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 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

Dominika Olszowy
Rock-bottom Cookie

Karolina Jabłońska
Pink T-shirt

Karolina Jabłońska
Chamomile

Karolina Jabłońska
Storm

Karolina Jabłońska
Yellow Landscape

Dominika Olszowy
Michał Budny
Raster Garden in Radom

Three Steps into the Clouds, an exhibition of sculp­tural works by Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny and Dominika Olszowy, is open at the Elek­trow­nia Mazovian Centre for Con­tem­porary Art in Radom until October 29, 2023.

Zofia Rydet
Zofia Rydet at Artissima

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. 

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Raster in Milan

From 11 to 23 April, we will present works by Olaf Brzeski and Aneta Grzeszykow­ska as part of Preview Milan #7. The show, prepared in con­junc­tion with Art­beat from Tbilisi, Tem­nikova & Kasela from Tal­linn, and Voloshyn Gal­lery from Kyiv, will be held in the stylish interiors of the villa at Via Fatebenefratelli 5 in the Brera district of Milan.

Edward Dwurnik
Emilia Kina
Oskar Dawicki
Przemek Matecki
ALL THE SUNS

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.

Dominika Olszowy
Dominika Olszowy in Gdańsk City Gallery

Nonconventional, nonver­bal, with a unique back­ground story. The Bare Belly turns out to be a story of the illusory sense of safety. As soon as we think that we have figured out this whole mind­ful­ness business, that everything fits per­fec­tly into its place, that the time has finally come for us to lie down and breathe, feel and be yourself… well, little did we know.

Paulina Stasik
Selfie

Paulina Stasik
At one’s fingertips

Paulina Stasik
Self-care

Paulina Stasik
Inactivity

Paulina Stasik
Balancing Stones/Builder 

Paulina Stasik
Mind map

Dominika Olszowy
Karolina Jabłońska
Hotel Warszawa 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.

Zbigniew Rogalski
Valampuri

Zbigniew Rogalski
Portrait of a Boy

Zbigniew Rogalski
Concha

Zbigniew Rogalski
Polinices

Zbigniew Rogalski
Marisa Cornuarietis

Zbigniew Rogalski
Polymita

Zbigniew Rogalski
Amoria Zebra

Zbigniew Rogalski
Zbigniew Rogalski
HOMESICK

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.

Paulina Stasik
Drawings

Paulina Stasik
Digesting

Digestion con­tains many anth­ropomor­phic codes. We refer to ‘stones in the belly’ or say that ‘a stone got caught in my throat’ when we are thin­king of something unbearable or frigh­tening. In the pain­ting, stones are found in the oesophagus and the intestines. Digestion is impos­sible, deposits in the intestines have accumulated over many years. The liver is like lava, the lungs are a pond, and the heart is filled with the memory of lovers. The organism may be dys­func­tional, but something con­stan­tly enters the heroine’s mouth and breaks through the stones in the oesophagus. It’s an afterimage of the city with a glow of lights above it.

Paulina Stasik
Paulina Stasik
STONES

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.

Dominika Olszowy
Breakfast XD Coffee

Dominika Olszowy
House of rags

Edward Dwurnik
Opening of the headquarters of the Edward Dwurnik Foundation on the occasion of his 80th birthday anniversary

The Edward Dwur­nik Foun­dation unveils its new headquar­ters at 25 Naczow­ska Street in Warsaw’s Sadyba neigh­bor­hood on the occasion of the 80th anniver­sary of his birth. We cor­dially invite you to the exhibition’s four-​day opening.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Marcin Maciejowski
Three people in the Raster gallery (or girl with a jacket)

Karolina Jabłońska
Head in broth

Marcin Maciejowski
Changes at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź

Przemek Matecki
Light and body

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Dominika Olszowy
Emilia Kina
Karolina Jabłońska
Marcin Maciejowski
Paulina Stasik
Przemek Matecki
WARSAW SPRING Art Fair

What is Warsaw’s con­tem­porary art scene like today? It remains vivacious, sometimes feisty, and yet profes­sional, uphol­ding a world stan­dard. It is inter­national and local, all at once. But above all, it is full of intriguing initiatives, exciting both for viewers and the artists themselves.

Zofia Rydet
(Polski) Rozmowa z Łukaszem Gorczycą o wystawie Rydet w podcaście Audycje Kulturalne

(Polski) Polecamy odcinek pod­castu Audycje Kul­turalne z Łukaszem Gorczycą na temat fotografii Zofii Rydet i jej aktual­nej wystawy w galerii Raster zatytułowanej “Nieskończoność Dalekich Dróg”.

Dominika Olszowy
Slavs and Tatars
Brzeski, Olszowy and Slavs and Tatars in museum collections

We are pleased to report that in 2022 works by Olaf Brzeski, Dominika Olszowy, and Slavs and Tatars joined impor­tant public collections.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Negative Make-Up (Black)

Zbigniew Rogalski
Mir

Karolina Jabłońska
Hand

Karolina Jabłońska
Hair

Karolina Jabłońska
Drinking water

Emilia Kina
Untitled

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
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.

Dominika Olszowy
Final Push

FELIX Art Fair

At the Felix Art Fair 2023 Raster presen­ted works of Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Slavs and Tatars, Milena Korol­czuk, Zbigniew Rogalski.

Karolina Jabłońska
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.

Slavs and Tatars
Mouth to Mouth

The collective’s monograph inc­ludes all major art works, publications and lecture–performances from the past ten years, with a special screen­print by Slavs and Tatars in limited edition of 100 copies.

Karolina Jabłońska
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.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Terror

The latest, typo-photo-graphic per­for­mance by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska is an up-to-date political choreography. Using excerpts from her film works, the artist prepared an effec­tive screenprint.

Emilia Kina
Janek Simon
Paulina Stasik
NADA Miami

At the NADA 2022 art fair in Miami, Raster presen­ted works of Emilia Kina, Janek Simon and Paulina Stasik.

Janek Simon
Meta Folklore

Janek Simon com­bines in his works elements of post-​colonial theory, com­puter science, and anar­chism, with do-it-yourself practices. Meta Folklore is a series of figures prin­ted in 3D tech­nology based on a neural network created by the artist. The con­tinually expan­ding database—a set of photographs of the most varied figurative ethnic sculp­tures from various eras and cultures—is proces­sed based on prin­ciples of machine lear­ning and generates new pat­terns mutated in various ways.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
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
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
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.”

Oskar Dawicki
Men

Oskar Dawicki’s latest work depicts a group of men suf­fering the con­sequen­ces of an unk­nown gravitational crisis. This is usually caused by too abrupt an ascent from the depths or too violent a descent from the heaves into the atmosphere. In pop cul­ture, especially in cinema, such faces of men usually accom­pany some heroic deed […]

Emilia Kina
Emilia Kina
LE SOIR QUI TOMBE

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.

Emilia Kina
Untitled

Zbigniew Rogalski
(Polski) La Pologne?

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Paulina Stasik
Trying to mend wounds

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Paulina Stasik
Puppet show

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Paulina Stasik
Pretending to be invisible

 Stasik evokes mythical Titans and Atlases in female form, but also images tied to children’s fan­tasies or even puppet theatre. The allusion to the sphere of myth, proto-​spirituality and pan­sexuality is also the artist’s response to the con­tem­porary fate of the world, saturated with apocalyp­tic prophecies, visions of climate disaster and war­time chaos.

Paulina Stasik
Uplift

Stasik evokes mythical Titans and Atlases in female form, but also images tied to children’s fan­tasies or even puppet theatre. The allusion to the sphere of myth, proto-​spirituality and pan­sexuality is also the artist’s response to the con­tem­porary fate of the world, saturated with apocalyp­tic prophecies, visions of climate disaster and war­time chaos.