Exhibitions
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May 2024
Saligia
Julia Medyńska mówi o sobie, że jest reżyserką swoich obrazów. Zresztą teatralne czy filmowe nawiązania są w jej malarstwie bardzo czytelne, lubi wybierać kadry z filmów, przerabiać je po swojemu.
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March 2024
Cuentacuentos
Katarzyna Karpowicz has just created an exhibition inspired by Spain, its art, colours and light, and above all lifestyle. She thrills at the paintings of El Greco and delights in the charm of being part of a community, of tolerance, gestures of closeness, the skill of celebrating moments, of living everyday life to the fullest.
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July 2023
Non-existence
Drawing from the bag of colour glass marbles, the boy usually chose the black one, turning it in his hand like a prophecy. A bad omen, the adults would say, if they knew. The colour black does not fit with childhood.
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December 2022
Eclipses
Usually, we expect good paintings to provide an epiphany, a revelation or a discovery of something before us that we could not clearly see ourselves. Can an eclipse be an epiphany? This is worth checking out.
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December 2022
Roman Holiday
A Roman holiday in the middle of winter? Krzysztof Kokoryn brings to life dreams of sunshine, beauty and the Italian lifestyle. Instead of a plane ticket, a series of Roman paintings.
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May 2022
Love song
Jacek Łydżba loves, wants love, paints the hunger for feeling, paints the state of rapture. In each female portrait, he encloses a universe of feelings, experiences, promises. There are scores of female faces on the sheets of music, and each one is the face of a beloved, for whom the heart of the painter and the viewer beats.
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February 2022
Maurin
In Katarzyna Karpowicz’s paintings, feelings and dreams, literature and cinema, reality and unreality, are combined in a seductive narrative, full of subtle wit and light nostalgia.
Life is elsewhere, perhaps in the painting.
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October 2021
Dancing by the Lake
To meet the painter Julia Medyńska, we went all the way to Międzyrzecz, in the middle of summer. We were driven by unbridled curiosity. We knew very little, only that recently, after years spent in Berlin and New York, she had suddenly landed right in Międzyrzecz, that she was an actress. Everything looked very intriguing and mysterious.
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July 2021
Cumulative stimulus study
A man from outside the community, untrained, an amateur, self-taught, whatever you want to call it. In any case, a non-professional artist who wanted to see if he measured up to the professional world of art. After all, who said that the lack of a formal education is an obstacle?
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June 2021
A painting – a window
The presentation of Łukasz Majcherowicz’s works from the Windows cycle is yet another exhibition without an audience at the Galeria Art. After a year of living in isolation, after “the year that wasn’t”, after months full of fear, sadness and hope, these paintings – personal records of the artist’s emotions – acquire a universal character: in them, as in mirrors or windows, our feelings are reflected.
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May 2021
An Account of Imagination
So far, the search for the proto-language as we know it have seemed to be finished, not to say closed, because the lack of new monuments of writing or epigraphy was tantamount to the lack of new research sources for studying the original forms of communication.
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November 2020
Crevices of Colour
It needs to be said straightforwardly: the hands practically itch to get at these paintings. You want to touch them, slide your hand over the smooth shiny strip of paint, like it was the paint of a luxury car of the surface of a designer fridge, accidentally brushing against a rough surface that’s happening farther on and feel more, dig in the grooves of colour, like in hardened plasticine.
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August 2020
Silver
In Katarzyna Karpowicz’s paintings, art and medicine intertwine into an inseparable magical story, medicine becomes magic, and the personal experience of illness and recovery makes the story touchingly true.
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July 2020
The Gods of Minecraft
Long live the senses, long live excitement! There is no room for boredom, discouragement or indolence in Dionysus’ procession. What’s more, everyone will find a place for themselves here: they can lose themselves into the joyous crowd or take the lead to impress others and themselves.
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April 2019
The tango as an excuse
The theme of this exhibition is the tango, the most sensuous dance in the world. Seductive, sexy, filled with desire and jealousy, a desire for power, the wish to dominate the partner but also a longing for love and intimacy. He and she, the story that unfolds between them on the dance floor for a few moments.
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December 2018
Blue Glass
In Katarzyna Karpowicz’s works, the painting is always the result of deeply experiencing reality, of observations and feelings. The seemingly unreal scene flows from events, meetings and conversations. Life experiences give rise to new painting series.
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November 2018
Meander
The labyrinth is a recurring theme in Łukasz Majcherowicz’s art. With each painting the artist ventures deeper on the journey into his unconscious, down the byways of reality. He tries to understand himself and the world. He poses questions but offers no answers.
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September 2018
Touch
The tone of Magdalena Sawicka’s drawings is personal; the artist herself declares that there is no such thing as a communal sensitivity; each person has their own experiences, thoughts, feelings; and even when she draws inspiration from the global internet community, she interprets the existing interpretations.
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March 2017
The Pink Cloud
Beata Murawska’s painting belongs to the tradition of Colourism. It is bound up with it and inspired by it so strongly that one is tempted to look for analogies or to quote the classics of the genre.
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March 2016
Late symptoms of death
Divagations on art and death. For a long time, Huculak believed that the gravity of a skull – this crown of still life – is inevitably suffused with the grotesque. For years he would treat painting skulls as a painter’s training, almost meditational, until the motif grew in strength and the painting reached the appropriate state of matter. The existential burden and the chill of constructivism merged into a painting.
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April 2014
The effects of colours
Stendhal syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder which causes rapid dizziness, heartbeat, confusion or hallucinations when a sensitive individual is exposed to works of art and architecture accumulated in a relatively small space.
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December 2013
Coral reefs, or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The paintings by Krzysztof Pająk begin where the light is about to stop. At first, there is the dive into the abyss – the big blue, navy blue – almost blackness, darkness. Next comes the experience of a brand new world of coral reefs. A revelation, a fairytale, a day-dream, the pulsation of colour, and sensuality so different from the one on the surface.
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November 2012
High-Pressure Area
What fascinates me, above all, are the geometricised objects in distinctive colours that emerge from the thick background, penetrating it in their drive to ‘break free’ to the surface.
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May 2012
Paintings in interiors
The majority of the exhibited paintings would not fit in your homes. The smallest canvases are of 2 metres in height and, thus, we could merely pack thirty eight of these in the 800 square metres of the exhibition hall. Series No 25 alone consists of over 300 paintings, most of which were painted within 6 years. That means almost 50 large-format canvases a year! And at the same time Edward Dwurnik was developing his other series of paintings.
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May 2012
In the light of trees, in the colour of corals...
Trees – corals. So colouristically exotic in the Polish landscape, and yet of familiar, almost Mazovian shapes… Phenomenal pseudo-willows, artefact-like organisms glaring with internal energy. A colourful colony of luminous quasi-botanical specimens.
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December 2011
Holy Mother!
Jacek Łydżba treats religious symbols without any rebellion, personal disagreement or excessive rigour. As befits a pure-blood artist, he has his own vision and his own expression. He takes those gypsum figurines and dresses them up with garments in strong and expressive colours, emphasising their beauty and kitsch.
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December 2011
I had a dream
An atelier full of paintings – of life and dreams. No devising – intuition instead. There is no need to devise things as themes, since ideas just pop up on their own. And most often in sleep. Everyday life is reflected in dreams, and dreams can see themselves in the paintings.
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August 2011
An idea hidden in things
Buildings, edifices, objects. Anchored in our memory, in our thinking about cities, outskirts, in images of different journeys, in perception of a rural road, a sea shore, a terrace, a backyard. The roughness of concrete, the smell of timber, the vermillion of brick, the colour of neon. A house, a palace, a factory, a station. An arbour in the park, a gateway, a swimming pool, a springboard, a gasoline station. Light falling onto the floor, walls, the asphalt of the road. Encoded views, landscapes complemented with architecture.
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May 2011
Let’s go to sleep!
Curled up on bare ground, under navy blue skies, lulled by the silence of the night, the characters in Kasia Karpowicz’s paintings are calm and safe – locked in their own world of dreams. Meditative, oneiric pictures have their symbolic depth, the rhythm of a placid breath of a sleeping girl, a man, an animal.
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April 2011
Orbiting
For those who are seeking new places, experiences and heights. For art connoisseurs and party animals. Jacek Łydżba’s exhibition in Soho Factory – the trendiest destination in Warsaw’s Praga – is an invitation to enter an energetic orbit of painting. Łydżba seduces his audience with bold colours and a repertoire of his favourite motifs. This is going to be a gathering of gorgeous female cyclists, tamed wolves and cult aeroplanes. For one evening that huge post-industrial hall will be filled with paintings and Jacek’s male and female fans. The guests will also have a chance to enjoy beer and live music.
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March 2011
Objects
Following Joanna Pałys’s individual trail we are moved by a fading rhythm of “Nocturnes” and a bizarre harmony of a zigzag line of conveyor belts with almost cosmic space; we are struck by melancholy of monumental and quite mysterious architecture of recent “Objects”. This special painting sensitivity makes these paintings greatly expressive and this special way of perceiving the world makes them one of the most interesting entries in the young Polish culture.
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January 2011
State of affairs after 23 years (Bogna Gniazdowska & Mikołaj Kasprzyk)
To see what it’s like to live together and paint separately for 23 years, to judge ‘the state of affairs after 23 years’, one should visit the exhibition of works by Bogna Gniazdowska and Mikołaj Kasprzyk in the Konduktorownia Gallery in Czestochowa. Both being faithful to themselves, the artists keep autonomy of their own art.
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January 2011
State of affairs after 23 years (Mikołaj Kasprzyk & Bogna Gniazdowska)
To see what it’s like to live together and paint separately for 23 years, to judge ‘the state of affairs after 23 years’, one should visit the exhibition of works by Bogna Gniazdowska and Mikołaj Kasprzyk in the Konduktorownia Gallery in Czestochowa. Both being faithful to themselves, the artists keep autonomy of their own art.
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November 2010
All That Jazz
Portraits of musicians, bands and instruments by Krzysztof Kokoryn are being exhibited at the Levekusen Jazz Festival near Cologne. Kokoryn is excellent at translating sounds, rhythm and the concert atmosphere into the language of painting. Being a friend of many musicians (e.g. famous for Voo Voo’s videoclips), he does not paint without music.
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March 2010
Insomnia
When provincial Częstochowa is getting ready for bed, the painter – locked in his small flat – suffering from insomnia, has to work. He is painting a metropolis, big city lights, the city that never sleeps.
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May 2009
An Uncontrollable Midsummer Night’s Dream
After last year’s retrospective exhibition in BWA Gallery in Bielsko-Biała, Krzysztof Kokoryn was once more given space that allowed him to go crazy again. This time it was in the Slovak town of Liptovský Mikuláš, in Michal Bohun’s Gallery.
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May 2009
We'll kiss each other's lips
I do prefer to use photos. And we are all surrounded by them, aren’t we? These days people never stop taking photos with their mobile phones. That’s our world and this world inspires me.
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July 2008
Positive Vibrations
Guitarists and drummers, wild beasts, green grass and matted groves, plus a decent amount of alcohol (or what’s left of it) – bottles with colourful labels and a dose of energising music. Never before has such a broad retrospective of Krzysztof Kokoryn’s art been shown under one roof. In July 2008 the BWA Gallery in Bielsko-Biała presented a wide range of his artistic activities.
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June 2008
I Met a Friend (Darek Pala & Szymon Parafiniak)
The day on the beaches of Miami. The night in jazz clubs. Strong cocktails and a total blast. Darek Pala and Szymon Parafiniak meet at an exhibition at the Café Kulturalna.
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April 2008
On The Revolutions of Colours
Concentric circles with multicoloured fragments, overlapping colours, luminosity, spinning impressions and kaleidoscopic volatility – the geometric compositions of Małgorzata Jastrzębska stem from the experience of the great abstractionists of the twentieth century – Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia and Frantisek Kupka. In her paintings, the colour is the form and the motif and the luminous spheres of purple and cadmium yellow, rose and green, black and white unfold according to a rigorous structure.
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January 2008
Inventory
Jolanta Wagner’s art is simultaneously archetypal and modern. Her drawings’ primal essence contains a feminine-like monotonous weaving – a spider’s web of seemingly mechanically recorded events, thoughts and objects organized within a clearly legible system.
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September 2007
Kaleidoscope (Under the Stairs)
Małgorzata Jastrzębska has rejected picturesque-ness of orphism. Her forms have sharp edges – one can tell she uses a masking tape when painting to make the separation of the colours unequivocal and definite. Although she paints with a soft brush and oil paints it looks as if she was using a compass and a scalpel. There are mathematics and physics textbooks on the table in her studio.
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July 2007
Fabrique en Pologne a la francaise
A Paris-based concept store owned by Mateusz Korczyński – normally a boutique offering clothes, gadgets, music, newspapers and magazines – is periodically transformed into an art gallery, which, in July, housed an exhibition of paintings by Tomasz Karabowicz.
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July 2007
The Sepia Europe
A few years ago one of my acquaintances, a modern art and historic objects collector, showed me his last trophy he had bought from a Viennese antique dealer. It was a collection of old photographs. Over the several evenings that followed, we watched them together through a magnifying glass, scanned them producing maximum blowups so that we could see any and all details. It was fun, to an extent, but we wanted to solve the puzzle on the occasion.
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December 2006
MMVI
The title of this exhibition is a number. MMVI in Roman numerals stands for the year 2006. Although 2006 is the date of creation of all the paintings presented at this exhibition, indifference of their creator toward any problems of the year 2006 is his firm manifesto.
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June 2006
Picture is festivity
Krzysztof Kokoryn’s manners are that of an anarchist. Yuppies from all over Europe are crazy about his paintings, indeed, but to be invited by any of them to a chic dinner - he wouldn’t accept such kind of things. He’d reject it in favour of a glass of beer in a cheap pub in a company of the Academy students and friends - the maudits, misunderstood by the middle class.
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December 2005
Beaches of Sanibel
It was 13 years ago that Darek first walked into the gallery I run. He was a young graduate of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts then. I soon realized that collaboration with this artist would go far beyond the ordinary partnership of artist and gallery.
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November 2005
Provincial life
We long for provincial life: life that runs slowly, with quiet and unassuming happiness. Perfect provincial life exists in books by such authors as Bruno Schulz or William Faulkner. During a journey it may seem for a while that we see it from the train window.
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June 2005
The way young lovers do
For Agnieszka Sandomierz, as for several artists of her age, the starting point is a new pop-art. This can be seen in the frames of her paintings, in how substantive and ordinary they are. However, Agnieszka’s paintings exceed the limits of an impersonal pop-art. They tend to omit its rigours, rather than overcoming them.
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May 2005
Townscapes
What Maria Kiesner paints is townscapes. This classic painting genre has urban landscape and architecture as its topics. But Maria’s paintings tell us that architecture is not only there around us. It is also within us.
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March 2005
Colour games
Zofia Matuszczyk-Cygańska has just turned ninety of age. But her exhibition Colour games is not an occasional hand-made birthday greetings card. Although it is but one of some three hundred exhibitions in which she has taken part, it is an unique event indeed.
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December 2004
Scores with humans to play
A sketch, study, is one of the artist’s work stages. Before the final version of a work-of-art is produced, initial drawings of individual figures, objects, or landscape are needed. Such a work only emerges if and when those components get merged.
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May 2004
Nell' ombra del Sud
Katarzyna Castellini’s paintings is not a report from a trip to Italy. It used to be one, though, some time ago. But the report was rather strange. The artist is an intelligent observer; she has recorded in her paintings many scenes and characters of Italian provenance.
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March 2004
Virtual existence of non-existent objects
Darek Mlącki, the most sought-for wall-painting and trompe-l’oeil specialist, was just finishing the work commissioned at a residence off Warsaw. He was painting frescos inside a swimming-pool building. Suddenly, someone jogged the bucket and a beet-colour painted got spilled over the beautiful travertine wall cladding, imported all the way from Italy. This was a disaster.
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October 2003
Childishsly easy paintings
The paintings by Anna Podlewska: hermetic for some, whilst spontaneous and childishly easy for others. Whether the promise expressed in the exhibition’s title may be kept, will only depend upon ourselves.
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August 2003
Tulip fever
I first saw her tulips in 1992, in a small pub at Podkowa-Leśna. The painting hanged on the wall of a dark corridor, between the kitchen and the restroom. Next to the tulips, a sad cloakroom attendant was seated, unable to see that behind his head, the gate to a paradise was opening.
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May 2003
Girls
Adam Korszun likes to paint portraits. Their main characters are Girls – that is, closer and farther acquaintances of the artist, friends, dwellers of Biała-Podlaska. Adam conducts a never-ending casting session in his native town.
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March 2003
Chosen, arranged, secret...
I’ll never forget Łukasz’s first visit to our gallery. Two years ago he came in, straight from the street, just like that, with a sheaf of paintings under his arm. When he opened the portfolio and arranged an impromptu exhibition on the floor, I knew immediately that I wanted the pictures to stay. I couldn’t believe their author was just 24 years old. I had in front of me that rare phenomenon, early work which is already mature.
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December 2002
Aquaria
It was a year ago that Darek Pala first put up his easel in front of his aquarium. Instead of going on an exotic trip or just diving into the nearby ocean, he set up a home aquarium and started painting what he saw in it.
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November 2002
Under the Volcano
The Universe has perhaps not ceased to expand, but Adam’s Cosmos has long ago shrunk, assuming a safe size. For Adam, the horizon of Being is set forth by the floor-area of his bachelor flat. And it is within these confines that Adam amends the Creation.
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July 2002
A dried lake
A realist painter – a young realist painter – that doesn’t sound very interesting nowadays, does it? Tomasz Karabowicz paints what he sees; he has narrowed down his artistic exploration to two forms: portrait and still life. They bear the stamp of his own mode of perception, which produces interesting effects.
I suppose it is restricting myself
, says the artist,but within this restricted area of mine I can set myself so many aims that there are enough of them to last a lifetime. My subjects – still life, portrait – are immemorial
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May 2002
Air show
Hawker Fury. The name was coined to add, or inspire, terror. In reality, the machine’s structure was tiny and rather delicate. The gentlemen who mounted it used to paint coloured chequered patterns on it. As if the plane was not supposed to fight, but rather, to race. These days, in the time of those flying buses, Hawker Fury’s shapely silhouette evokes nostalgic associations: with the ‘retro’ age indeed, the one of The English Patient, or, Farewell to Africa. But then, it did seem futuristic. Elegant, and cold. Pilots used to like Hawker Fury but treated it with respect, considering it to be an elitist plane.
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March 2002
Golgotha
There are several reasons for which I have decided to show you some sculptures by Leszek Jasiński.
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February 2002
Solapas de contratienda
Ciro Beltrán has something about himself which is called obsession by some, or mission by others. While talking to people, he would often mention ”hiding” and ”discovering”. He strives for discovering the truth, the one spelled with a block ”T”.
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September 2001
Polish cities. Works from 1966-1969
Edward Dwurnik painted his Moje podwórko (My Yard) in 1985 as he was back from his yearly scholarship in Germany. After his stay in the West he could all the more painfully feel a contrast between the European level of life and the Eastern-European style. His family town of Radzymin was, according to his paintings, a symbol of all that Eastern-European anarchy, chaos, and mess.
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July 2001
Metamorphosis
To be an artist in our times is to travel. The starting point of Agnieszka’s travels was her studio in her parents’ home in Gdynia. The house stood on a cliff over the sea. The studio, like studies in Romantic villas, had windows on four sides. One only had to lean out a bit further and set off on a journey.
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March 2001
Paintings about people
Here is a list of activities in which the heroes of Mikolaj Kasprzyk’s paintings engage: playing tag, dancing, chasing birds, tight-rope walking, skipping, juggling.
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November 2000
Beginning
When I first saw Aleksandra Waliszewska’s self-portraits, painted on scraps of cardboard, I felt as if I had blown off the dust covering a real treasure.
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December 1999
Blue Bird
I am a busy man and don’t quite much socialise with others. So when I recognised my own self in a picture by Kokoryn, I was astonished. To get portrayed by Kokoryn has been a privilege o musicians, vagabonds, storytellers sitting around joints, or, young girls; at least this is what I always thought.
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November 1998
Pala adieu
Do Darek Pala’s latest paintings deserve special attention? Or is the exhibition, Pala adieu, just a courteous farewell gesture on the part of the gallery towards an artist who’s moving across the ocean?
