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.

Slavs and Tatars’s exhibition at the M HKA in Antwerp

A solo exhibition by col­lec­tive Slavs and Tatars, Friend­ship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz, is on view until April 30, 2023, at the MHKA, Antwerp.

Olaf Brzeski’s exhibition at the Galeria Bielska BWA

“The exhibition of Olaf Brzeski, entitled “Wish” con­tains, in its ideological layer, thoughts that, to some extent, con­cern each of us: the desire for good things to happen at home, in the family, in our private plans, as well as in the world as a whole, both the one shaped by people and the one over which man has no influence.”

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
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.

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
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.

NADA Miami

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

WARSAW WINTER 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.

Oskar Dawicki
MEN

This new project by Oskar Dawicki com­bines elements of per­for­mance and photography and is per­meated, as is a number of previous works of the artist’s, by the mood of existen­tial sorrow. The series of photographs prompts a reflec­tion on the role and position of traditional masculinity. To be a man is today – as the work visually argues – a chal­len­ging task, and a con­dition sub­ject to extreme pressure.

Dominika Olszowy at the Foksal Gallery

“The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

200 REVELATIONS

The new exhibition is devoted to the grey areas of the imagination—religious fervour and visions arising from an excess of metaphysical stimuli or, on the con­trary, from a scar­city of such stimuli and a lon­ging for spirituality in a world dominated by the economics of everyday pragmatism.

Elsner at the Wiesbaden Museum

Museum Wies­baden in Ger­many is presen­ting the first cross-​sectional individual show of Sławomir Elsner. 

Emilia Kina’s curtains

An individual exhibition by Emilia Kina is taking place at the Szara Kamienica Gal­lery in Cracow. Kina’s pain­tings create an original spatial instal­lation prepared especially for the interiors of an under­ground gallery.

Dwurnik in Museum Shows

Edward Dwurnik’s works can now be viewed at the exhibitions Poland/Retrospective at the Centre of Con­tem­porary Art in Toruń and Korowód. Edward Dwur­nik and the Spec­tres of History at Herbst Palace.
/ The Centre for Con­tem­porary Art in Toruń and the Łódź Museum of Art present the lar­gest exhibitions of Edward Dwurnik’s pain­tings to date.

Jabłońska at a German museum and in California

It’s a busy summer for Karolina Jabłońska. The artist’s works can be admired at the Steve Turner Gal­lery in Los Angeles and at the Museum Mors­broich in Leverkusen.

Śladami Hasiora

Dominika Olszowy, Prze­mek Matecki i Zbigniew Rogal­ski biorą udział w dwóch wystawach dedykowanych współczesnym kon­tek­stom twórczości legen­dar­nego zakopiańskiego artysty Władysława Hasiora.

Rydet at the Gwangju Biennale

Zofia Rydet’s photomon­tages from the World of Feelings and Imagination series are presen­ted at the most impor­tant Asian bien­nial in Gwan­gju, Korea.

Matecki and Althamer’s Reality Rifts

The exhibition Reality Rifts at BWA Zielona Góra is the second joint exhibition by Przemysław Matecki and Paweł Althamer after the Family at the Jerke Museum recently.

Painters look left

Joint pain­tings by Tomasz Ciecier­ski and Przemysław Matecki are presen­ted at Galeria Wizytująca in Warsaw.

Elsner at the Lenbachhaus in Munich

Drawings by Sławomir Elsner in dialogue with the clas­sics of expres­sionism in Sam­m­lung Blauer Reiter.

Slavs and Tatars – Ogórek Trocki and Pani Chrzan in Toronto

The Pickle Politics show by Slavs and Tatars laun­ches the exhibition activity of Sugar, a new curatorial project in Toronto.

Zofia Rydet and Carolina Caycedo in Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź

Third com­ponent of a larger series within the Prototypes project, through which dif­ferent artists are wor­king with the col­lec­tion of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. Carolina Caycedo presents her work in con­text with that of the Polish photographer Zofia Rydet.

Grzeszykowska at the “MASK In Present-Day Art” in Switzerland

Photographs by Aneta Grzeszykow­ska are presen­ted at the exhibition MASK In Present-​Day Art  at the Aar­gauer Kun­sthaus in Aargau, Switzerland.

House for Art – a project of Przemek Matecki and Paweł Althamer

House for Art, a joint project of Prze­mek Matecki and Paweł Althamer, has been realized in a private garden in Basel.

Art of the cut – Bytom at WGW

We want to invite you to the exhibition that presents a col­lec­tion of unique suits made by Bytom tailors in cooperation with out­stan­ding Polish artists.

Method and mess. Rafał Bujnowski at the Warsaw Chapter of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers

Painting is dirty work. We are remin­ded of this first by the paper towels—the latest pain­ting series by Rafał Buj­now­ski. Clas­sic motifs emerge from the black splot­ches of paint left by the brush when wiped routinely on paper towels.

(Polski) Metoda negatywu. Pracownie Obrazu Performatywnego w Szczecinie i Warszawie

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Dominika Olszowy: The winner of the Views 2019

The main prize of the Views 2019 was awar­ded to Dominika Olszowy for her instal­lation and video shows: The Wake. Congratulation! The exhibition will be open untill 30.06.2019. An audience award winner is additionally selec­ted in a general vote that conc­ludes with the exhibition.

Olaf Brzeski at the KAAF Institute

A new series of ceramic objects, created during a few months’ residency, presen­ted at the exhibition “Once Upon a Time in Iran” in Tehran.

Zbigniew Rogalski cooperates with Paweł Bownik and Tymon Rogalski

Two exhibitions by Zbigniew Rogal­ski in Poznań and Szczecin. Dif­ferent col­laborations, similar destination point.

The neurotics’ monument on Aleje Ujazdowskie

Rafal Buj­now­ski has designed a monument dedicated to all neurotics. Monument has a form of a trough carved in the granite paving stones, which fills up with water during a rain­fall and forms a per­fec­tly round puddle.

Slavs and Tatars at the Venice Biennale

Slavs and Tatars are par­ticipating in the main exhibition of 58th Venice Biennale.

Aneta Grzeszykowska exhibited in “The Body Electric”

Aneta Grzeszykowska’s photographs from the Selfie series are exhibited in “The Body Electric” exhibition taking place at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Slavs and Tatars in Minsk

“Movaland” exhibition by Slavs and Tatars at Ў Gal­lery in Minsk, Belarus.

3D synthetic folklore

On 22 February we invite you to the opening of the Janek Simon retrospec­tive at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Con­tem­porary Art in Warsaw. The exhibition will feature the most interesting works, objects and instal­lations by the artist drawn from the first 15 years of his career, along with new projects on psychedelia and artificial intel­ligence, as well as documen­tation of Simon’s curatorial and social initiatives.

Roman Biennale

Zbigniew Libera realized a moving, monumen­tal instal­lation at the Arte in Memoria bien­nale, held for over a decade in the ruins of Ostia Antica in Rome. The installation—a sec­tion of rail­road tracks dozens of yards long (pic­tured above)—bears the title Where Do They Go? and is located near the remains of the oldest synagogue in Europe.

Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2018

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.

Przemek Matecki’s works are heading out into the world

Works from the “Small Paintings” series and other to be features in upcoming solo and group shows in Gdańsk, Tarnów, Tel Aviv, Cottbus.

From mountain to mountain

“Mnich” – monumen­talny rysunek Zbigniewa Rogal­skiego – we Wrocławiu i Zakopanem

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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.

“Mouth to Mouth” in Istanbul

After being shown at Ujaz­dow­ski Castle Centre for Con­tem­porary Art, Warsaw and Pejman Foun­dation, Tehran, the collective’s first mid-​career survey “Mouth to Mouth” is presen­ted at SALT Galata.

Slavs and Tatars in Teheran

Slavs and Tatars’ mid-​career survey “Mouth to Mouth” evolves into “Nose to Nose” in Teheran

The Finger

An exhibition that brings together the works of four artists – Zbigniew Libera and Prze­mek Matecki, represen­ted by Raster Gal­lery, Warsaw, and Yaron Attar and Hadas Satt, represen­ted by RawArt Gal­lery, Tel Aviv; organized as part of 2017’s Fresh Paint art fair in Tel Aviv.

The Black From The Blue

A selec­tion of films by the British artist Tom Dale screened at Raster.

The Saturday Object Theater

The Satur­day Object Theater, COM­BATOKYO, The cucum­ber conver­sation and other short films by the Japanese video artist COBRA screened at Raster.

Michelle Rawlings’ show in Dallas

Mathare Materka

Razem Pamoja Foun­dation from Kraków organized Bartek Materka’s exhibition in Mathare Art Gal­lery, located in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenia.

Grzeszykowska reviewed

A short recap of Aneta Grzeszykowska’s critically acc­laimed two-​venue show in NYC.

WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2016

A three-​day celebration of con­tem­porary art, more than 20 openings at Warsaw’s gal­leries, many col­lateral events held by major Polish art institutions, discus­sions, par­ties. Join this excep­tional event and feel the spirit of Warsaw’s up-and-coming art scene.

Art Collection Telekom at Królikarnia

During this year’s WGW its audience is invited to a special show of works by Maria Kulikovska and Eva Koťátková from Art Col­lec­tion Telekom. The presen­tation at Królikar­nia will serve as a preview of a broader exhibition plan­ned for 2017.

Bujnowski at Zacheta—National Gallery of Art

“May 2066” is a three-​chapter story about time.

Bujnowski’s linocut-wallpaper in Prague

A premiere of a new series of graphics or rather an abs­tract linocut wal­l­paper by Rafal Buj­now­ski in Ber­lin­skej Model gal­lery in Prague

“Performer” and “Walser” in Hong Kong

Premiere screenings of two loudly-​commented movies from 2015 will take place at 10 Chan­cery Lane Gal­lery in Hong Kong: “Walser”, a cinematic debut by Zbigniew Libera who wrote and direc­ted it, and “Per­for­mer”, a feature film inspired by Oskar Dawicki, starring… Oskar Dawicki playing Oskar Dawicki (dir. by Łukasz Ron­duda and Maciej Sobieszczański).

Brzeski in Berlin

Olaf Brzeski’s exhibition “Anteroom” was prepared for the gal­lery of the Polish Institute in Berlin in col­laboration with Ory Dessau, a curator from Israel and… the artist’s five-year-old son Konstanty.

Libera rubbing against sculptures

The 50th anniver­sary of the Xavery Dunikow­ski Museum of Sculp­ture was celebrated by an extraor­dinary exhibition entitled “Zbigniew Libera: It’s Not My Fault That This Sculp­ture Rubbed Against Me”. Libera, in a char­ming and humorous way, described his role in this project as “truffle hog”.

Brussels yoga by Simon

Janek Simon’s show “Brussels Research Yoga” was exhibited in the artistic neigh­bor­hood of Saint-​Gilles, in the space run by an experimen­tal art residency program Super Deals, who invited Simon for a one-month-long stay in Brussels.

Budny, Novotný and the fern flower

“Kapradinový květ” (Fern Flower)—a joint exhibition by Michał Budny and Jaromír Novotný, curated by Marek Pokorny at Plato Gal­lery, Ostrava.

WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND

Warsaw Gal­lery Week­end 2015: a three-​day celebration of con­tem­porary art, more than 20 openings at Warsaw’s best gal­leries, many col­lateral events held by major Polish art institutions, con­certs, per­for­man­ces, and discus­sions. Join this excep­tional event and feel the spirit of Warsaw’s up-and-coming art scene.

Maciejowski and Picasso in Hamburg

An exten­sive exhibition in Deich­tor­hal­len Ham­burg is dedicated to the over­whel­ming spec­trum of modern and con­tem­porary artists’ per­spec­tives on Picasso. Among almost 200 works on loan, there are also three pain­tings by Marcin Maciejowski.

Matecki à la Budapest

Przemek Matecki’s solo show at Platán gal­lery in Budapest is a variation on one par­ticular motif, or a pain­ting procedure rather, used in his works: a mul­tilayer color­ful pat­tern created using a palette knife.

Slavs and Tatars in Abu Dhabi

One of the big­gest solo exhibitions by Slavs and Tatars so far – Mir­rors For Prin­ces – in Abu Dhabi’s NYU Art Gallery.

Metropolis Materka

A series of pain­tings by Bartek Materka – an effect of his 2013 art residency in Upper Silesia – is cur­ren­tly on display in the new buil­ding of the Silesian Museum in Katowice.

Dawicki bursts into happy tears in Lublin

‘Lacrimosa’ – an extraor­dinary instal­lation by Oskar Dawicki at Galeria Labirynt in Lublin.

New works by Matecki in Zachęta

Matecki’s first solo show in Zacheta – National Gal­lery of Art in Warsaw (curated by Maria Rubersz & Woj­ciech Kozłowski) was at the same time his big­gest exhibition in a public art institution so far.

WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND

Warsaw Gal­lery Week­end 2014: a three-​day celebration of con­tem­porary art, more than 20 openings at Warsaw’s best gal­leries, many col­lateral events held by major Polish art institutions, con­certs, per­for­man­ces, and discus­sions. Join this excep­tional event and feel the spirit of Warsaw’s up-and-coming art scene.

Matecki’s sketches in a parisian forest

A cat­chily entitled show in Progress Gal­lery in Paris, ‘Isn’t it Good to be Lost in the Wood’ presents new works on paper by Prze­mek Matecki and Pierre Ardouvin.

THE NAUGHTY NASALS

Slavs and Tatars presents exhibition “Long-legged lin­guistics. The Naughty Nasals” in Arsenal Gal­lery in Białystok.

Collected journeys by Janek Simon

Janek Simon and his ‘exotic’ art projects at BWA Wroclaw

Bujnowski, Dawicki and the Drunkard’s Dog

Rafal Buj­now­ski and Oskar Dawicki simul­taneously presen their own inter­pretation of a tough relation between an artist and his art in Gdansk.

EDITIONSHOW

An exhibition of artists’ editions, ephemera and smal­ler produc­tions that are often capable of integrating delicacy and irony in their execution

WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND
27-29.09.2013

Save the date! On behalf of Warsaw’s con­tem­porary art gal­leries and art foun­dations, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to the third edition of WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END between the 27th – 29th of Sep­tem­ber 2013. We are deligh­ted to host this exciting series of art openings and accom­panying events, which inc­ludes meetings with well-​known European col­lec­tors, […]

Johanna Billing

The Swedish artist Johanna Bil­ling (born 1973) represents the approach to con­tem­porary art which assumes that the final “work” – in this case, few minutes long videos – are merely a part of a real social process which should be trig­gered by art. For the needs of her works, In preparing the films, carefully deciding […]

Holes in NYC

This summer, Derek Eller Gal­lery, located in New York’s Chel­sea, presents “Hair and Skin”, an exhibition curated by Isaac Lyles. The show presents the body in extremes to explore the poten­tial of physical empathy and bodily resonance. Presen­ted along­side works by such distin­guished artists as Hans Bel­l­mer, Louise Bour­geois and Günter Brus, is “Holes”

Budny in Gateshead

Work­place presents be like water, a group exhibition looking at aspects of destruc­tion as artistic for­mula, the erroneous or delusive nature of a fading memory, and discour­ses sur­roun­ding the inven­ted and imagined. be like water takes the work of six artists who employ repetition, attrition, sub­limation and inter­subjec­tivity in the creation of their work, together […]

Maciejowski at BALTIC

Marcin Maciejowski’s first individual exhibition in a British public institution took place in BALTIC Centre for Con­tem­porary art in Gateshead. Presen­ted there were pain­tings made in the years 2003-2012.

Grzeszykowska and Budny on Twisted Entities show

Performer

Oskar Dawicki’s “Performer” is a story about him­self as a fic­tional charac­ter. The exhibition, com­bining various disciplines – art, film and literature – is a unique enter­prise where the per­for­mer, Dawicki’s alter ego, appears in dif­ferent incar­nations, con­stan­tly examining the boun­dary between work of art and reality.

Dawicki at Narrations Festival

Two film works by Oskar Dawicki – “The Tree of Knowledge” (2008) and “Hangman” (2011) – were presen­ted at Nar­rations Festival as large-​scale projec­tions on the buil­dings of Gdańsk’s Old Town.