “Just Watercolors (136)”

Sławomir Elsner
Elsner v. Rubens ath the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is presen­ted an intriguing project by Sławomir Elsner inspired by a wed­ding self-​portrait of Peter Paul Rubens, The Honeysuc­kle Bower, one of the master­pieces in the Alte Pinakothek collection.

Sławomir Elsner
Sławomir Elsner, Julian Stańczak
TWO LIGHTS

Two Lights is a jour­ney into a world of visual sen­sations. Abs­tract works by Elsner and Stańczak, shown together for the first time, draw viewers in with their spec­tacular sur­faces, resul­ting from a com­plex and time-​consuming pain­ting process.

Edward Dwurnik
“Vodka and Death” and “Only Vodka”

Album Wor­kers, published by the Edward Dwur­nik Foun­dation, in a special collector’s edition with an original print signed and stam­ped by the artist. There is a choice of two works—Vodka and Death or Only Vodka—from the Wor­kers series.

Karolina Jabłońska
Karolina Jabłońska in Dallas Contemporary

At Dallas Con­tem­porary in Texas, the exhibition Who’s Afraid of Car­toony Figuration? is now under­way. The show, curated by Alison Gin­geras, features pain­tings by Karolina Jabłońska.

Marcin Maciejowski
I Have Yet to See

Signed print by Maciejow­ski in a limited edition of 25, based on his 2022 drawing I Have Yet to See, in a format of 100 × 70 cm, priced at PLN 3,200 is available at Raster.

Slavs and Tatars
“Simurgh Self-Help” Merch Drop

Part of the show Simurgh Self-​Help is the new merch drop py Slavs and Tatars, inc­luding caps, T-shirts and leg­gings in various colour­ways, featuring themes and slogans from the show: Simurgh—See More. Merch is available exc­lusively at Raster during the exhibition, until July 6, 2024.

Karolina Jabłońska
Karolina Jabłońska in Sopot

The exhibition ‘Preserves. Works from 2023–24’ is a testament to and documen­tation of the develop­ment of Jabłońska’s autotheoretical and autofic­tional prac­tices in pain­ting over recent years. The protagonist of Karolina Jabłońska’s latest pain­tings faces social, political, and aesthetic chan­ges that have occur­red in Poland – a coun­try whose politics in recent years have become known for an anti-​feminist agenda and various forms of exclusion.

Slavs and Tatars
Sanft Power

Slavs and Tatars
This not that

Slavs and Tatars
Samovar

Slavs and Tatars
Astaneh (Persian)

Slavs and Tatars
Astaneh (English)

Slavs and Tatars
Astaneh (Ukrainian)

Slavs and Tatars
Stilettos

Slavs and Tatars
Duck’s Blood

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars
SIMURGH SELF-HELP

Slavs and Tatars’ new exhibition at Raster Gal­lery débuts work from Simurgh Self-​Help, the collective’s first new cycle of work since Pickle Politics (2016-2023) which was originally laun­ched on the occasion of the artists’ last exhibition at Raster in 2016.

Karolina Jabłońska
Olaf Brzeski
Paulina Stasik
NADA Villa Warsaw
Brzeski Olaf, Jabłońska Karolina, Stasik Paulina

NADA Villa Warsaw is a col­laborative exhibition featuring 44 inter­national gal­leries, taking place May 16th to 19th, 2024, at the historic Willa Gawrońskich on Aleje Ujazdowskie.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Verbund Collection at the Albertina

Works from Grzeszykowska’s series Untitled Film Stills, inspired by the legen­dary photo series of the same title by Cindy Sher­man, are part of an exten­sive anniver­sary exhibition of the Ver­bund cor­porate col­lec­tion at the famed Alber­tina Museum in Vienna

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Janek Simon
Grzeszykowska and Simon in Tokyo

In cooperation with Tokyo’s Watowa Gal­lery, we presen­ted the first exhibition of works by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska and Janek Simon in the Japanese capital.

Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski at Galeria Entropia

The exhibition by Olaf Brzeski at Galeria Entropia, part of the “The Situation is Perfect” series, is based on the visual exploration of fears tamed by the artist through “compulsive” drawing.

Edward Dwurnik
Emilia Kina
Karolina Jabłońska
Marcin Maciejowski
Michelle Rawlings
Oskar Dawicki
Zbigniew Rogalski
Zofia Rydet
CONSTELLATIONS

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.

Przemek Matecki
Coffins

Przemek Matecki
Me, Cosmos

Przemek Matecki
Untitled

Przemek Matecki
Untitled

Przemek Matecki
Untitled (Music of the Cosmos)

Przemek Matecki
Ruins

Przemek Matecki
Eyes, Lips

Przemek Matecki
She

Przemek Matecki
Infinity of Cosmos, Infinity of Time, Infinity of Art

Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski at Hayward Gallery

A group of sculp­tures by Olaf Brzeski from the series Little Orphans, as well as the iconic Dream – Spon­taneous Com­bustion from 2008, are cur­ren­tly on view in the survey show When Forms Come Alive at the prestigious Hayward Gal­lery in London.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Aneta Grzeszykowska in Yokohama

A monumen­tal show of Grzeszykowska’s latest sculp­tures and photo series Mama and Domestic Animals is under­way at the Yokohama Museum of Art as part of the 8th Yokohama Trien­nale, Wild Grass: Our Lives.

Marcin Maciejowski
Poster “Raphael by Maciejowski (The Impression of Possession)”

At the Raster book­store we recom­mend a new item: a poster by Marcin Maciejow­ski based on his own pain­ting Raphael by Maciejow­ski (The Impres­sion of Possession).

Przemek Matecki
Przemysław Matecki
GALAXY

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. 

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars at EVA International

Slavs and Tatars’s works were on view at EVA International, Ireland’s Bien­nial of Con­tem­porary Art, in Limerick, from 31 of August to 29 October, 2023.

Slavs and Tatars
Azbuka Strikes Back

Sometimes the shapes given to sounds can be more like a prison than a place to call home. Between 1927 and 1991, the lan­guages of 25 mil­lion peoples in the Soviet empire chan­ged alphabets once, twice, and sometimes even three times. This is the story of fugitive sounds in search of shelter… 

Michał Budny
Untitled (Outside Inside)

Michał Budny
Source

Michał Budny
Untitled (Garden Relief)

Michał Budny
Untitled

Michał Budny
Michał Budny
INFLORESCENCE

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.

Edward Dwurnik
Meeting with Małgorzata Czyńska
Premiere of the book “Dwurnik. Art Worker”

We warmly invite you to a meeting with Małgorzata Czyńska on the occasion of the premiere of the book ‘Dwurnik. Art Worker’ on Wednes­day, Decem­ber 13th, at 6:00 PM at the Raster Gallery.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Oskar Dawicki
The Proszek band’s concert at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Join us for the exhibition closing of “Refugees Welcome: Artists for Refugees”. Before Proszek’s con­cert in Paloma on the Vistula, they will present a per­for­mative act within the exhibition space at 5:30 PM on Decem­ber 10. At 6:00 PM, come enjoy Proszek’s con­cert in Paloma on the Vistula.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Edward Dwurnik
WORKERS

The album Wor­kers — the first publication of the Edward Dwur­nik Foun­dation — is a monographic study of the pain­ting cycle by Edward Dwur­nik, com­prising 260 works created between 1975 and 1991.

Edward Dwurnik
Premiere of the “Workers” Album by Edward Dwurnik

We cor­dially invite you to take part in the premiere of the first book published by Edward Dwur­nik Foun­dation, ‘Edward Dwurnik-Workers,’ at the Museum on Pańska, Novem­ber 23, 2023, at 7 pm.

Emilia Kina
Janek Simon
NADA Miami
Raster × eastcontemporary

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.

Zofia Rydet
From the World of Feelings and Imagination cycle. Motherhood

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.

Zofia Rydet
From the World of Feelings and Imagination cycle. Landscapes

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.

Zofia Rydet
Endlessly Distant Roads

The Endles­sly Distant Roads series Zofia Rydet described as “a metaphorical story about life and roads” and added the struc­ture of a quasi-​conceptual typology in which images of empty roads, road signs and cros­ses were juxtaposed.

Zofia Rydet
Little Man

Little Man was Zofia Rydet’s first exten­ded photographic series, which she worked on in 1952–1963. The sub­jects of the photos taken in Poland, and in her travels around Europe and the Middle East (Albania, Bul­garia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Lebanon), are chil­dren, cap­tured in the conven­tion of humanist photography.

Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski in Wrocław and Gdańsk

A new sculp­tural instal­lation by Olaf Brzeski is featured at the epic exhibition “Rococo Mad­ness! Fascination with Rococo in Silesia” in the Four Domes Pavilion at the National Museum in Wrocław (until 14 January 2024). And at the Gdańsk City Gal­lery, Olaf is taking part in the col­lec­tive show “Clouds of Lead” (until 1 October 2023).

Michał Budny
Michał Budny’s work in PEAC Museum in Freiburg

The museum’s col­lec­tion inc­ludes works by Michał Budny, who is also took part in the show at PEAC, “Vom Gesch­mack eines Apfels” [On the taste of an apple].

Janek Simon
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
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.

Dominika Olszowy
Banana Boots

Dominika Olszowy
Cypresses

Dominika Olszowy
Cypress House