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NEW SHOW / Daniel Kalinski „Void of Matter” / opening reception: 24.10.26 7PM at BD

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"𝘒𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.” -
Przemysław Blejzyk @sainer__

Kolorganism250426 [for Warsaw] 13-color hand-pulled screenprint on Munken Kristall 100 × 70 cm, 2026 Edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist

⏱️October 4 2026 (Sunday) at 8:00 p.m. (CET)
📍Link in BIO

"My latest screen print, which best embodies the formal principles that are most important to me. It was also a real challenge for me in terms of both design and production. I showed it for the first time in May at a solo exhibition at BD Gallery (Warsaw, Poland)". -Sainer

Przemysław Blejzyk (Sainer), born 1988 in Łódź, lives and works in Gdynia. A multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of painting, digital and generative art, and public art practice. His current work centres on formal concerns and strategies of vision, through which he explores the relationship between the analogue and digital worlds, seeking to construct a new language for painting.

He has exhibited solo at the National Museum in Gdańsk, the Künstlerhaus in Vienna and the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Rouen, and in group shows at the Petit Palais in Paris, Grand Palais Immersif, the Kordegardia – Gallery of the National Centre for Culture, and the Hive Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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BD @bd_gallery_ x CRASH CLUB @crashclubprojects

AXEL VOID
UNTITLED

acrylic on canvas
150x120 (x2)
2024

Axel Void (Alejandro Dorda Mevs) @axelvoid
Teacher, curator, and multidisciplinary artist, born in Miami in 1986 to a Haitian mother and a Spanish father. Raised in Andalusia, currently based in New York.

Void addresses memory through personal and cultural archives. His painting draws on photographs and on the histories of minorities who rarely find a place in dominant narratives. Identity appears here as a continually negotiated process, shaped by migration, family, and inherited memory. Painting becomes a tool for reworking this material — not to preserve it, but to test its mutability and fragility.

“In my practice, I seek to create moments, situations, interventions, and objects that either procure an experience or become the experience through different media — such as photography, film, audio, music, editorial work, archival material, drawing, sculpture, or painting. From subjective journalism and storytelling to other narrative abstractions, I explore subjects like human behavior, societal structuring in individual/collective concerns, and the absurdity of existence from a playful and thought-provoking affect.”

Glossy imitation ceramic over the hydraulic cement tiles.

When you were kids, you squatted - before understanding this term–what used to be a cultural center called “The Barrel”. At first, you would paint the walls and hang out, but you ended up clearing all the rubble with shovels you stole from a construc- tion site, cleaning up the place, changing the lock, and nicely kicking out the junkies. Sometimes, they would come in to smoke base in a side room; you were OK with this as long as they didn’t clean their fingers on the walls. There wasn’t a corner that didn’t have a piece up. Some kids came in to suck dick for money for what would add up to a bag of candy at the Barraca: a store filled with candy and party plastic toys. You stole electricity from a light post, the same one we used to connect a TV antenna to catch music channels from other countries; you mostly came up with weird infomercials. Really, it was Ramon doing this. Ramo taken in Warsaw, Poland by @bd_gallery_

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[CRASH CLUB WARSAW 2026: BD GALLERY]

Very happy to have BD Gallery @bd_gallery_ joining us for this year’s Crash Club Warsaw.

16–20 September 2026
Bracka 5A, 00-501 Warsaw

#CrashClub #WarsawArtWeek by @bd_gallery_

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ʙᴅ ɢᴀʟʟᴇʀʏ is pleased to invite you to Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. In Room 115, you can see works by two artists: Jan Dudek @_janekdudek  EGS @oldhelsinki  

Today we want to introduce you to EGS (b. 1974), based in Helsinki, who works across sculpture, painting, and installation, developing a practice shaped by repetition, cartography, and language. Familiar forms are abstracted in his work until they edge closer to sign than image.

His exhibitions include Kunsthalle Helsinki and ARCO Madrid, while pieces from his practice can be found in major public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Finnish National Gallery) and the Helsinki Art Museum HAM. Glass, in particular, has come to occupy a central place in his work - so much so that by 2020, his output in the medium was substantial enough to merit an early retrospective at the Finnish Glass Museum, featuring pieces blown in both Finland and Lithuania.

A single motif threads through his work across all media: three repeated letters, E, G, S, worked and reworked until language gives way to pure form. Underlying it all is one insistent message - that history stays with us, but remains ours to shape.

  Hotel Warszawa Art Fair Powstańców Warszawy Sq. 9 Warsaw 
HWAF 2026, room 115 
Open to the public: Sat, Sep 5 & Sun, Sep 6 12 — 7 pm taken in Hotel Warszawa Art Fair by @bd_gallery_

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ʙᴅ ɢᴀʟʟᴇʀʏ is pleased to invite you to Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. In Room 115, you can see works by two artists:
 Jan Dudek @_janekdudek  EGS @oldhelsinki  

Today we want to introduce you to Jan Dudek (born 2001, Lublin), who lives and works in Warsaw, where he studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. His oil paintings focus on everyday situations and personal experiences, exploring the relationship between memory and present emotional states. He applies paint onto lightly primed canvases, preserving the natural texture of the linen — a distinctive quality that runs through his work. This approach carries the nostalgia that remains his central point of reference. He made his gallery debut at BD Gallery in 2026.
  Hotel Warszawa Art Fair Powstańców Warszawy Sq. 9 Warsaw 
HWAF 2026, room 115 
Open to the public: Sat, Sep 5 & Sun, Sep 6 12 — 7 pm taken in Hotel Warszawa by @bd_gallery_

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Martha Cooper (ur. 1943, Baltimore) – jedna z kluczowych postaci powojennej fotografii dokumentalnej w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

Absolwentka historii sztuki w Grinnell College oraz etnologii na University of Oxford. Pracowała jako kuratorka w dziale antropologii Uniwersytetu Yale, służyła w Korpusie Pokoju w Tajlandii i była fotografką National Geographic. W 1977 roku została pierwszą kobietą na etacie fotoreporterki w historii „New York Post”.

Od ponad pięciu dekad dokumentuje praktyki twórcze poza głównym obiegiem instytucjonalnym: od tradycyjnego tatuażu irezumi w środowisku yakuzy („Tokyo Tattoo 1970”), przez kultury czasu wolnego na Lower East Side („Street Play”, 1977–1980), narodziny sztuki ulicznej i hip-hopu w Nowym Jorku („Subway Art”, 1984; „Hip Hop Files”, 2004), po antropologiczne studium kobiecości w fotografii reklamowej („Kodak Girl”, 2011).

Archiwum Cooper zostało włączone do zbiorów Library of Congress w Waszyngtonie. Jej fotografie znajdują się w kolekcjach Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Contemporary Art w Los Angeles, Pera Museum w Stambule oraz Urban Nation Museum w Berlinie, gdzie funkcjonuje stała „Martha Cooper Library”. W 2015 roku jej prace pokazano na wystawie „Bridges of Graffiti” podczas 56. Międzynarodowej Wystawy Sztuki w Wenecji.

W latach 2021–2022 Urban Nation Museum zaprezentowało „Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures”, pierwszą pełną retrospektywę obejmującą ponad pięć dekad jej pracy.

Bohaterka „Everybody Street” (2013) Cheryl Dunn, dokumentu o nowojorskiej fotografii ulicznej, w którym Cooper występuje obok Bruce’a Davidsona, Mary Ellen Mark, Elliotta Erwitta, Joela Meyerowitza i Jamela Shabazza. Bohaterka pełnometrażowego filmu „Martha: A Picture Story” (reż. Selina Miles, 2019), pokazanego na Tribeca Film Festival w Nowym Jorku. Autorka kilkunastu książek fotograficznych. Mieszka i pracuje w Nowym Jorku.

📸 Cezary Hunkiewicz @cezary_hunkiewicz, NYC, 2017 taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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[ENGLISH VERSION IN THE COMMENTS]

Martha Cooper | Unsanctioned

Otwarcie wystawy z udziałem artystki:
20.06.2026
Sobota, 19:00

BD Gallery
Puławska 31, Warsaw
Wstęp wolny

Martha Cooper to jedna z kluczowych postaci powojennej fotografii dokumentalnej w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Od ponad pięćdziesięciu lat dokumentuje praktyki twórcze społeczności działających poza ramami instytucji. Zanim wiele z nich zyskało publiczne uznanie, była tam ze swoim aparatem – rejestrując ich pracę, codzienne życie i światy, które przekształcały.

Wystawa „Unsanctioned” prezentuje długoletnie zainteresowanie Cooper środowiskami, które wytwarzają własny język wizualny i praktyki kulturowe. Jej fotografie to nie tylko dokumentacja sztuki, ale przede wszystkim ludzi, którzy ją tworzą, a których działalność wykracza poza oficjalny obieg. Akt fotografowania jest u niej zawsze podwójny: zapisuje i jednocześnie współwytwarza kulturowe rozpoznanie tego, co rejestruje.

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Przez całą karierę Cooper pozostawała wierna swojej metodzie. Niezależnie od tematu – japońskiej tradycji tatuażu, dziecięcych zabaw, twórców graffiti czy społeczności miejskich na różnych kontynentach – cechowały ją wytrwałość i bliska obecność wśród ludzi, których fotografowała.

„Unsanctioned” ukazuje drogę od pomijanych praktyk do rozpoznanych ruchów kulturowych. Jest zapisem dorobku, który pomógł utrwalić jedne z najbardziej wpływowych form kultury wizualnej naszych czasów.

Kuratorzy wystawy: Cezary Hunkiewicz, Nika Kramer
Projekt ekspozycji: Konrad Zamiar, realizacja: Jakub Antosz
Identyfikacja wizualna: Konrad Smolarski
Projekt współfinansuje miasto stołeczne Warszawa

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Chłopiec piszący OWL na środku ulicy, Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1978 @marthacoopergram

Obsada filmu „Wild Style” przed muralem: z przodu Doze, Frosty Freeze i Ken Swift, w środkowym rzędzie Patty Astor, Fab 5 Freddy i Lady Pink, w tylnym rzędzie Lil Crazy Legs, Revolt i Sharp. Autorami muralu są Revolt i Sharp. Riverside Park, 1983 @marthacoopergram taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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[English version in comments]

„Martha Cooper. Unsanctioned” - legenda fotografii dokumentalnej po raz pierwszy w Warszawie.

Jej archiwum włączono do zbiorów Library of Congress w Waszyngtonie. Retrospektywę pokazywał Berlin, a fotografie wystawiano w Stambule, Los Angeles, Nowym Jorku i na Biennale w Wenecji. W Warszawie Martha Cooper pokaże swoje prace po raz pierwszy.

To ona w 1970 roku, jako pierwsza fotografka z Zachodu, weszła do tokijskiego studia mistrza irezumi działającego w świecie yakuzy. Jako pierwsza etatowa fotoreporterka w historii „New York Post” po godzinach fotografowała dzieci budujące własne światy w ruinach Lower East Side. Jej książka „Subway Art” – nazwana przez „The New York Times” biblią ruchu graffiti – wychowała pokolenia twórców sztuki niezależnej na całym świecie, także w Polsce.

20 czerwca o 19:00 Martha Cooper osobiście otworzy wystawę „Unsanctioned” w BD Gallery. Trzy dni później, 23 czerwca o 18:00, spotka się z publicznością podczas rozmowy „Antropologia spojrzenia” w Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie @wydawnictwo_msn @msnwarszawa

Japanese tattoo master Horibun I tattooing Mrs. Yamazaki, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
photo by @marthacoopergram taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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These are the last few days to see the solo exhibition by legendary American documentary photographer Martha Cooper @marthacoopergram

To mark the occasion, we invite you to a curator-led tour on Sunday, August 23, at 1:00 p.m., led by Cezary Hunkiewicz. The event will be an opportunity to learn more about the concept behind the exhibition and the stories behind selected photographs. It will also be the last event before the exhibition closes.

Additionally, a limited, signed edition of one of the artist’s classic photographs will premiere on Sunday. It will also be available online. More information coming soon.

Photos by Blazej Pindor @blazejpindor

Curators: @cezary_hunkiewicz @nikakramer
Exhibition design: Konrad Zamiar @zamiar.space
Production: Jakub Antosz @jakubantosz
Visual identity: @autographstudio
Cooperation: @przyklejone.pl @nkowalczyk__ @zulukuki@zuza_stolarek @reneapostroph @escritor.media @mateusz_zimnoch
The project is co-funded by the Capital City of Warsaw

The exhibition “Unsanctioned” traces Cooper’s long-standing interest in communities that generate their own visual language and cultural practices. Her photographs document not so much art as, above all, the people who make it – people whose activity falls outside the official circuit. With Cooper, the act of photographing is always twofold: it records and, at the same time, helps produce the cultural recognition of what it records. taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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🟢 Nowym rodzajem tagów na murach jest internet. Tagujesz na ścianie Instagrama. I podobnie jak na ulicy, tak samo w sieci rządzi demokratyzacja. Sztuka dla każdego. Każdy może poczuć się artystą – mówi Martha Cooper (@marthacoopergram), jedna z najważniejszych fotografek naszych czasów, znana z dokumentowania narodzin nowojorskiego graffiti i kultury hip-hopowej. W BD (@bd_gallery_), warszawskiej galerii sztuki współczesnej, można oglądać jej wystawę „Unsanctioned”.

🟢 W „Mint” publikujemy rozmowę Mateusza Demskiego (@mattdemski) z fotografką.

🔸 Link w bio i stories (24h).

Zdjęcia: Błażej Pindor (@blazejpindor), Mateusz Zimnoch (@mateusz_zimnoch)

#marhacooper #unsanctioned #bdgallery #graffiti by @bd_gallery_

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Opening of Martha Cooper’s @marthacoopergram exhibition „Unsanctioned” at BD Gallery, June 20, 2026. Photographed by @mateusz_zimnoch

The exhibition traces a path from overlooked practices to recognised cultural movements. It is a record of a body of work that has helped preserve some of the most influential forms of visual culture of our time.

The exhibition is open until August 22, Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–19:00.

Curators: @cezary_hunkiewicz @nikakramer
Exhibition design: Konrad Zamiar @zamiar.space
Production: Jakub Antosz @jakubantosz
Visual identity: @autographstudio
Cooperation: @przyklejone.pl @nkowalczyk__ @zulukuki @zuza_stolarek @reneapostroph @escritor.media
The project is co-funded by the Capital City of Warsaw taken in BD by @bd_gallery_

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