Hotel Warszawa Art Fair 2026

As a co-organizer of Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, Gunia Nowik Gallery warmly invites you to the fifth edition of the fair, where we’re pleased to present works by Jędrzej Bieńko, Agata Bogacka, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, and Anna Orłowska. Bringing together painting, sculpture, and photography, the presentation explores how materials carry traces of experience, gesture, and time, revealing forms shaped through accumulation and process rather than fixed narratives.

Jędrzej Bieńko's atmospheric paintings unfold through muted airbrushed forms that hover between appearance and disappearance, evoking fragility, impermanence, and the instability of perception. Agata Bogacka's layered abstractions reflect on the tensions that shape contemporary experience, where gradients and subtle shifts in color become visual records of resistance, dependency, and transformation. Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg's sculptural reliefs merge handcrafted gestures with industrial production, turning familiar symbols of beauty into objects that question labor, artifice, and cultural convention. Anna Orłowska's photographs consider the ways in which personal histories become inseparable from place, material culture, and collective memory.

Together, the four artists reveal how meaning is not fixed within an image or object, but emerges through material, process, and time. The presentation invites viewers to consider painting, sculpture, and photography as sites where processes of making, memory, and transformation remain visible, even as their meanings continue to evolve.

Jędrzej Bieńko

Painter, born in 2000 in Warsaw. His work combines a refined airbrush technique with a distinctive pictorial language rooted in symbolic imagery and a muted, earthy palette. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2025), he paints on raw, unprimed linen, allowing the material’s natural texture to play an active role in each composition. Bieńko’s paintings unfold within a dreamlike, sfumato-blurred landscape where boundaries—between humans, animals, and the natural world—are fluid and porous. These painterly tableaus suggest not only strange fairy tales or carnivalesque inversions, but also subtle meditations on intimacy, subjectivity, and the interdependence of all living things. He lives and works in Warsaw.

Agata Bogacka

Painter, born in 1976 in Warsaw. After she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2001, she quickly became known for her highly stylized, synthetic, figurative paintings – "a painterly diary of mental states” in which she noted down emotions and feelings she had for her near and dear ones. Over time, her paintings evolved and direct references to reality or fragments of reality became increasingly abstract. Her most recent works are based on configuration of planes with the use of tonal transition. The gradient she uses symbolizes blurring and setting the boundaries, while directly referencing complex relations existing between people. These relations can be understood more broadly, include various modes of coexistence: political, social, oppressive, or conciliatory. She lives and works in Warsaw.

Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg Kleytman

Sculptor, born in 1987 in Bonn, Germany. She studied at the HfBK, Hamburg University of Fine Arts and completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, UDK, where she studied with Manfred Pernice. Welding, forging, and lacquering the works herself, her labor-intensive practice involves industrial tools and production techniques. The playfulness of shapes and colors in addition to the influence of pop culture contradict the often heavy, cold materials (steel, aluminum, plastic). Interested in the push and pull relationship between the real and the abstract, furniture and other domestic objects and materials serve as an anchor upon which she can experiment. She lives and works in Berlin.