Fryderyk Kądziela (b. 1994 in Tarnów) works in painting and object, having graduated this year from Bogusław Bachorczyk’s 3rd Interdisciplinary Studio at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He paints from imagination, frequently employing figures characteristic of fable or myth. His spatial forms are...
After staying home for over a year your dreams, beliefs and needs change forever. You’ve been told you can save the world by neglecting your friends, denying human contact in any other form than online, and by lying all day long in bed streaming TV shows. Roderick...
Dear! On the 30th of April 1999, we launched the Olympia Gallery. The first exhibition bore a simple title: Janusz Knorowski, malarstwo [Janusz Knorowski. Painting]. The artist from Warsaw installed his paintings in a tiny room on Koletek street in Krakow. In no time, the gallery interior...
Bogland in a house full of epidermis. Home atherosclerosis, diabetic coma. Scraping by. Purring kisses, blushes, duvets, cold floor and weakness at the knees. Something is leaning out, something is oozing, something suffocates. Hypnotic noiseless mucus. Tangled-haired figures – a shimmering shag basking in the setting sun....
For a week we open the space where you would be able to turn off your eyesight. We are inviting you to a travel through your other senses, especially to bask in touch and sensation. Those are the first senses helping us to explore the world, however...
Artists: Karol Palczak, Bogumił Książek, Anna Grochowska, Tomasz Vetulani, Władysław Markowski, Magdalena Kościsz, Albert Jeżowski (Art brut), Piotr Bogatka, Joanna Sitarz, Piotr Bartula (the philosopher). special guest from Warsaw: Wiki Królikowska. Curator: Olimpia Maciejewska
The work of Adam Rzepecki is an installation. An installation is made of a twisted, wet cotton rope to which six infusion containers with water and pigments are attached. The liquids made of a mixture of water and pigments correspond to the six colours of the rainbow...
I focus for a moment on those seconds that have stuck in my memory. Somewhere very deep. I want to capture them so that everyone can see them, feel them, absorb them. It is impossible to get a perfect message, but this awareness makes me want it...
After the "sociability" of the 2019 Krakow Art Salon, Galeria Olympia has the courage to propose friendliness as a functional category of art. This is the mission of the Galeria Olympia, which tirelessly strengthens artists' relations with other artists, artists with curators, artists with recipients, curators with...
The presented photographic landscapes were made between Lake Constance and the Danube River. Landscape as a subject has existed in my paintings for a long time. Such inspirations appeared for the first time in a series of my oil paintings entitled Pastwiska (Grazing Land), which I did...