Hotel Warszawa Art Fair
9 – 11 September 2022
Hotel Warszawa
Plac Powstańców Warszawy 9
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair is the city’s first contemporary art fair to be hosted on the premises of an iconic hotel that hails back to the pre-war history of Poland’s capital city. One entire floor of the Hotel Warszawa will bring together art collectors and the public at large for a unique show of contemporary art curated by 20 individual galleries, featuring dozens of works from Polish and international artists. The Hotel Warszawa Art Fair is also a platform for curators, critics and audiences to interact and exchange ideas on art, and to participate in discussions with leading artists and curators.
Jednostka Gallery prepared an individual show of Linda Lach’s latest works entitled “When Things Strike Back” for the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. The presentation is meant as a performance, the artist transforms a hotel room into her private space. The paintings, drawings and objects were inspired by the “Trans-Line” project, which premiered in the spring of 2022 at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. The artist creates a program that measures the probability of exchanging life with another person. Its purpose is to analyze the human relationship with the digital world, the encoded portrait that is made by algorithms based on data provided by the user.
The works are the result of the artist’s interaction with the program and its (material and immaterial) creations. They are a reflection of both the creator (her self-portrait) and the project, separate entities constituting a “safety valve” for Lach. The artist, who works at the interface between art and science, sees herself as a mediator between the digital world and physical everyday life.
Linda Lach’s work is a deeply humanistic reflection on human identity in the world of false, digital, evolution.
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Friday, 9 September: Press & VIP Preview
– Admission by invitation only
Saturday and Sunday, 10 – 11 September: Public days, 12 – 7 pm
– Free Admission
Participating galleries:
Biuro Wystaw | Dawid Radziszewski Gallery | Fundacja Galerii Foksal | Galeria Le Guern | Gunia Nowik Gallery | Import Export | Instytut Fotografii Fort | Jednostka | LETO | lokal_30 | Galeria Monopol | Olszewski Gallery | Piktogram | Polana Institute | Fundacja Profile | Raster | STEREO | Szydłowski | Śmierć Człowieka | Wschód
Program and accompanying events:
Starak Family Foundation | Spectra Art Space | Starak Collection:
– Presentation of projects, exhibitions and publications.
– Video guide tour by Ewa Kuryluk of the exhibition “I, White Kangaroo” – official Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw:
– Presentation of the association’s activities and artist editions.
– Screening of films about Warsaw from the Polish Archive of Home Movies. Author: Maciej Drygas, Curator: Katarzyna Karwańska
BMW DRIVES CULTURE:
Over 50 years of worldwide culture & arts engagement
– BMW x MICHAEL HANSMEYER
– BMW x NICK KNIGHT
– BMW x JEFF KOONS
Saturday 10.09
2 PM | guided tour in English with Katie Zazenski
3 PM | guided tour in Polish with Jarosław Trybuś
4 PM | “I, White Kangaroo” – online talk with Ania Muszyńska, Starak Collection & Spectra Art Space curator with artist Ewa Kuryluk
Sunday 11.09
2 PM | guided tour in Polish
4 PM | guided tour in English
Due to a limit of places, please book your tour under: info@hotelwarszawaartfair.com
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The event has been made possible thanks to a collaboration between gallerists Gunia Nowik from the Gunia Nowik Gallery, Marta Kołakowska from LETO, Justyna Wesołowska and Marika Zamojska from the Polana Institute, along with the Likus Hotel and Restaurant Group.
CO-FOUNDERS:
Gunia Nowik Gallery, Polana Institute, LETO, Hotel Warszawa
MAIN PARTNER:
BMW
PARTNERS:
Vouge Polska, Ipopema, Fundacja Rodziny Staraków, Spectra Art Space, Friends of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Artinfo.pl, Contemporary Lynx, Ruinart
Linda Lach, Note #1, 2022, 60,5 x 74 cm, print on recycled aluminium
Linda Lach, FORGOTTEN, 2022, 140 x 100 cm, mixed media, canvas, aluminium, steel holder