Six Artists in the Spotlight at Warsaw Gallery Weekend

This year, Warsaw Gallery Weekend (September 18-20) and WGW+, which includes participants without permanent spaces in the Polish capital, features more than 60 exhibitions. Here are six standout solo shows now on view.

Adam Kozicki - Everyone at War With Everyone Else

Until January 10, 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Kozicki takes on the restless pulse of today’s Internet, where culture wars unfold without end and fragmented streams of information generate controversy and conspiracies.

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Sana Shahmuradova Tanska - Who Promised It Was Going to Be Alright? We Never Did. Indeed (History Knows No “If”)

September 18 - November 7

Gunia Nowik Gallery

Shahmuradova Tanska's new works draw on Ukrainian mythology to confront the violence of war.

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Julia Platt - Arriving, Leaving

September 18 - October 31

Polana Institute

Platt explores her past and the difficult passage into adulthood, shaped by her mother’s long, incurable illness.

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Paulina Olowska - THREE COLOURS

September 18 - November 7

Foksal Gallery Foundation

Olowska engages with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s film trilogy Blue, White, Red, which refers to liberty, equality and fraternity, the motto of the French Republic.

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Zofia Pałucha - Mother of One

September 18 - November 7

HOS Gallery

Pałucha's paintings, which resemble a crime-scene report or X-ray photograph, address the reductive labels that define women in the digital world.

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Laurie Simmons - 1998: Uncanny Valley

September 18 - October 31

Import Export

Simmons' longstanding inquiry into the real and the uncanny takes a novel twist in Autofiction, her recent series of works created with an AI model she calls her “new collaborator”.

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