During each edition of the Fair we award prizes for the most interesting stand of ancient and contemporary art. In this way, we try to appreciate the exposition, presentation of galleries, and distinguishing exhibitors.
This year we awarded:
The most interesting stand of contemporary art:
The most interesting stand of ancient art:
N7. Sarmatia antiques
The Fair is not only a place for paintings on the walls. It is a place of meeting of people, conversations about art, and interesting discussions with artists.
Here are some of them who visited our Fair. We know very well that there were many more of them.
Warsaw Art Fair is coming soon.
We encourage you to familiarise yourselves with the list of exhibitors and an interesting program. Meetings with artists, Jerzy Nowosielski’s exhibition, or perhaps an exhibition of more than 1000 pieces of art?
All that, and even more, on October 11-13, 2019.
Welcome
Tickets for the event available on: goingapp.pl
fot. Jerzy Nowosielski, Pejzaż, 1985, 50 x 70 cm
PROGRAM FOR THE 17TH WARSAW ART FAIR
Opening hours:
Friday: 17:00-20:00
Saturday: 11:00-20:00
Sunday: 11:00-18:00
Friday
17.00 – 17.30 – Grand Opening
17.30 – 18.30
Lecture: „Między abstrakcją a figuracją – dwujęzyczność Jerzego Nowosielskiego” hosted by dr Krystyna Czerni.
Saturday
12.00 – 13.00
Meeting with an artist: World success of the Polish poster. Meeting with an outstanding creator of posters – Andrzej Pągowski, will be hosted by a journalist: Weronika Wawrzkowicz – Nasternak.
13.30 – 14.00
Jubilee: Andzelm Gallery, Gallery of Contemorary Art from Lublin (stand no. 7) on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their activity invites you for a glass of champagne.
14.00
Award: the solemn award of the annual „Collecting – learning and promotion” Award of Feliks Jasieński for 2018.
15.00 – 16.00
Meeting with an artist: Leon Tarasewicz – on of the most significant contemporary Polish artists; hosted by Małgorzata Piwowar, journalist.
16.30 – 17.00
Meeting with an artist: prof. Stanisław Wieczorek. Master will present his works at the stand of the Art Gallery on Prosta st. (stand no. 37).
17.00 – 18.00
Promotion of the book: „Krytyk jako dzieło sztuki” [“Critic as a work of art”] – by the appreciated art critic Jan Michalski; hosted by Łukasz Radwan (TVN journalist)
Sunday
11.45 – 12.30
Lecture: dedicated to the unique exhibition „Poland 1840-1918. To illustrate the spirit of the nation” in the Musée du Louvre-Lens in France led by the curators of the National Museum in Warsaw: Iwona Danielewicz i dr hab. Agnieszka Rosales-Rodríguez (in the National Museum in Warsaw she is a curator of the Polish Art Collectoins until 1914).
12.30 – 13.00
Meeting with an artist: Polish premiere of Szymon Brodziak’s photo album “You are what you see” in Brodziak Gallery (stand no. 15).
13.00 – 13.45
Meeting with an artist: On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the invention of photography, Czesław Czapliński, an acclaimed photographer, will present portraits and stories of the most outstanding photographers from the world and Poland which he met and photographed in more than 40 years.
13.15 – 13.45
Jubilee: Artemis – Gallery of Contemorary Art from Cracow (stand no. 10) on the occasion of the 25thanniversary of their activity invites you for a glass of champagne.
13.45 – 14.15
Meeting with an artist: Limited Edition Gallery from Warsaw (stand no. 17) invites for a meeting with Józef Wilkoń and a promotion of an artistic book „Ach te Baby”.
14.30 – 15.30
Discussion panel: The style of Zakopane – still inspiring for artists? – moderator Stanisław Cukier, sculptor, long-time director of the Zespołu Szkół Plastycznych im. A. Kenara and sculptors – graduates of the school, Bronisław Krzysztof and Marcin Rząsa.
15:30-16:00
Meeting with Joanna Hubner-Wojciechowska, the author of the book “Sztuka Skalnego Podhala.”
16.00 – 17.00
Discussion panel: Why create and own art? Why is art important in the context of psychology and psychology in the conext of art? Specialists from different fields will talk about what Lew Tolstoy called the “infectious emotionality” of art. Poland is a pioneer in the conduct of art therapy.
Moderator – Katarzyna Sroczyńska (journalist) and dr hab. prof. nadz. UAP Robert Bartel (arttherapist, artist), dr Julia E. Wahl (psychologist) and Karolina M. Wojciechowska (lawyer).
17.00
Prize: a draw of 3 business cards of our guests to choose winners of Zbigniew Beksiński’s graphics.
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“The Warsaw Art Fair will be accompanied by an exhibition of works by Jerzy Nowosielski and photographs by Jan Styczyński, who captured the artist at work, at home or during his walks in Cracow. An album titles “Pantheon”, where Jerzy Nowosielski is one of the heroes, will be also available. The presented photographs are from the album prepared by the Warszawska Galeria Obserwacja. At the stand of the gallery (no. 19) you will be able to purchase a set of the above-mentioned photographies in collector’s form (a set of 10 photographs) as well as the said album.”
Come to the 17th Warsaw Art Fair and win one of his works
October, 11-13,
the Kubicki Arcades.
During the Fair we collect business cards of our guests. On Sunday at 17.00 we will draw 3 business cards, whose owners will receive the graphics of Zdzisław Beksiński. We will iform the winners by the phone.
More than 60 galleries of conetmporary and ancient art, meetings with artists, lectures on art, an exhibition of Jerzy Nowosielski and other attractions!
An unforgettable weekedn with the best art.
An interesting discussion panel dedicated to psychology in art will take place on Sunday (October 13, 2019) at 16.00 in our lecture hall.
Art therapy, Why create and own art? Why is art important in the context of psychology and psychology in the context of art? Specialists from different fields will talk about what Lew Tolstoy called the “infectious emotionality” of ast. Poland is a pioneer in the conduct of art therapy. Moderator – Katarzyna Sroczyńska (journalist), Prof. Robert Bartel (arttherapist, artist), Dr. Julia E. Wahl (psychologist) and Karolina M. Wojciechowska (art manager).
Karolina M. Wojciechowska
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. Legal advisor, specializes in copyright law – she teaches at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design. She ran courses in copyright in such places as the Centre for Conemporary Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Co-author of the book “Copyright in cultural institutions”, which was puclished by Beck Publishing House. She runs the Foundation of the name of Ryszard Kapuściński – Herodot. She runs her own publishing house – Blue Bird.
She works for writers, photographers, painters, advertising agencies, publishing houses, literary agencies, photographic archives, foundations operating within the culture, musicians, music producers, producers of performances, stage artists.
She comines the skills of a lawyer with the experience in practical aspects of the application of creativity. Over the years, she co-hosted the Green Gallery in Warsaw.
Katarzyna Sroczyńska
Deputy editor-in-chief of the quarterly “Przekrój”. For almost twenty years she has been professionally shortening, writing and asking questions, sometimes writing, often chasing others to work. Between sitting in subsequent editorials (including monthly “Focus” and “Coaching” magazine) she co-created the Archive of Spoken History at the Chancellery of the Senate of Poland and conducted trainings for journalists. She teaches Polish to foreigners, most recently refugees. In “Przekrój”, she fights for peace and tries to lead a healthy lifestyle – unfortunately, sometimes they are impossible to combine.
dr hab. prof. nadzw. UAP Robert Bartel
Artetherapist, member of the board of the Artetherapy Section of the Polish Psychiatric Society in Warsaw and the Association of Psychiatry and Art in Cracow and a member of the Polish Association of Therapy by Art in Lublin. At the University of Arts in Poznań, he conducts lectures on Visual Psychophysiology, Arttherapy and Creative Development classes as well as arttherapy based on mindfulness.
In the years 2001-2018 he ran the Workshop of Therapy through Art at the Regional Hospital Dziekanka in Gniezno for nervously and mentally ill. He co-organized or curated sixty art exhibitions created by people with mental disorders. He is the author of monographs and thirty publications in textbooks and other publishing items. Since 2016, he has been conducting research in the team of Prof. Dr. Janusz Rybakowski and Prof. Dr. Filip Rybakowski at the Department of Adult Psychiatry of the Medical University of Poznań. He actively cooperates with such institutions as the Academy of Special Pedagogy of M. Grzegorzewska in Warsaw, Warsaw Medical University, Medical University im. K. Marcinkowski in Poznań, Higher School of Social Psychology.
He also deals with painting, graphics, drawing, object and spatial arrangements He has had more than thirty individual exhibitions and has taken part in many collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
dr Julia E. Walh
Psychologist, researcher, trainer of the approaches to mindfulness and compassion. Co-originator and co-organizer of the conference “1st Conference on Practical Application of Buddhism in Western Psychology. Mindfulness: Theory and Practice” and co-founder of the Polish Mindfulness Society and the Polish Association for Psychotherapy Integration, founder and director of The Mind Institute. She graduated in training for teachers “MBSR in Mind-Body Medicine” conducted by well-known therapists – Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. She was supervised by Prof. Christopher Germer (Harvard Medical School), Maria Marquardt, Wanda Paszkiewicz
She conducted and supervised more than one hundred 8-week mindfulness and compassion trainings in Poland and the UK, meditation retreats, workshops. Associated with the University of Derby (UK), where she created a training program for oncology patients (as part of a doctorate). She runs lectures, most recently on the International Conference on Mindfulness (Amsterdam, July 10-13, 2018). Author of scientific articles. He also works with popular magazines such as: Przekrój, Charaktery, Psychologie und Leben, Newsweek Psychologia, Mindfulness Magazine (lead editor). Author of the book “About Compassion. Back to sensitivity and strength” (Charaktery Publishing House).
Jan Michalski (Zderzak Gallery) has been present at our Art Fair for many years. For years, among interesting galatian objects, he has been also presenting his books. This year, a meeting promoting his latest book will take place at the Fair.
„Krytyk jako dzieło sztuki” [“Critic as a work of art”] is a selection of 82 critic’s texts from 1985-2019, published in “Znak” and other magazines, in catalogues and specialized publications. These include extensive cross-sectional essays such as “We break out into the wild and transform” (about the young art of the 90s), “The Station ‘Solidarity’ “, “Gruppa Titleomania”, “Transition to History”, “Visions of salvation in Wróblewski’s art”, as well as reviews, stories, chronicles, fantastic biographies, polemics. The reader will find in the book the solution for several great puzzles of Polish art: who and when destroyed “Rozstrzelanie II”, to whom and why the painting of Jurry Zielinski “Wyzwolicielom Warszawy” was dedicated. In the foreword “Fate and misery of art criticism”, the author talks about his adventures on the aboveness of criticism, about the journalistic campaigns he conducted, and shows the aesthetic and philosophical assumptions that guided him.
We cordially invite you to meet Jan Michalski on Saturday 12.10.2019 at 17.00. Lecture hall of the 17th Warsaw Art Fair.
We already know the first lectures that will take place during the 17th Warsaw Art Fair.
On Saturday (12.10.2019) at 12.00, there will be a meeting with the outstanding creator of posters – Andrzej Pągowski, which will be hosted by Weronika Wawrzkowicz-Nasternak.
Andrzej Pągowski
Graduated from PWSSP in Poznan. Author of more than 1400 posters released in print since 1977 in Poland and abroad. In addition, he deals with book and press illustration, is the author of covers of record publishing houses, theatrical and television set design, scripts of films and music videos. He paints. He won numerous Polish and international awards, including the Hollywood Reporter Competition in Los Angeles (The Best of Show Award, six times gold medal, several silver, bronze and distinctions) and the Chicago International Film Festival (Silver Hugo Prize and many others). He presented his works at many individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His posters may be found in the MoMA collections in New York and San Francisco, as well as the Pompidou Center in Paris. MoMA has placed a poster of “Smile of the Wolf” among the 100 most important works of modern art in the MoMA collection.
Weronika Wawrzkowicz-Nasternak
Dziennikarka radiowa, prasowa i telewizyjna. Swoje programy prowadziła m.in. w TVN Style, TVN Warszawa i Canal +. Była głosem Radia PiN i ZET Chilli. Aktualnie felietonistka Magazynu Filmowego i twórczyni bloga Rozmawiam, bo lubię. Współautorka książki „Lizbona. Miasto, które przytula”.
We already know the first lectures that will take place during the 17th Warsaw Art Fair.
On Saturday (12.10.2019) at 12.00, there will be a meeting with the outstanding creator of posters – Andrzej Pągowski, which will be hosted by Weronika Wawrzkowicz-Nasternak.
Andrzej Pągowski
Graduated from PWSSP in Poznan. Author of more than 1400 posters released in print since 1977 in Poland and abroad. In addition, he deals with book and press illustration, is the author of covers of record publishing houses, theatrical and television set design, scripts of films and music videos. He paints. He won numerous Polish and international awards, including the Hollywood Reporter Competition in Los Angeles (The Best of Show Award, six times gold medal, several silver, bronze and distinctions) and the Chicago International Film Festival (Silver Hugo Prize and many others). He presented his works at many individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His posters may be found in the MoMA collections in New York and San Francisco, as well as the Pompidou Center in Paris. MoMA has placed a poster of “Smile of the Wolf” among the 100 most important works of modern art in the MoMA collection.
Weronika Wawrzkowicz-Nasternak
Dziennikarka radiowa, prasowa i telewizyjna. Swoje programy prowadziła m.in. w TVN Style, TVN Warszawa i Canal +. Była głosem Radia PiN i ZET Chilli. Aktualnie felietonistka Magazynu Filmowego i twórczyni bloga Rozmawiam, bo lubię. Współautorka książki „Lizbona. Miasto, które przytula”.
Radio, press and television journalist. She ran her programs in TVN Style, TVN Warszawa and Canal +. She was the voice of Radio PiN and ZET Chilli. Currently a columnist for Magazyn Filmowy and a creator of blog Rozmawiam, bo lubię [I talk because I like it]. Co-author of the book „Lizbona. Miasto, które przytula” [“Lisbon. A city that hugs.”]
the 22nd Warsaw Art Fair EXPO XXI, Prądzyńskiego 12/14 28-30 november 2025
Opening hours
Friday 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. VIP preview
Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
How to get to Fair:
Buses: PKP Wola: 105, 109, 178, 255
136, 186, 414, 523
(5 min piechotą ul. Bema)
ul. Kolejowa : 103
