Konrad Krzyżanowski, Andrii Rachynskyi

At this year’s Warsaw Gallery Weekend, TBA Gallery presents an exhibition by the duo of Konrad Krzyżanowski (2001) — a contemporary Polish painter, for whom this will be the first major presentation in Warsaw — and Andrii Rachynskyi (1990), a Ukrainian artist who, following his participation in the 2024 Venice Biennale, will be showing his work more extensively in Poland for the first time.

This is a meeting of two distinct artistic languages, each moving along the boundary between what is visible and what is remembered. The exhibition doesn’t document or tell linear stories. Krzyżanowski and Rachynskyi share a space in which their images intermingle and resonate with one another. They are connected by a shared tension — between experience and its trace, between the gesture and what remains after it.

Krzyżanowski’s paintings resemble the structure of memory — layered from fragments that don’t form a coherent narrative. His works echo something that happened beyond the frame, but still resonates within us. Rachynskyi works with the bromoil technique, which lends his images the quality of fleeting memories — something appears and then disappears, leaving behind only a shadow or trace of presence.

It’s a story about presence that persists even in absence. About images that don’t show directly, but stay with us long after. About a gaze that doesn’t end with the eye, but continues — in the body, in space, in the tension in between.