Hotel Warszawa Art Fair 2025

As part of the 4th edition of the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, Gunia Nowik Gallery is pleased to present works by Jędrzej Bieńko, Agata Bogacka, and Alina Kleytman. Bringing together painting, sculpture, and video, the presentation explores the entangled dynamics of power, vulnerability, and transformation—both individual and collective—within the charged, intimate architecture of the hotel room.

Jędrzej Bieńko’s haunting compositions evoke dreamlike states where human and non-human forms dissolve into one another. Rendered in subdued tones on raw linen, his paintings reflect on mortality, empathy, and the porous boundaries between self and other. They offer a quiet meditation on unity in the face of fragmentation and loss.

Agata Bogacka’s abstract paintings use smooth tonal transitions—gradients—as both formal strategies and metaphors for negotiation: between presence and absence, agency and constraint. Built through careful layering, erasure, and revision, her compositions retain traces of earlier gestures, suggesting memory as a site of tension and transformation. Fields of color appear to confront or bypass one another, evoking the psychological and political dynamics of division, and the fragile conditions of connection.

Alina Kleytman’s sculptural and video works confront trauma and domination through a grotesque and often darkly ironic lens. Her “hysterical realism” blends materiality and mythology, turning objects of mourning, fetish, and ritual into tactile expressions of survival and dissent. In the confined space of the hotel, her hybrid forms act as both relics and ruptures—monuments to memory and defiance. In the frame of HWAF, Kleytman will launch a limited-run book expanding on her recent solo exhibition, THE GREATEST SHOW.

Together, the works of Bieńko, Bogacka, and Kleytman form a psychological and symbolic landscape—one that negotiates tenderness and violence, dissolution and repair. The room becomes a site of emotional and political entanglement, where boundaries are redrawn and meaning remains in flux.