CURRENT EXHIBITION
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.
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.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
Karma is a narrative of animalization, but also the personification of bodies reduced to the role of objects.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
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.
PARIS PHOTO 2024
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
EXHIBITIONS 2024
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.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
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.
ART FAIRS
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.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
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 […]
ART FAIRS 2019
Raster with other Warsaw galleries taking part in Friend of a Friend at ART Düsseldorf: Olaf Brzeski.
warsaw gallery weekend 2019
This exhibition designed especially for the Raster space peers out from a dark lining of domesticity. Using hybrid objects and sculptures, disturbing images and mysterious passages, Olszowy creates her own vision of home.
ART FAIRS 2019
Raster at COSMOSCOW fair: Lev Povzner, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Olaf Brzeski, Slavs and Tatars
exhibitions 2019
“Mama” is the latest series of photographs by Aneta Grzeszykowska, who presents her daughter in the activities with silicone sculpture-doll – a hyper-realistic image of the head and body of her mother-artist.
2019 exhibitions
(Polski) Serdecznie zapraszamy na wystawę inaugurującą stałą reprezentację spuścizny Edwarda Dwurnika przez galerię Raster. Wystawa przygotowana została we współpracy z Fundacją Edwarda Dwurnika, założoną przez spadkobierców artysty.
art fairs 2019
Raster at LISTE in Basel: Rafał Bujnowski, Dominika Olszowy, Michelle Rawlings, Janek Simon
exhibitions 2019
In the 2nd edition of the Friend of a Friend project, Galeria Raster invites you to an encounter of three artists from three continents: Flo Kasearu from Estonia, Sachiko Kazama from Japan, and Michelle Rawlings from the United States. Each of them works in a different medium and cultural context, employing an individual, expressive language. In varying ways, all of them negotiate the social and political dimensions of artistic work.
2019 exhibitions
Metaphorically and seasonally, the exhibition 1000 Hands suits the climate of the pre-spring thaw, illuminating a landscape of exhaustion and approaching, intuitively sensed change. In Polish literature this metaphor carries a political dimension. In the works shown together here by Rafał Bujnowski (1974–), Peter Puklus (1980–) and Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), what is vital is the very process of transformation, and the accompanying ambivalence, the temperature of interpersonal relations and the potential of the human hands from the title.
2018/19 exhibitions
“Slippery” at Raster is Karolina Jabłońska’s first individual show in Warsaw. In her paintings girls wear rings and guys wear watches, but the stereotypical logic of dominance is reversed. The heroines here are idols, soothsayers and thieves, and relationships and passions explode as violently as they end, in emotion. Here exaggeration and hyperbole are the rule for both composition and life.
TOKYO EXHIBITION
Joint exhibition of Rafał Bujnowski and Michelle Rawlings is organized by Raster in Tokyo’s Shibuya Hikarie
2018 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Rafał Bujnowski, Zbigniew Rogalski, Slavs and Tatars. Booth #2.04/3.03
warsaw gallery weekend 2018
The post-romantic figure of the drunken artist is fading into the past, leaving behind a landscape littered with hallucinations, depravity, and shattered illusions. This is the story of the intimate ties between contemporary art and vodka. Conceived as a medley of artworks and documentary content, the exhibition features Krzysztof M. Bednarski, Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Oskar Dawicki, Edward Dwurnik, Władysław Hasior, Jerzy Lewczyński, Honorata Martin, Dominika Olszowy, Zbigniew Rogalski, Wilhelm Sasnal, and others.
exhibitions 2018
Raster is among nine renowned galleries from Europe and Middle East to take part in the Condo Unit show in Athens.
2018 exhibitions
W ramach kolejnej odsłony cyklu ORNO, dedykowanego spółdzielni jubilerskiej, która przez kilkadziesiąt lat użytkowała lokal przy Wspólnej 63 – obecną siedzibę Rastra – prezentujemy prace współczesnych artystów wykorzystujące tkaninę – materię ściśle związaną z tzw. sztuką użytkową.
2018 art fairs
Raster at COSMOSCOW fair in Moscow: Rafał Bujnowski, Przemek Matecki, Slavs and Tatars
2018 exhibitions
Contemporary visual culture treats the body as a plastic material that can be formed, shaped, distorted and deformed as needed or desired. The images gathered for our exhibition are a special collection of such bodies subjected to various treatments and forms of subduing and controlling the body.
The cosmetic masks photographed by Grzeszykowska effectively reshape the artist’s face. The school lessons in anatomy in Koťátková’s collages results in deconstruction of the holistic unity of body and psyche. Araki’s nudes frankly address sexual practices grounded in domination.
art fairs 2018
Raster at LISTE in Basel: Oskar Dawicki, Honorata Martin, Slavs and Tatars
2018 art fairs
Raster at Tbilisi Art Fair: Olaf Brzeski, Przemek Matecki, Zofia Rydet, Slavs and Tatars.
2018 exhibitions
“Friend of a Friend” is a concept based on the principle of friendly collaboration between contemporary art galleries. It puts together Warsaw-based spaces as hosts with international guests, and thus aims to establish an alternative platform for commercial galleries to present contemporary art. The group exhibition prepared at Raster will include works by Breyer P-Orridge (1950, UK) from Zurich’s Galerie Bernhard, Andrea Kvas (1986, IT) and Nick Bastis (1985, US) from Vienna’s Ermes-Ermes gallery, as well as Olaf Brzeski.
2018 exhibition
In his latest series of paintings, which he worked on nonstop for the past year or more, Matecki takes on the vastness of art. A tangible symbol of its fecundity is the heavy piles of superfluous exhibition catalogs and art magazines which the artist browses through in search of inspiring material for his own work. Matecki gives new life to reproductions, transforming them into sharp, witty miniature oil paintings. The treatments he applies generate surprising effects. Here art is submitted to an authorial compression and regains its vigor. Often with a single gesture, Matecki extracts the essence from the work of other artists and creates entirely new paintings exuding energy and humor, a kind of contemporary, masterly capriccio.
Karolina has prepared a special limited series of 30 unique works on paper, which are offered for sale along with the book “Made-Up Story”.
Collector’s offer
Original posters by Edward Dwurnik from the 1980s, which accompanied individual shows by the artist. The expressive style of these works and the spareness of their printing perfectly capture the specific climate of the crisis decade of martial law, strikes, and the dawn of the Polish transformation.
RASTER EDITIONS
The self-portrait was placed on a poster for a production of “The Gorgonowa Affair” at the Stary Theatre in Kraków.
raster editions
“Pałac w Warszawie” by Waldemar Baraniewski, a book from our architectural Warsaw series of publications, with a special photograph by Błażej Pindor in limited edition of 30 copies.
raster editions
A series of black and white photographs showing figures “found” in the shape of branches, made of sticks, grasses, hay.
RASTER EDITIONS
Queer version of Edward Krasiński’s mirror with his legendary Scotch Blue.
raster editions
“Romuald Gutt’s Warsaw” by Błażej Pindor, a book from our architectural Warsaw series of publications, with a special photograph by the artist in limited edition of 30 copies.
raster editions
Collector’s edition of Zbigniew Libera’s “Photographs” album with a limited edition miniature format of his “First Day of Freedom” 2012 photograph.
WARSAW SERIES
A book devoted to the work of Romuald Gutt, one of the most important Polish architects of the 20th century, forerunner of organic architecture, designer of characteristic buildings of grey brick, public edifices and residential structures.
INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS
Łukasz Gorczyca and Łukasz Ronduda discuss art, vodka, and the backstage of artistic life from the 1960s to the present, in a collection of interviews with 14 artists from several generations, from Jerzy Bereś to Wojciech Bąkowski.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
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.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
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.
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We cordially invite you to a meeting with Oskar Zięta – an architect, designer, and artist – the author of innovative and iconic utility objects, small-scale architecture, and spatial forms. The meeting will feature surprises and special guests, and the backdrop for our event will be a series of sculptures inspired by the form of a backyard metal rug-beating frame (trzepak), created by Zięta in the Sculpture Garden Raster.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
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).
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
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].