For Paris Internationale 2025, Gunia Nowik Gallery is pleased to show a duo-presentation of works by Iza Tarasewicz (b. 1981, Białystok, Poland) and Jędrzej Bieńko (b. 2000, Warsaw), forming an intergenerational dialogue that explores porous bodies, suspended systems, and the unstable contours of matter and meaning. Tarasewicz’s Halt the Cyclone sculptures—modular compositions of oxidized steel, concrete, hemp fiber, ash, and pigment—appear as post-industrial relics, tense with stillness amid collapse. In contrast, Bieńko’s airbrushed paintings drift between figuration and erasure, their fleshy atmospheres conjuring figures that seem to dissolve on contact. Both artists treat pigment as something more than surface—an elemental residue, a carrier of metamorphosis—and approach structure as mutable: not fixed, but charged with entropy, emotion, and ecological entanglement. Between collapse and transformation, their works hold space for doubt, flux, and the unstable logics of perception.
Iza Tarasewicz
Born in 1981 in Białystok, Poland. Her sculptural installations take the form of modular, flexible, mobile, and reconfigurable display systems that combine a raw and modest functionalism with formal logics found in the natural world, scientific experimentation, and graphs and diagrams — figures of thought and charts of relation that systematize knowledge and data and abstractly describe the interaction of phenomena. The artist gets inspiration for her work from the atomism of classical Greek philosophy and from the reality-explanations of 20th-century quantum physics and chaos-theory. Her statues and object-assemblages that may be combined into installations are generated into systems filled with energy, formed from hardly identifiable organic and inorganic materials. She lives and works in Kolonia Koplany, Poland.
Iza Tarasewicz, Halt the Cyclone 5, 2016, oxidized steel, concrete, pigments, hemp fibre, ash, 119 x 111 x 111 cm, 46 7/8 x 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
Iza Tarasewicz
Halt the Cyclone 4
2016
oxidized steel, concrete, pigments, hemp fibre, ash
76 x 87 x 108 cm
29 7/8 x 34 1/4 x 42 1/2 in
Iza Tarasewicz
Halt the Cyclone 1
2016
steel, concrete, pigments, hemp fibre, ash
110 x 93 x 37 cm
43 1/4 x 36 5/8 x 14 5/8 in
Solo exhibitions:
2024
Eternal Machine, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
It is stable? Yes. It is unstable? Yes, again. Unstable? Yes, again., Common Arts Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Illusions of Omnipotence: Architecture and Daily Life under German Occupation, ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań, Poland
New Darkness, Galeria SKALA, Poznań, Poland
Them (with Zuza Golińska), Galeria EL, Elbląg, Poland
2023
Stories of Lasting (with Agata Bogacka), Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Them (with Zuza Golińska), The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland
2022
The Rumble of a Tireless Land, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibition is accompanied by a movement-based work The Rumble by Polish dancer and choreographer Pawel Sakowicz. Responding to the forms and rhythms of the exhibition, the performance invokes a contemporary language for Mazurka (a Polish folk dance) and its traditional cyclical revolutions; exploring acentric vocals and footwork that figuratively represent machines running out of control. Performed by Aniela Piasecka, Hayleigh Smillie, and Daniel Navarro Lorenzo. Sound mix by Gediminas Rimeika.
2021
Battling with Malevolent Forces (with Alice Creischer), Signal – Center för samtidskonst, Malmö, Sweden
Signal Flow, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
Full Circle Ahead!, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
The Means, The Milieu, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2020
Disturbances and Multiplicities, PGS Sopot, Poland
Variables, Loggia, Munich, Germany
Што там за шэпты? / What Whispers are These?, Galeria Krynki, Poland
Once Information Has Passed Into Protein, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
2018
Equilibrium in Meteors, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
In myriads things cry out, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
2016
Ultra High Turba Turbo III, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Turbulence Soon Appears, Trapez Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2015
Loop de Loop, Bikini, Lyon, France
The Smallest Uninteresting Number, Centre For Creative Activities, Ustka, Poland
Sorry for all the ups and downs, SYNTAX, Lisbon, Portugal
Reverse Logistics, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Fungal Follies, mushroom puppet show-performance, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, The Netherlands
By the apparent impossibility of arranging signs, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
The Means, the Milieu, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, The Netherlands
Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The Strange Attractors, Polnisches Institut Berlin, Germany
2013
Clinamen, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
2011
The Creature, ARTISTERIUM – International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Event, Tbilisi, Georgia
Frame, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Oneness, Platan Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
2010
Moult, Galeria Stereo, Poznań Connection, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
2009
Nugget, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2008
Breadwinner, Galeria Starter, Poznań Browar; Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Brawn, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2007
Hand Made, Galeria Pies, Poznań, Poland
Selected group exhibitions:
2025
Hidden parameters, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław, Poland
Planetary Peasants, Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany
THE LUMBERJACK: Stories of Masculinity, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznań, Poland
Disconnection, Złącze Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Planetarische Bauern (Planetary Peasants), Art Museum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Germany
The Oldenburg Gleaners Society Club, The House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany
Disobedient Stars, BWA Wrocław, Poland
The Neurobiology of Love, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
Reverses. Meetings at work, Podgląd Gallery, ING Polish Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2024
Illusions of Omnipotence: Architecture and Daily Life under German Occupation, ZAMEK Culture Center, Poznań, Poland
DE/CODING TEXTILE. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Hallen 05 – Kunstfestival, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Dance, Dance, Revolution, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
Tears of Joy, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Adjacency, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland
Butterfly Resistance: Haiti, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Refuge, Sapieha Palace, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023
Contemporary Myths and Artifacts, Coulisse Gallery, Torsgatan 22, Stockholm, Sweden
40th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland
Fiddlesticks, Arsenał Gallery Power Station, Białystok, Poland
Don’t Dream Dreams. A Selection from the Art Collection Telekom and Two Commissioned Works, Moderna galerija, MG+ Ljubljana, Slovenia
Wonderful Line. A sentimental Flight, UFO Art Gallery, Kraków, Poland
Baltic Horizons – The final exhibition of the 1st edition of the Baltic Horizons competition, PGS Sopot, Poland
In the Beginning was the Deed!, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kaunas, Lithuania
New Spirituality, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia
A-Kumulacje 2023, Kaliskie Biennale Sztuki, Kalisz, Poland
2022
Kinds of Love, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Wróblewski and after…Art of Direct Realism, National Museum in Lublin, Poland
The Gallery is a Chicken Coop Artists are Hens and Art is a Chicken Eggs, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
The Curse of Minerva, Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France
The World Does Not Believe in Tears: Longing and Trauma in the Art of Białystok and Podlasie, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2021
Sculpture in Search of a Place, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
In the Beginning was the Deed!, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2020
Cherries, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Bayerische Kunstförderpreise 2019 – Bildende Kunst, Galerie der Künstler of the BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria (with Cana Bilir-Meier, Jonas Tröger, Sebastian Tröger and Akexi Tsioris), Germany
Keeping the Balance – Works from Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Eine Schwalbe Macht noch keinen Sommer, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
2019
What Are We Made Of?, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Be Fragile! Be Brave!, Pori Art Museum, Finland
2018
With the air too heavy to breathe, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Naturomorphic, City Garden Jazdów, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Waiting for Another Coming, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Amplifying Nature, Polish Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
Beyond the river: Female artists in dialogue with the Muskauer Park at Albertinum, SKD Museum, Dresden, Germany
I am the Mouth. Works from Central and Eastern European Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2017
Half-Truth. Works by Central and Eastern European Contemporary Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
Opening, Iza Tarasewicz, Laura Hinrichsmeyer, Jonathan Penca, Yutie Lee, Loggia Gallery, Munich, Germany
Olga Balema, Marlie Mul and Iza Tarasewicz, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
It is as you think it is, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland; The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
Mushrooms on the Ruins, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain
Anu Poder. Be fragile! Be brave!, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Solstices, BWA Katowice, Poland
2016
32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia
Common Affairs. Revisiting the Views Award – Contemporary Art from Poland, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
A Thousand Horsepower, Can Trinxet Factory, Barcelona, Spain
La Memoria Finalmente. Arte in Polonia: 1989-2016, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
Contemporary Art from Poland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Unfolding Constellations, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland
Five Pieces on a Background, Izolyatsia Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kiev, Ukraine
2015
Zbigniew Libera: It’s Not My Fault That This Sculpture Rubbed Against Me, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
kurz / dust / غبار, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Gardens, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Common Sets, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Procedures for the head. Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
Forecast, International Platform for Pioneering Ideas, first edition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2014
On Generation and Corruption, BWA Katowice, Poland
As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
People are Strange, BWA Olsztyn, Poland
2013
Epidemic, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland
Point without I, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Tools for Catching One’s Balance (with Janek Simon), Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
Ask for something that doesn’t exist (with Ana Roldan), Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2012
Longing, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Scontrum. Evolutions, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
Es ist Zeit für Turnschuhe! / It’s time for sneakers!, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
The Museum Problem, Frutta Gallery, Rome
Will Be Fine, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, Poland
2011
It’s OK with fingers, Galerie J, Geneva, Switzerland
At Ease, It Just Crashes, Galeria Spokojna, Warsaw, Poland
Revolving Dysfunction, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia
Fest I Nova, Art-Villa Garikula, Khaspi, Georgia
Open City, Festival of Art in Public Spaces, Lublin, Poland
MIR, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Everything, Galeria Kolonie, Warsaw, Poland
Transylvania 2, Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2010
Transylvania 1, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
Is Your Mind Full Of Good, Dom Pracy Twórczej Wigry, Poland
2009
Elms threads bushes (with Magda Starska), Galeria Stereo, Poznań, Poland
Difference Beyond Difference, Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland
2008
Establishment (and its Discontents), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Bodies Adream, Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2007
Here a Change Occurs, Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland
Prizes:
Bayerische Kunstförderpreise / Bildende Kunst 2019, Munich, Germany
Views 2015 – Deutsche Bank Award, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Publications:
Iza Tarasewicz. Clinamen, Post Brothers, National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, 2013
Iza Tarasewicz. Turba Turbo, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2016
Iza Tarasewicz: Disturbances and Multiplicities, PGS Sopot, Poland, 2020
Zuza Golińska, Iza Tarasewicz: ONE / THEM, Stanisław Małecki, Natalia Sielewicz, Stach Szabłowski, Polish Sculpture Centre, Orońsko, Poland, 2023
Iza Tarasewicz, It is stable? Yes. It is unstable? Yes, again. Unstable? Yes, again., Common Arts Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, 2024
Selected collections:
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; National Museum in Warsaw; Arsenał Gallery, Białystok; Zachęta Podlaska, Białystok; Art Collection Telekom, Bonn; Kaviar Fabrik, Lofoten; The ING Polish Art Foundation; Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen
Sculpture Magazine: Iza Tarasewicz's solo show The Rumble of a Tireless Land – by Beth Williamson, 2023
The Scotsman: Art Reviews: Iza Tarasewicz | Hayley Tompkins | Mark Cousins – by Susan Mansfield, 2022
Artforum: Alice Creischer's and Iza Tarasewicz's Battling with Malevolent Forces – by Frida Sandström, 2021
Dwutygodnik: Sculptresses. A conversation with Zuza Golińska and Iza Tarasewicz – by Natalia Sielewicz, 2024
ArtReview: Future Greats, Iza Tarasewicz – by Oliver Basciano, 2017
ArtViewer: Iza Tarasewicz, Full Circle Ahead!, 2021
The New York Times: No One Told the Cows Not to Lick the Artworks – by Thomas Rogers, 2024
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. 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.
Jędrzej Bieńko, Two people and a flower, 2025, verso signed, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 80 cm, 35 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Meadow
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
triptych
overall dimensions:
170 x 210 cm
66 7/8 x 82 5/8 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Portrait
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
100 x 120 cm
39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Flower 1
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
diptych
overall dimensions:
40 x 30 cm
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Flower 2
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
40.5 x 50 cm
16 x 19 3/4 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Flower 3
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
40 x 80.5 cm
15 3/4 x 31 3/4 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Horizon
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
diptych
overall dimensions:
240 x 355 cm
94.5 x 139.8 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Blue flowers in the eyes
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm
66 7/8 x 66 7/8 in
Jędrzej Bieńko
Meadow 2
2025
verso signed
acrylic on canvas
200 x 170 cm
78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in
Solo exhibitions:
2025
Horizon, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2024
Two-Headed Human, WHOISPOLA, Warsaw, Poland
2023
Human Decomposition, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
2022
Seflerka, Karrot, Warsaw, Poland
Selected group exhibitions:
2025
Let Me Tell You About Halfdreams, National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland
Points of Reference. Independent Student-Artistic Initiatives at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland
Wojciech Fibak Collection. New Generation, Mazovian Center of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom, Poland
Skinned and Spinned, Constellations, WHOISPOLA, Warsaw, Poland
Stress Hygiene, Przeciąg Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2024
Hi Stranger, WHOISPOLA, Warsaw, Poland
Agua(s), mor charpentier, Bogota, Columbia
The Navel of the Dream, City Gallery in Wrocław, Poland
The Sharp Smell of Flowers, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
2023
Pompei Lovers, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
Zabezpiecz rzeczy, które może porwać wiatr, Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland
CRASH CLUB, Pawilon Bliska, Warsaw, Poland
Refugees Welcome, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Tip of my tongue, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
Znów, Nanazenit, Warsaw, Poland
Fidelio, Schaffgotsch Palace, Wrocław, Poland
2022
Of blood and milk, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland