Whoispola, Londyńska 13, Warsaw (2025)

17/02/2025

NO FEARS

group show
Until March 2

Hallera 6

Julia Woronowicz

Weeds Pulling, 2024
oil on linen canvas
50 × 40 cm

Egyptian Figurines, 2024
oil on linen canvas
120 × 120 cm

Marianna Rodziewicz

Wide-Open Stingers, 2025
3D printing, acrylic

Femina Dominatio Reclusa, 2025
3D printing, acrylic

15/02/2025

NO FEARS

group show

until March 2
Hallera 6

Irmina Rusicka / Kasper Lecnim

Ribs Up Is Learning To Fly
2021-2022
bone black, polyurethane, cotton, steel
215 × 250 × 120 cm

Adam Kozicki

Have a Name, Consciousness, Feelings, Desires, Become
Food
2025
acrylic ink from airbrush on canvas,
130 × 170 cm

State 440b-c, 441e-442d
2024
acrylic ink from airbrush on canvas,
100 × 150 cm
rusicka .lecnim

12/02/2025

NO FEARS
wtorek-niedziela
13.00-18.00
Hallera 6

11/02/2025

No Fears
group exhibition

Hallera 6

Kasper Lecnim

The Day After Tomorrow
It Will All Be Over (series)
2024
tailor pins,polyurethane, PVB, cotton, cardboard, gypsum, styrofoam, rubble construction, steel
300 × 60 × 80 cm

The Day After Tomorrow
It Will All Be Over (series)
2024
tailor pins, polyurethane, bandage cohesive, cotton, cardboard, gypsum, styrofoam, rubble construction, steel
105 × 100 × 70 cm

The Day After Tomorrow
It Will All Be Over (series)
2023-2024
polyurethane, PVB, cotton, polyester, debris construction, steel
160 × 200 × 70 cm

Julia Woronowicz

Aquatrice From Praga - Północ, 2025
oil on linen canvas
200 × 130 cm
lecnim

22/01/2025

NO FEARS

OPENING | JAN 31 | 6 PM
Hallera 6

Adam Kozicki
Kasper Lecnim
Marianna Rodziewicz
Irmina Rusicka
Julia Woronowicz

Text by: Aleksy Wójtowicz

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

.lecnim .rusicka

20/01/2025

We are happy to announce that Jan Baszak joined the group of artists represented by WHOISPOLA Gallery.

Jan Baszak, born in Szczecin in 1994, is an artist based between Berlin and Szczecin. His sculptures sit between intimacy and melancholia, often using everyday material, particularly black used socks. Growing up in Western Poland, Jan experienced a sense of not fitting into the privileged world surrounding him. This experience led him to form alternative connections with non-human beings. His sculptures act as lenses reflecting the interplay of self-discovery and self-destruction. Inspired by urban environments and memories, his figurative sculptures create an intricate dance between past and future, human and animal, self and other, posing the question of whether it’s a dance of existence or a dance macabre.

1. Photo by
2. Jan Baszak, „Swan”, 2024
Wood, upholstery foam, black socks,
42 x 128 x 246 cm

16/01/2025

NO FEARS
group show

Opening: Jan 31
Hallera 6

More information coming soon

Irmina Rusicka
Who Wants to Step Out of Friendly Gloom, 2024
pigment print, museum paper, 111 x 172.7 cm

📷 Kasper Lecnim
rusicka .lecnim

03/01/2025

https://www.vogue.pl/a/wystawa-hi-stranger-w-galerii-whoispola-na-warszawskiej-pradze

31/12/2024

Happy 2025 to everyone!
The Hi Stranger exhibition at Hallera 6 and Karolina Szwed’s exhibition at Londyńska 13 will be on view from Thursday, January 2. Both exhibitions will run until January 18.
See you there!

31/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Karolina Szwed

Gilbert And George Eat At The Same Place Every Night, 2024
oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm

Exercices For The Back, 2024
oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm

Lamb, 2024
oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm
arolinaszwed

„Karolina Szwed invites viewers to participate in a series of symbolic „homemade exercises”: a face pressed to a mirror transforms into a lamb; a back splits open; someone holds breath in a shower stall. Szwed draws from her own biography, but her works do not directly recreate it. Instead, she focuses on intimate, embarrassing moments, like the narcissistic kisses of the mirror, devoid of power to animate the reflection. The bow of the key, through which curious wax is poured to learn the name and the future. Pale paintings on the back, like on old cave walls. Secrets.
Szwed makes a sincere use of symbols from everyday mythology, she engages signs that are close by, shaping the reality around us, like mold, back pain, or household objects. Only by breaking through this layer of familiarity do we reach what the images truly convey: the paralyzing moments of fear, shame, and love.”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

29/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Planeta

Crystal Heart, 2021
metal wire, pearls, silicates, textiles
planeta

„Planeta conjures ancient Slavic beliefs and rituals, its ephemeral scenery, installations and costumes immersing us in a dreamlike atmosphere of encounters in nighttime palace gardens or images of shooting stars. Suddenly, we feel heavy and sluggish, as if bound by collective hypnosis, our gazes moving over the wires of the huge chandelier. It is a ghost released by Planeta into the gallery – a skeleton hovering above the ground. A lamp devoid of its own light, shining only with reflections. A crystal heart.”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

27/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Sebastian Winkler

Hi Stranger, 2024
Inkjet printing, glue, foam, metal,
170 x 60 x 80 cm

Decomposition, 2024
Inkjet printing, pigment transfer, acrylic on canvas,
280 x 170 cm

Ramses II, 2024
Inkjet printing, pigment transfer, acrylic on canvas,
140 x 100 cm

„The works of Sebastian Winkler are obsessed for images. The photographic patchwork evokes the artist’s own body, yet fragments it through incongruous elements and surprising juxtapositions. It looks for other provisional identities. It unfolds among the flowers, reminiscent of a Pre-Raphaelite Ophelia. It flexes, looks out from inside its throat, and extends its tongue. It becomes part of the landscape, like Narcissus and Daphne before it. It never drowns. Set against a royal red background, Ramses II (2024) embodies a blend of eroticism and vulnerability, being alive and dead, the Sun and the Moon. Water pools in his crotch, seen by contemporaries merely as a vessel, a fossilized remnant. Hands placed on his chest evoke a trap (cage, cross, or prison), yet may also suggest a gesture of peace. In the work directly referencing Kirsten Lepore’s video, the greeting “Hi Stranger” is spoken in a much more assertive voice. Winkler focuses on the erotic pose of the character, seducing with their heavy gaze and flirting with their tongue playfully poking out.”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

26/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Paulina Pawłowska

Living In A Fantasy World, 2024
pigment print on cotton paper, 50 x 40 cm

„Paulina Pawłowska turns her lens to familiar settings. A bedroom bathed in daylight reveals a bed and two entangled figures in an intimate moment. A bright day. Yet, the work’s title suggests that the scene only exists in a fantasy world. The intertwined body parts—posed like snakes—transform into a chimera, a monster. Vulnerable legs raised in ecstasy. One hand appears commanding, decisive; the other rests inert on a pillow like a theatrical prop.
Pawłowska’s work consistently works with the gaze—she performatively explores it, turns it into choreography, and recreates it. In her new series Living in a Fantasy World (2024) she explores the illusions that images can create. What is intimacy produced before the camera lens and before the audience? Getting closer? Being together?„

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

19/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Martyna Miller

Gosia, Magda and Karolina, 2024
Video, 10’34’’

„Gosia, Magda, and Karolina (2024) are the protagonists of Martyna Miller’s works. The artist knows them, calls them their name, but she only lets us guess who they really are. The author invites the actresses to choreographed, improvised sessions where they recreate their past sexual experiences. Once scores for two, these moments now resurface in the artist’s works as solo performances. The recordings of body movement, slowed down and dissected into multiple parts, reveal the protagonists’ faces and their penetrating gazes that catch us peeping. Faces spill out like ink, resembling early experiments with the cinematograph, at times evoking other more-than-human characters: roots, coral reefs, mycelium.”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

18/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Jędrzej Bieńko

Two Pupils, 2024
acrylic on row linen canvas, 70 x 80 x 4,5 cm

Bez tytułu, 2024
acrylic on row linen canvas, 170 x 150 x 4,5 cm

Untitled, 2024
acrylic on row linen canvas,170 x 150 x 4,5 cm

„Figures painted by Jędrzej Bieńko also gaze at us from the canvas. Some of them, unintentionally, resemble the artist himself (a glimpse of muscle memory, a work of hand trained in the past, impulsively seeking the creator’s image). The eyes are nearly invisible, almost non-existent, piercing through the hands as if to remind us of their presence. Or, on the contrary: or they are omnipresent, filling everything, doubled in space. In Bieńko’s works sight and gaze are pushed to extreme, yet they never cease to work. What do they want to see? Who do they want to look at?”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

17/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Kornel Leśniak

“It’s Gotten Hard To Talk To You”, 2024
oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm

“You Should’ve Told Me”, 2024
oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm

“It Hurts A Little”, 2024
oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm

“I Can’t Keep You Forever”, 2024
oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

Kornel Leśniak

„Sad jewelry faces stare out from Kornel Leśniak’s paintings. They search for a pair of eyes that will acknowledge their pain. The artist gives his works titles that defy reality, bringing accusation or a at least moment of uncomfortable honesty. The artist finds pleasure in exploring his own traumas and vulnerabilities. Sharing them with the audience brings him a sense of solace. In Leśniak’s works, jewelry, family heirlooms, and sentimental treasures transform into handcuffs—small instruments of enslavement and torture. Their weight inflicts minor injuries on the body: an allergy, a bruise, a rash. The serene blue colors hide illness, but the body learns to live with it. A foreign body, both familiar and stranger alike, inhabits us like a grain of sand in a shell. Forever ours.”

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition „Hi Stranger”

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

Dzielnica Praga Północ

15/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Jan Baszak

“Horse”, 2022
wood, PCV, black socks
184 x 160 x 70 cm

“Hare”, 2024
wood, PCV, black socks
85 x 38 x 36 cm

“Swan”, 2024
wood, PCV, black socks
42 x 128 x 246 cm

“Two Swans On A Lake”, 2024
wood, black socks
280 x 160 cm

"Jan Baszak's shadow sculptures evoke a yearning for an image that does not exist. The artist captures the fragmented essence of the world, mirroring it through the assemblage of discarded objects like old socks and scattered pieces of leather. A horse tilts its head in serene stillness, caught in a moment of anticipation. It is clearly searching for something, longing for something missing. An oversized hare has been caught in mid-transformation: its paws morphing into hands, into full arms, and finally into the contours of a human back. Swans, the artist’s favorite birds, give a glimpse into his romantic nature. One swan caught in flight, its neck half-extended, recalls the broken fragility of Ophelia, suspended in a space between melancholy and hope. Two more swans, depicted on a nocturnal tapestry, lean toward each other in a shared, intimate bath, their forms blurred in the dark, gazing back from the enveloping darkness. In another textile work, inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s "Tree of Crows", only barren branches are left. Here, the images of animals are formed from the material used for creating the work - leather. Does it represent an illusion-free longing for harmony?"

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition "Hi Stranger"

📷Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

13/12/2024

Hi Stranger
group exhibition

Plac Hallera 6

Wiktoria Walendzik
“Woman Lounging On The Hearth Like A Cat”, 2024
Reinforcement rod
230 x 225 x 4 cm

Sebastian Winkler
“Hi Stranger”, 2024
Inkjet print, glue, metal
170 x 60 x 80 cm

"Wiktoria Walendzik's sculpture [...] denies the warm glow of home. Fashioned from rebar, it becomes a stage for an intimate yet disconcerting and somehow slow performance. In "Dziewczyna wyleguje się nad kominkiem jak kot" [The Girl Lounges Over The Fireplace Like A Cat] (2024), the girl stretches her body, bends her leg and extends a hand, all the while feigning indifference, though fully aware of our gaze. Elsewhere, "Miki" [Mickey] (2019) struggles to rise after a fall as we watch him. Caught in a dynamic moment of transition, he hovers between states. He struggles, but he’s about to draw himself up. No longer defeated but not yet triumphant. Next work also depicts a battle, this time with an "Evil Spirit" (2019), a nightmare, against oneself. Crushed and immobilized by sleep paralysis, the character is unable to move. The House of Night is an unsafe space. In her works, Wiktoria Walendzik delves into horizontal poses, investigating the ambivalent meanings of laying bodies, using them to create bathtubs, chaise longues, and beds. The figures evoke more than just fatigue, frailty; they embody regeneration, majesty, and even triumph."

Excerpt from the text by Michał Grzegorzek accompanying the exhibition "Hi Stranger"

📷 Bartosz Górka

Project supported by the Praga-Północ District Office of the City of Warsaw

Dzielnica Praga Północ

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