Edward Dwurnik, Zofia Rydet, Paweł Althamer <br> PEOPLE

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2025

Edward Dwurnik, Zofia Rydet, Paweł Althamer
PEOPLE

Chochołów, Sławoszyno, Chęciny, Celejów — the exhibition takes place far from art cen­tres, and its protagonists are not artists but the titular People — residents of Polish vil­lages and small towns. The nar­rative unfolds over three decades, from the 1960s to the early 1990s. During that time, indepen­den­tly of each other and out­side the framework of official artistic policy, Edward Dwur­nik and Zofia Rydet embar­ked on their own unique, per­sonal jour­neys deep into the country.
ACTIVITIES WITH FAMILY

2016 EXHIBITIONS

ACTIVITIES WITH FAMILY

In what way does the family life of artists merge into their art? Star­ting with the total prac­tice of KwieKulik, a pair of artists who introduced their own child and other relatives into their poetic-​structural “activities with a camera” in the 1970s, we take a look at how family ties and relations are tested in the public forum through the medium of art. So, does art work to create distance, or, conver­sely, does it con­tribute to a deeper under­stan­ding, empathy and unraveling of familial tensions?
Michał Budny </br>CROWN

2015/2016 EXHIBITIONS

Michał Budny
CROWN

When con­sidering Budny’s works, one is con­sisten­tly awed by the noble, sub­dued power packed into those simple, natural gestures, materials and forms. The latest exhibition develops the fun­damen­tal themes within the prac­tice of this extraor­dinary artist in a new way—struggling with the material and the space, the emotions and the architec­ture. “Crown” is an exac­ting com­position of individual objects that cor­respond and, in turn, provoke one another. They are all con­nec­ted through a striking manifestational quality, precision and uncom­promising character.
Olaf Brzeski<br>MEGALOMANIA

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2015

Olaf Brzeski
MEGALOMANIA

The disrup­tion of scale and weight, the fan­ciful use of material, the trans­ference of drawing into the physical space and an obses­sive imagination that revolves around the human figure—these are the stan­dard elements of Brzeski’s craft. “Megalomania” exhibition is a sculp­tural study of size, ambition and fragility – in which the artist will face off with figures and materials that appear in various ways hyper­bolic or imagined even.
Michelle Rawlings<br>A GENTLE CREATURE

2015 exhibitions

Michelle Rawlings
A GENTLE CREATURE

Relatively small in size, Michelle Rawlings’ pain­tings come together as a sequence of images, much like a blog or instagram feed. Raw­lings referen­ces various styles and genres of pain­ting, adap­ting them to her individual scale and nar­rative. The realm of her visual pur­suits is in large part focused on represen­tations of young women and girls – artists, actors and models – as well as the formal lan­guage of con­tem­porary art.
Janek Simon<br>PEOPLE WITH THE HEADS OF DOGS

2015 exhibitions

Janek Simon
PEOPLE WITH THE HEADS OF DOGS

Simon’s many exotic trips over the past dozen years have served to develop his para-​artistic endeavors, vested on the frin­ges of economics, art and post-​colonial thought. His newest exhibition is an offshoot of these ear­lier experien­ces, as it also inverts the per­spec­tive of the artist as observer. Simon’s main topic of interest shifts from inter­cul­tural exchange towards the sub­jec­tive observations of a researcher-​traveler: exploration, and con­fabulation, too, of which the experien­ces of recognized travelers, repor­ters and artists are full of.
Sławomir Elsner, Zbigniew Rogalski</br>VIEW FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EYE

2015 EXHIBITIONS

Sławomir Elsner, Zbigniew Rogalski
VIEW FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EYE

A joint exhibition by Sławomir Elsner and Zbigniew Rogal­ski reveals images that customarily only artists are privy to – inside the studio and across land­scapes viewed from the depth’s of the painter’s eye. Each of these artists is fascinated by the conven­tions and the ethereal aspect of pain­ting, while the works on show also exhibit a self-​reflection on the typicality of the space in which art is created, and on the delusory nature of mankind’s visual apparatus.
Błażej Pindor <br />PAŁAC LX

2015 EXHIBITIONS

Błażej Pindor
PAŁAC LX

In the 60 years since the erec­tion of Warsaw’s Palace of Cul­ture and Science, this peculiar architec­tural struc­ture remains an impenetrable aesthetic phenomenon. Błażej Pindor’s photography project is the first ear­nest attempt at an artistic inter­pretation of the space within and around the Palace. The essence of his photography is an analysis of the impact the struc­ture has on the viewer – dominating, rescaled, sel­fish and opulent beyond measure, at the same time raw and seductive.
Jan Tomza-Osiecki <br />ISPC

2015 EXHIBITIONS

Jan Tomza-Osiecki
ISPC

Jan Tomza-​Osiecki is part of a generation for whom the inten­sive experience of vir­tual reality – via new media, the Inter­net, simple program­ming lan­guages, gaming, and 3D graphics and design – is key to creating works of art. His point of depar­ture is the abs­tract sculp­tural form, which he animates through the introduc­tion of sound, endowing it with real­ness and dynamism; the func­tioning of his interac­tive objects is based on a feed­back effect, which is typically con­sidered undesirable among engineers. The noisome issue of feed­back is now at the heart of the object’s pur­pose, opening up the field of experimen­tation and creating possibilities for gaining a new under­stan­ding for familiar spaces and the movement’s of one’s own body.
& Jan Smaga<br>Private Archive

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& Jan Smaga
Private Archive

A joint col­lec­tion of photographs to which Grzeszykow­ska and Smaga refer to as their “private archive” is on the one hand a peek into the back­ground of the couple’s artistic prac­tices, on the other—provides an indelible record of life in such a partnership.

Message

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Message

The only exam­ple still for sale of the excep­tional early sculp­tural works by Budny that laun­ched the artist’s inter­national career.

Behind reason

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Behind reason

A series of prints on the over­looked story of mysticism within moder­nity, made to accompany Beyonsense, Slavs and Tatars’ Projects 98 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Karolina Jabłońska in Sopot

EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND

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.
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