2025 | NADA Villa Warsaw

Daniel Rycharski

For NADA Villa Warsaw 2025, Gunia Nowik Gallery presents Winter Garden 3 (2024), an outdoor sculptural installation by Polish conceptual artist Daniel Rycharski (b. 1986). Deeply rooted in rural environments, Rycharski’s practice explores the intersections of tradition and modernity, identity and transformation, faith and queerness. His work directly engages local communities, often repurposing agricultural materials to create artworks that challenge and expand prevailing narratives of life in the countryside in contrast to urban realities.

Premiering in the overgrown garden of Villa Gawrońskich, Winter Garden 3 features oversized metal flowers crafted from discarded farming tools sourced from Rycharski’s native village of Kurówko. Transformed through a systematic yet vibrant color palette, the obsolete implements become striking symbols of resilience and renewal. The installation underscores tensions between past and present, utility and aesthetics, while engaging with discourses on labor, rural modernization, and the erasure of agrarian traditions. Rycharski’s site-responsive work poetically reflects on pressing cultural and existential questions, inviting contemplation on the future of communities historically defined by their connection to the land.