Running through Sunday at Warsaw's historic neo-Baroque Gawroński Villa, the event features paintings, sculpture, installations, video and photography by more than 80 artists, alongside a program of performances, concerts and bilingual guided tours.
Twenty of this year’s participating galleries are Polish, while 30 have arrived from abroad, including London's Hollybush Gardens, New York's Situations, Budapest's acb Gallery and Berlin's GNYP Gallery.
The line-up was selected by NADA, the New York-based organization known for its Miami art fair.
“We want to highlight art from Central and Eastern Europe, so visitors will see strong representation from the Czech Republic, the Baltic states and Ukraine,” local co-organizer Joanna Witek-Lipka said.
Kyiv’s Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by Nikita Kadan and others examining conflict and identity, while three Tbilisi galleries present Georgian artists, including queer-themed stained-glass pieces by David Apakidze.
Site-specific commissions engage directly with the villa’s 1920s interiors. Photographer Nicolas Grospierre greets visitors with a light installation riffing on architectural details, and the London-based Hollybush Gardens gallery has installed Turner Prize–winner Jasleen Kaur’s monumental Alter Altar and a red Ford Escort draped in a giant hand-crocheted doily evoking immigrant experience.
Outdoor works fill the garden, where Polish and international artists have mounted large-scale sculptures alongside a hand-built concept car.
Last year’s inaugural NADA Villa Warsaw exhibition drew almost 11,000 visitors in five days.
Entry is free.
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Source: PAP