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NOW OPEN: Eyes Without a Face by Aleksandra Sidor at IMPORT EXPORT, Warsaw ”(…) Critics have described Stanisław Lem’s work as a form of cognitive futurology - a way of thinking into the future by simulating its mental weather. His futures were soft, strange, internal. Long before virtual reality or AI intimacy, Lem foresaw the psychological consequences of machine logic: fractured perception, artificial affect, and the erosion of self-recognition. In Solaris, the alien doesn’t attack. It remembers you. In The Futurological Congress, reality isn’t destroyed - it dissolves. These are not threats to the body, but to the mind’s ability to locate itself.    It is in this space - of seeing without certainty, of searching without a face - that these paintings unfold. The exhibition’s title, Eyes Without a Face, echoes both a cult film and a spectral pop elegy, each marked by disembodied vision and unstable identity (…)” ✍️ @aleksandrasidore for @importexport.art Aleksandra Sidor Eyes Without a Face Solo exhibition On view until 31 January 2026 IMPORT EXPORT Aleja Szucha 16/7 00-582 Warsaw Tue–Fri: 3–6 PM Sat: 12–6 PM or by appointment 💌 DM or e-mail for more info: [email protected] 📸 Installation views by Błażej Pindor #aleksandrasidor #importexportwarsaw

The Eye and the Ear (1945) by Franciszka & Stefan Themerson will now join the collection of GAM Torino — Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. @gamtorino The acquisition is possible thanks to Fondazione Arte CRT. @fondartecrt First screened in 1945, the black and white „The Eye and The Ear” explored the relationship between the optic and the sonic by translating poems by Julian Tuwim and music scores of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski into visually enthralling compositions. The solo presentation of the Franciszka Themerson’s work is part of Artissima’s section Back to the Future. Curated by Heike Munder and Jacopo Visconti Crivelli, the section focuses on the rediscovery of pioneers of contemporary art who explored diverse methods and possibilities of communication between the 1940s and 1990s. @heike.munder @jacopocv1 @artissimafair On view are Franciszka Themerson’s 1945 film „The Eye and the Ear” (made in collaboration with husband Stefan), bi-abstract paintings and a selection of drawings from „Traces of Living” series (1960s), which – as per Munder’s words – “anticipate the aesthetics of pictograms, technical diagrams, or digital interfaces, decades before such visual logics became widespread”.  📆 ARTISSIMA @artissimafair 31.10 - 2.11.2025 📍Oval Lingotto Fiere Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco 70 10126 Turin, IT 💌 DM or e-mail for details: [email protected] 📷 by Sebastiano Luciano #themersonestate #franciszkathemerson #stefanthemerson #artissima #importexport #importexportwarsaw

On view at Salon: Corporate Paintings by Aleksandra Sidor 🖼️ untitled (corporate paintings), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2026 📍Salon by IMPORT EXPORT 47 Bedford Street (middle buzzer) WC2E 9HA London Opening hours: Wed — Sat: 3 — 6 PM or by appointment 💌 DM or e-mail for more information and/or future appointments: [email protected]

Mia Dudek’s solo exhibition “Saturation” is now on view at CK Zamek in Poznan. “In the bathroom, a pregnant artist, a body within a body immersed in the bathtub; moisture drips, runs, and seeps. Here, Dudek comes forward with an aesthetics of leaking, evoking a state in which bodies, transcending their boundaries, disintegrate and proliferate simultaneously. The bathtub epitomizes water and amniotic fluid, soaking in and spilling. Here, the artist does not seek to highlight  a hydrofeministsolidarity of aqueous bodies but sees the spilling of water and bodies as a process in which cracks mark a rotting battleground of fighting for one’s own place and identity. Being pregnant means being a body within a body; life means crossing its boundary. (…) The intricate and spectacular mushrooms in Dudek’s photographs carry multiple meanings; they are a figure through which the issues the artist explores are revealed. In Dudek’s art, they become not only a metaphor for femininity but also illustrate transience and transformation. For example, the iridescent ones bring to mind the traditionally understood, class-sanctioned femininity embodied by a lady of the housein pearls—Victorian or nostalgically grandmotherly. Mushrooms, the guardians of the cycle of life and decay, can also be magical; their ability to transcend the boundaries of consciousness is encoded in numerous cultural texts and imagery. In Wonderland, Alice would eat a mushroom to shrink and grow, until one day she grew so large that she tore off the roof of the house, her body literally shattering the structure that confined her. In Dudek’s works, mushrooms also signify liminal states, moments of transition and transformation; they make up an imaginary realm of corporeal crossings-over. They serve the artist to capture the moment when structures are transcended and simultaneously undergo decay and creation (…)” Excerpt from the exhibition text by Malgorzata Misniakiewicz “Saturation” by Mia Dudek is on view until 31 May ul. św. Marcin 80/82 61-809 Poznań @mia.dudek @ckzamek @malgorzata.misniakiewicz

’Afterimages’: What Does it Mean to See Through Overload? by Sonja Teszler’s review in @friezeofficial is out now. Read the full article by @tulipankocso via link in bio 🔍 The exhibition featuring works by Alice Bucknell, Maia Naveriani and Echo Seireeni in collaboration with @bukiavakhania & @harlesdenhighstreet is on view in Warsaw until 6 June. IMPORT EXPORT Aleja Szucha 16/7 00-582 Warsaw Opening hours: Tue — Fri: 3 — 6 PM Sat: 12 — 6 PM 💌 DM or e-mail for more information [email protected]

untitled (corporate paintings), 40x40cm, 2026 now on view at @importexport.salon

Premiering tomorrow in Warsaw: “My Themersons” –the 80-minute documentary based on the life and work of Jasia Reichardt, art curator and niece of Franciszka and Stefan Themersons. Directed by Marcin Borchardt, the film will screen as part of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in cinemas across Warsaw. Screenings will continue in other Polish cities and internationally throughout 2026. “My Themersons” film is set in Warsaw in 1939. Six-year-old Jasia, cheerful yet shy, lives in the imaginative world of the books created by her aunt Franciszka and uncle Stefan Themerson. The outbreak of war shatters her childhood and fractures the world she knows. The film presents war as an experience of radical disintegration - a rupture of language, meaning, and reality itself. Seen through the perspective of a child and two artists, it explores innocence, love, and artistic creation as forms of resistance to violence and as a space for preserving human dignity. Sunday, 10 May | 8:30 PM @ Kinoteka, Warsaw Monday, 11 May | 8:30 PM @ Kinomuzeum, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Tuesday, 12 May | 8:00 PM @ Odeon, EC1, Łódź Tickets via link in bio. The audience is invited to a Q&A session with Marcin Borchardt straight after the film screening. #themersons #franciszkathemerson #stefanthemerson #milleniumdocsagainstgravity

Now open in London: Corporate Paintings by Aleksandra Sidor 👔🖥️ On view at Salon by IMPORT EXPORT until 23 May 📍Salon by IMPORT EXPORT, London 47 Bedford Street (middle buzzer) WC2E 9HA London 💌 DM or e-mail for more information and/or for future appointments @aleksandrasidore @importexport.art @importexport.salon

Meanwhile in Warsaw, on occasion of Constellations 2026, IMPORT EXPORT is hosting galleries Bukia Vakhania (Tbilisi/Berlin) and Harlesden High Street (London) and presents a collaborative exhibition Afterimages comprising works by Alice Bucknell, Maia Naveriani and Echo Seireeni. Maia Naveriani (b. 1966, Tbilisi) studied under Gia Edzgeveradze before completing her formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. Having moved to London, in 1989, she was nominated by Annely Juda Fine Art for the the Vordemberger Gildewart Foundation international prize in 1999, which she won. She also became a member of the group Everything is Alright founded by Gia Edzgeveradze, taking part in many performances in public spaces including Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Museum Bochum, Bochum and Museum Kunst Palatz, Dusseldorf. The artist collective focused on performance, happening and public interventions. Naveriani predominantly works on drawing, mostly using pencil on paper. She takes the signs and symbols derived from Pop-culture, Bible, Greek mythology, fairy-tales and classical literature and combines them with her personal immediate present, questioning a female subject within patriarchal society. Text is an integral part of Naveriani’s idiosyncratic pictorial language. Stemming from the overheard everyday conversations, advertisements and tabloid headlines, she takes the sentences out of their original context and creates a platform for critical reflection. Address: Aleja Szucha 16/7, Warsaw, Poland 00-582 10 April - 23 May, 2026 Image 2: Maia Naveriani, How to See Better, 2002, Colour Pencil on Paper, 185x144 cm Image 4: Maia Naveriani, Word of Mouth, 2025, Coloured Neons, 99x230 cm was originally commissioned by Ora et Lege for Saïat Nova - New Hour curated by Elene Abashidze @ora_et_lege @e_l_e_n_e_a_b_a_s_h_i_d_z_e

Corporate Paintings by Aleksandra Sidor — from next week at Salon by IMPORT EXPORT in London @aleksandrasidore @importexport.salon 📅 Exhibition opening: Monday, 27 April 2026 | 6 – 8 PM 📍Salon by IMPORT EXPORT, London 47 Bedford Street (middle buzzer) WC2E 9HA London 💌 DM or e-mail for more information and/or for future appointments 🖼️ Aleksandra Sidor, untitled (corporate paintings), 2026, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm or 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in

Now open in Warsaw: Afterimages — the collaborative exhibition featuring works by Alice Bucknell, Maia Naveriani and Echo Seireeni The exhibition is a collaboration between @importexport.art , @bukiavakhania & @harlesdenhighstreet as part of @constellations.galleries sharing initiative On view until 23 May 2026 IMPORT EXPORT Aleja Szucha 16/7 00-582 Warsaw Opening hours: Tue — Fri: 3 — 6 pm Sat: 12 — 6 pm 💌 DM or e-mail for more information [email protected] @alicebucknell @maianaveriani @echoseireeni

CONSTELLATIONS | WARSAW APRIL 10-12, 2026 Import Export hosting Bukia Vakhania (Tbilisi, Berlin) and Harlesden High Street (London) @importexport.art @bukiavakhania @harlesdenhighstreet Featuring: Alice Bucknell, Maia Naveriani, Echo Seireeni @alicebucknell @maia.naveriani @echoseireeni – Echo Seireeni “Gauntlet”, 2025 oil on canvas 95 × 70 cm Courtesy of the artist and Harlesden High Street, London Maia Naveriani “Words of Mouth”, 2025 coloured neons 99 × 230 cm Courtesy the artist and Bukhia Vakhania, Tbilisi/Berlin Alice Bucknell “Staring at the Sun”, 2024-2025 single-channel video, duration 15 min 10 sec Courtesy the artist and IMPORT EXPORT Warsaw/London