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Portrait of a Young Man

Portrait of a Young Man
from the series “It Blows My Mind”

from the series “It Blows My Mind”
Olaf Brzeski <br> SHIP

WARSAW GAL­LERY WEEK­END 2024

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.

EXHIBITIONS

ALL THE SUNS

EXHIBITIONS 2023 

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.
Olaf Brzeski<br>ADVENTURE

EXHIBITIONS 2020

Olaf Brzeski
ADVENTURE

Adventure is a story full of per­sonal experien­ces, ruminations on love and death, joy and loss, as well as small but meaning­ful sen­sations, like the pleasure from a complement.
If I Were the Moon

warsaw gal­lery week­end 2018

If I Were the Moon

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.
Friend of a Friend

2018 exhibitions

Friend of a Friend

“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. 
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.
Olaf Brzeski<br />AT HEART

Exhibitions 2013/2014

Olaf Brzeski
AT HEART

We are pleased to announce that from now on, Olaf Brzeski will be one of Raster’s represen­ted artists. His first solo show at the gal­lery, entitled ‘At Heart’, will feature only one artwork – an extreme test of the sculp­tural genre, as well as a charac­teristic figure of the impos­sible, both lyrical and oppres­sive all at once.

Born in 1975 in Wroclaw
1994-1995  - studied at the Faculty of Architecture of Technical University in Wroclaw
1995-2000 - studied at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Wroclaw Academy of Art and Design
Lives and works in Wroclaw

 

It is with a remar­kable sense of imagination that Olaf Brzeski (born 1975) rein­ter­prets the tradition and scope of sculp­ture. Many of the artist’s works refer direc­tly to the human form, enac­ting not so much the physical as the emotional depths of the sub­ject. Brzeski’s sculp­tural bodies are replete with the unexpec­ted, the uncanny, the unnatural and the over­sized. The source of these fan­tastic, astonishing forms is always the idea, then the sketch – as the sim­plest metaphor for the act of creation

 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL

The ING Polish Art Foundation,  PL

Zachęta National Gallery of Art, PL

Ossolineum, PL

National Museum in Wroclaw, PL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

- Excellent!, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław, PL

- Ship, Raster, Warsaw,  PL

- The Situation is Perfect, Galeria Entropia, Wrocław, PL

 

2023

- Wish, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL

 

2020

- Adventure, Raster, Warsaw, PL

 

2019

- Once Upon A Time In Iran, KAAF Institute, Tehran, IR

 

2015

- Vorraum (Anteroom), Polnisches Institut, Berlin, DE

- Megalomania, Raster, Warsaw, PL

- Half, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

- Czułe Spojrzenie (Tender Look), Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL

 

2013

- Samolub (Self-seeker), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL

- Blask (Shine), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL

 

2012

- Tylko dla moich oczu (From My Eyes Only), Awangarda gallery - BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PL

- Upadek człowieka, którego nie lubię (The Fall of the Man I Don’t Like), Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, PL

 

2010

- Monumentalis (Monumental), Platan gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest, HU

- A twarz miał obrośniętą uszami jak dno łodzi ostrygami (Ears have grown all over his face, like oysters on a bottom of a boat), Czarna gallery, Warsaw, PL

 

2009

- Breath, Bunhouse Bandits Gallery, London, UK

- Sen – samozapłon (Dream – Spontaneous Combustion), BWA Zielona Gora Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL

 

2008

- Czarne charaktery, czyli długo oczekiwana zmiana ról (Villains – The Extensively Awaited Swap of Roles), Glass and Ceramics Gallery - BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PL

 

2007

- Pan myśliwy (The Hunter), Okna Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL

 

2006

- Tylko dla ludzi (For Humans Only), Awangarda gallery - BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PL

 

2004

- Tylko dla zwierząt (For Animals Only), Awangarda gallery - BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PL

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

- Open Collection!, National Museum in Wrocław, Wrocław, PL

 

2024

- Byzantine Nostalgia, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL

 

2023

-Three Steps into the Clouds, Elektrownia Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art, Radom, PL

- Clouds of Lead, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL

- Rococo Madness! Fascination with Rococo in Silesia (18th–21th c.), Four Domes Pavilionbranch of National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, PL

- Gypsum Flesh Story, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL 

- Udomowienie, Willa Polonia, Busko-Zdrój, PL

- Na krawędzi, Obcy Miejsce, Warsaw, PL
- Backyard, Skala Gallery, Poznań, PL

2021

- Regeneration Field, Dizajn BWA Wrocław, PL

 

2020

- Two Arts Are Better than One, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

 

2019

- The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, The Silesian Museum in Katowice, PL

- Private Mythologies. Marta's Birthday, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, PL

 

2018

- The Cloud Atlas, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, FR

- Dzikość serca. Portret i autoportret w Polsce po 1989 roku (Wild at Heart. Portrait and Self-Portrait in Poland after 1989), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, PL

 

2017

- Białe kłamstwo (White Lie), CSW Kronika, Bytom, PL

- Od „Sztucznej rzeczywistości” do selfie. Autoportret w polskiej sztuce współczesnej, BWA Wrocław, Wrocław, PL

- Teraźniejszość? Kolekcja Fundacji Sztuki Polskiej ING, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, PL

- Uporczywe upodobanie (Pernicious Predilection), Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL

- Detsky Sen (Childhood Dream), Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL

 

2016

- JET LAG, Platán Galéria, Budapest, HU

- A Rebours, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL

 

2015

- Sztuka w naszym wieku (Art in Our Age), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

- Brudnopis (Rough Sketch), Think Tank lab Triennale, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław, PL

- Wernakularność (Vernacularity), Alternativa Festival, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, PL

- Dzikie pola. Historia awangardowego Wrocławia (The Wild West. A History of Wroclaw’s Awant-Garde), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

- Otwarte miasto. VII Festiwal Sztuki w Przestrzeni Publicznej (Open City. Festival of Art in Public Space), Lublin, PL

- I will go there, take me home, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK

- Zbiory wspólne (Common Sets), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL

- Stan życia. Polska sztuka współczesna w kontekście globalnym (State of Life. Polish Contemporary Artwithin a Global Circumstance), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, CN

- Umenie na hlave (Procedures for the Head), Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK

 

2014

- Architektura cienia. Szalety i bazary (Shadow Architecture. Lavatories and Bazaars), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL

- Niezgodnie z instrukcją, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, PL

 

2013

- Co pozostaje, BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz, PL

- Katalog Entropii Sztuki (The Entropy of Art: a Catalogue), Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, PL

 

2012

- Huls (Hools), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

- Rysunek wraca w wielkim stylu (Drawing Is Coming Back in a Big Way), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL

- Coming Soon (Ariergarda), Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE

- Czerwona poprzeczka (The Red Bar), Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, PL

 

2011

- Guerillas, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, PL

- Power of Fantasy, BOZAR, Brussels, BE

- 1000 lat nowoczesności (1000 Years of Modernity), BWA Tarnow Gallery, Moscice, PL

- Folskstone Triennale, Folkstone, UK

 

2010

- Wszystkie stworzenia duże i małe (All Creatures Great and Small), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

 

2009

- Counter Logic, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK

- Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, FR

- Spojrzenia (Views), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

- Take a Look at Me Now, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK

- East International, Norwich, UK

- Vision Division, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, PL

 

2008

- Artyści zewnętrzni (External Artists. Out of sth), BWA Wroclaw Gallery, Wroclaw, PL

- Festiwal Dialogu Czterech Kultur (Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures), Lodz, PL

- 5. Triennale Młodych (5th Young Triennale), Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL

- International Triennale of Contemporary Art – ITCA 2008, Národní galerie v Praze, Prague, CZ

- Establishment jako źródło cierpień (Establishment and its discontents), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL

- Ballady i romanse (Ballads and Romances), Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL

- Nazajutrz (The Day After), Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, PL

 

2006

- A-Huset, Copenhagen, DK