Boznańska in Warsaw

About the event

Tickets are already available here: https://app.evenea.pl/event/boznanskawaw10226/ "I do not paint what I see, but what I feel about what I see." Olga Boznańska This will be the third Olga Boznańska exhibition that I will guide. I soaked in her paintings at the Musée d'Orsay, walked around Montparnasse tracing places from her everyday life, and experienced the spirit of place in her Kraków studio. The Warsaw exhibition complements and enriches these experiences — it allows us to look at Boznańska from new angles and with the attention that this outstanding artist simply deserves. At the exhibition we will see several dozen works by Boznańska herself, above all her signature, misty portraits painted with her famous trembling stroke. For her, a portrait was not a record of appearance but a long process of looking, hesitation and gradual approach to another person. Among the presented works is an intriguing painting long regarded as a self‑portrait, now attributed to Aniela Pająkówna. Pająkówna graduated from the famous Académie Julian in Paris and would likely have had a bright future had she not met Stanisław Przybyszewski. We will also see a painting depicting Boznańska’s studio, for which the love of her life posed — a quiet, intimate record of the painter’s presence and emotions. An important context for the exhibition is also a sculpture by Teofilia Certowicz, whom Boznańska knew from Kraków’s “Baraneum” — the legendary, informal art school, the first place where women in conservative Kraków could obtain artistic education. Recently we are experiencing an exceptional concentration of Boznańska exhibitions; one reason was the official announcement of 2025 as the artist’s year. Let’s take advantage of this. Boznańska is the only Polish female painter who has not been silenced — neither by the “sole correct canons” of art history nor even by the Polish parliament. See you at the exhibition! Paweł