Between the Paintings. The Dormant Capital of Andrzej Skrzyński’s Collection
About the event
Between the Paintings. The Dormant Capital of Andrzej Skrzyński’s Collection
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Olaf Brzeski
- Wanda Czełkowska
- Oskar Dawicki
- Zbigniew Dłubak
- Jan Dobkowski
- Stanisław Dróżdż
- Teresa Gierzyńska
- Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga
- Ryszard Grzyb
- Władysław Hasior
- Koji Kamoji
- Kijewski/Kocur
- Bartłomiej Kokosiński
- Marek Konieczny
- Barbara Kozłowska
- Jarosław Kozłowski
- Ewa Kuryluk
- Anna Kutera
- Romuald Kutera
- Kwiek/Kulik
- Paweł Kwiek
- Jerzy Lewczyński
- Andrzej Lachowicz
- Natalia LL
- Zbigniew Libera
- Łódź Kaliska
- Irena Kalicka
- Jan Lebenstein
- Antoni Mikołajczyk
- Magdalena Moskwa
- Henryk Morel
- Teresa Murak
- Fortunata Obrąpalska
- Andrzej Partum
- Ewa Partum
- Andrzej Paruzel
- Włodzimierz Pawlak
- Marek Piasecki
- Maria Pinińska - Bereś
- Józef Robakowski
- Tadeusz Rolke
- Erna Rosenstein
- Zofia Rydet
- Zygmunt Rytka
- Adam Rzepecki
- Jadwiga Sawicka
- Jacek Sempoliński
- Janek Simon
- Mikołaj Smoczyński
- Zdzisław Sosnowski
- Henryk Stażewski
- Gabriele Stötzer
- Paweł Susid
- Bronisław Schlabs
- Alina Ślesińska
- Jerzy Truszkowski
- Jerzy Treliński
- Teresa Tyszkiewicz
- Ryszard Waśko
- Krzysztof Wodiczko
- Krzysztof Zarębski
- Jerzy Zieliński “Jury”
Polish description:
📅 Opening: January 31 (Saturday) at 6 PM
📆 Exhibition open from 31.01 to 21.03.2026
🎟️ Free entry
The phrase about “dormant capitals” is quoted by Walter Benjamin in his collection of quotes, who saw in collecting a passion that carries the potential to renew the old — “a coup aimed at what is typical and classifiable”, at traditions and authorities. He attributed a subversive potential to the collector’s passion, which escapes the templates of traditional art history.
Andrzej Skrzyński’s collection cannot be ordered according to divisions by media. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, objects, and films do not form separate threads of this assemblage. There is no privileged generation either — works by emerging artists sit next to pieces by classic figures. Neither chronological nor hierarchical, but only apparently chaotic, this is a collection of subjective choices, often impulsive.
This is the collection of an art enthusiast, a frequent visitor of exhibitions and studios of various artists, gathered outside mechanical accumulation. One can speak here of gestures of excitement, perhaps even of a perverse insatiability when the same name repeats in the inventory. Both irrational desire and pragmatic calculation are ways of making the world familiar and negotiating one’s presence within it. Everyday existence among art — like in Andrzej Skrzyński’s home, squeezing between paintings that occupy almost every corner — is part of this story.
Media patronage:
- Magazyn Szum
- Contemporary Lynx
- Notes na 6 tygodni
- waw4free
- Le Monde diplomatique
- Polskie Radio RDC
- portal NiezlaSztuka.net
- Radio z QLTURĄ
- afterwork.art
English description:
📅 Opening: January 31 (Saturday) at 6 PM
📆 Exhibition open from 31.01 to 21.03.2026
🎟️ Free entry
Walter Benjamin wrote of “latent capital” when reflecting on collecting as a passion capable of reactivating what is old — “a coup aimed at what is typical and classifiable”, at authority and tradition. In this sense, collecting becomes a practice with subversive potential that resists the linear narratives and hierarchies of conventional art history.
Andrzej Skrzyński’s collection defies organization by medium: paintings, photographs, sculptures, objects, and films form a single, intertwined field rather than separate categories. There is no privileged chronology; works by emerging artists coexist with those of established figures. The collection is shaped by subjective, often impulsive decisions — encounters, affinities, and moments of fascination — rather than mechanical accumulation.
The latent capital of this collection does not reside only in market value or speculative potential. It is symbolic capital accumulated through attention, risk, and long-term engagement, activated through display, encounter, and reinterpretation.
This selection inaugurates a new exhibition cycle devoted to the practice of collecting and opens a space for reflection on the culture-forming role of private collections and the shifting boundaries between private and public.
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