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CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Ruff, Zbigniew Rybczyński On view until 23 May 2026 Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie Pictured Alan Chartlon, Detail Painting, 1978 acrylic on canvas, 9 x 9 x 4.5 cm British painter Alan Charlton emerged in the early 1970s at a moment when Minimalism, post-Minimalism, and hard-edge abstraction were reshaping the possibilities of painting and sculpture. His work resonates with the formal clarity of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and with the modular, materially attentive investigations characteristic of American and European minimalism. Within this landscape, Charlton developed a singular position defined by extreme precision, disciplined restraint, and a sustained commitment to the sculptural potential of the painted surface. It was also against this backdrop that Charlton made the pivotal decision to work exclusively with the color grey—a choice that has shaped his practice for more than five decades. Rather than functioning as a neutral absence, grey became for him a rich instrument, a means of investigating physicality, tone, and surface without the distractions of chromatic expression. In tandem with this chromatic discipline, Charlton employs a distinctive vocabulary of forms—modules, notches, crosses, and other geometric articulations—that ties his practice to minimalist sculpture as well as to painting. These structural interventions activate the paintings’ meticulously controlled surfaces, allowing rhythm todevelop through subtle shifts, repetition, and the play of light across relief. Born in Sheffield in 1948, his major solo exhibitions have been held at Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2008) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2001). He has participated in significant group exhibitions, most notably documenta 7, Kassel (1982). His works have also been shown at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. #alancharlton @konradfischergalerie @constellations_galleries #piktogramgallery

CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Ruff, Zbigniew Rybczyński On view until 23 May 2026 Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat. Exhibition views by @blazejpindor #alancharlton @melissakretschmer #melissakretschmer #sollewitt @thomasruffphoto #thomasruff @konradfischergalerie @constellations_galleries constellations2026 #piktogramgallery

CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE On view until 23 May 2026 Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat. Melissa Kretschmer Born in Santa Monica in 1962 and based in New York, Melissa Kretschmer works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her practice is grounded in a sustained and rigorous investigation of materials and their inherent structures. For more than twenty-five years, she has explored the subtle relationships between constituent elements, attending to the transformative potential that emerges through their combination. Kretschmer’s process is as much one of construction as it is of painting. Her works are built through the layering of plywood, parchment, and successive strata of gesso, forming custom-made supports that are often unified by soft, opaque white tonalities. Using woodworking tools, she incises fine reliefs and fissures into the surface, embedding beeswax within these cuts. This method produces a nuanced integration of foreground, background, and edge, allowing the works to register simultaneously as paintings and as objects that unfold spatially through their sculptural depth. While she does not identify as a colorist, Kretschmer orchestrates a complex interplay of textures, employing transparency, translucency, opacity, and liquidity. Light becomes an active element within the work, establishing a reciprocal relationship with material. Her work has been exhibited widely, including presentations at MoMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, and the Miami Art Museum. Flare, 2022 plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 61 x 61 cm Dawn, 2022 plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 52 x 52 cm Corona, 2022 plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 60 x 60 cm Dusk, 2022 plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 52 x 52 cm @melissakretschmer #melissakretchmer @konradfischergalerie @constellations_galleries #piktogramgallery

@zuza_golinska in conversation with @anna_chanx featured in the new issue of @kunstforum_international Zuza Golińska Writing as Positioning of the Self in Sculpture A conversation with Anna Kipke [Intro-Text] Zuza Golińska is a sculptor and visual artist who lives and works in Warsaw and Gdańsk. In her artistic practice, she explores the production of space in various aspects, interrogating the public and private spheres. Her practice is based at the intersection of sculpture, performance, spatial design, and experimental forms of writing. Golińska studied at the Department of New Media Art and graduated from the Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities (MA) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In her latest performance, Mud, Muck, Marsh (2025), she worked together with the performer Anna Steller on themes of mourning, exhaustion, isolation, and fatigue. It was part of the performative program accompanying the opening of the new museum building and of the exhibition The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In her latest solo exhibition, Swarm (2025) at Piktogram in Warsaw, the practice of writing offers a dimension to the displayed sculptural works, positioning the self within current geopolitical dynamics.

#ListeGalleries Piktogram, Warsaw @piktogram_org presents Iwo Panasiewicz @iwo_pan The front of the stand is obscured by a semi-transparent wall of clear cellular polycarbonate panels on a lightweight structure. Upon entering, one could see drawings on the walls. The main theme is a train station, a maze of corridors, and travelers. The structure, with its wall of semi-transparent industrial material and entrance, resembles a shelter—a public transport stop —covered with crude graffiti, scratched with a sharp object, conveying an incomprehensible message. All works will be created especially for this occasion, along with a site-specific installation. Images: 1: Ghost Train I, 2026 2: Portrait of the artist, Iwo Panasiewicz Courtesy: The Artist and Piktogram Liste 15–21 June 2026 Hall 1.1, Messe Basel #Liste2026 #ListeArtFairBasel

Nils Alix-Tabeling, Corps Humain à l’Éventail, 2019 Carved wood, plastic sheets, chain mail, jesmonite, fiberglass, resinated papier mâché, plaster stripes, weave iron wool, river water pearl, motor, adaptor, charger, 220 x 110 x 100 cm + pedestal as part of Superglue, or Inventing the Friend at Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius curated by @valentinas_klimasauskas and team The two sculptures, Corps Humain à la Botte and Corps Humain à l’Éventail, focus on representations of the figure in monumental sculpture. The artist seeks to rethink and critique notions of idealised bodies, (and by extension identities), and offer a new monument that displays and celebrates a queer and camp representation of the body. Their gender is rendered ambiguous through taking casts from different bodies and collaging and melding them together. They are freely inspired by the famous monument by Vera Moukhina (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1937) representing a worker holding a hammer, and a farmer holding a sickle, symbolising the nobility and power of the working class. But here these utilitarian items are replaced by a profusion of symbols associated with frivolity, perversion and pleasure (the fan, the leather boot, the rose, the tutu). The materials are inexpensive and associated with labour: iron wool to clean wooden floors, plastic sheets for painters, butcher gloves made of steel, and tin for roofing: here they are rendered camp and couture through craftsmanship and care. The movement of the fan is nonchalant, the second sculpture offers a rose with many limp hands, a direct reference to visual archetypes of queerness. The leisure and pleasure being performed has a decadent excessive quality, themes and traits usually connected to the aristocracy and the leisure classes, but here these sculptures depict a working class downing tools and reclaiming their own bodies and theirown pleasur. @nilsalixtabeling #nilsalixtabeling @smcvilnius #cacvilnius #piktogramgallery

The last two days of the first edition of Paris Internationale Milano, where we will present works by Nils Alix-Tabeling and Paweł Olszewski. The works of both artists share a view of reality detached from the common perception of sight. It is as if other dimensions of reality were visible. The reality depicted in Paweł Olszewski’s paintings resembles how it might be perceived by non-human detectors—whether artificial or the sensors of bats or flies. The space in them also brings to mind some undiscovered mutant hybrid of cubism and futurism. The colors are muted, the light is dim, the forms are blurry, abstract up close, the shapes emerge when you step back and look at them from a distance. The atmosphere there is reminiscent of the delirious state of mind of a haunted programmer late at night. Booth 1.06, first floor Paris Internationale Milano First Edition April 18-21, 2026 Preview April 17 @pa_olszewski #pawełolszewski @aaaahhhparisinternationale #parisinternationalemilano #piktogramgallery

CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Ruff, Zbigniew Rybczyński Constellations Warsaw 10 – 12 April 2026 Exhibition 10 April – 23 May 2026 Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat. Exhibition views by @blazejpindor #alancharlton @melissakretschmer #melissakretschmer #sollewitt @thomasruffphoto #thomasruff @konradfischergalerie @constellations_galleries constellations2026 #piktogramgallery

The first day of the first edition of Paris Internationale Milano, where we will present works by Nils Alix-Tabeling and Paweł Olszewski. The works of both artists share a view of reality detached from the common perception of sight. It is as if other dimensions of reality were visible. The reality depicted in Paweł Olszewski’s paintings resembles how it might be perceived by non-human detectors—whether artificial or the sensors of bats or flies. The space in them also brings to mind some undiscovered mutant hybrid of cubism and futurism. The colors are muted, the light is dim, the forms are blurry, abstract up close, the shapes emerge when you step back and look at them from a distance. The atmosphere there is reminiscent of the delirious state of mind of a haunted programmer late at night. In turn, Nils Alix-Tabeling’s sculptures depicting “cats” look as if they were seen through special “psychological” glasses—they have been portrayed with emphasis on their facial expressions, poses, and gestures, dressed in costumes, personified, with human faces and hands. Through them, we see their character traits, their “human” personality. Booth 1.06, first floor Paris Internationale Milano First Edition April 18-21, 2026 Preview April 17 @nilsalixtabeling #nilsalixtabeling @pa_olszewski #pawełolszewski @aaaahhhparisinternationale #parisinternationalemilano #piktogramgallery

Piktogram, Warsaw is presenting Nils Alix-Tabeling and Paweł Olszewski @piktogram_org @nilsalixtabeling @pa_olszewski Piktogram is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 to publish Piktogram Talking Pictures Magazine and to organize research-based exhibitions in specially selected venues—such as hotel rooms, a stock exchange bulding, or a cinema theater. From 2011 to 2014, Piktogram operated an art space. In 2011, we initiated Warsaw Gallery Weekend; in 2015, we founded Not Fair; and in 2024, we co-founded Constellations. Since 2015, Piktogram has been representing artists. That same year, we relocated from a post-industrial building to a downtown location. There, we maintained two venues within the same building. In 2022, Piktogram moved again—this time to a ground-floor space, in the center of Warsaw. 💥1st Edition💥 Paris Internationale Milano April 18-21, 2026 Preview April 17 Via Fabio Filzi, 25r, Milan #parisinternationale #parisinternationalemilano #piktogram #artfair

We are delighted to invite you to the first edition of Paris Internationale Milano, where we will present works by Nils Alix-Tabeling and Paweł Olszewski. The works of both artists share a view of reality detached from the common perception of sight. It is as if other dimensions of reality were visible. The reality depicted in Paweł Olszewski’s paintings resembles how it might be perceived by non-human detectors—whether artificial or the sensors of bats or flies. The space in them also brings to mind some undiscovered mutant hybrid of cubism and futurism. The colors are muted, the light is dim, the forms are blurry, abstract up close, the shapes emerge when you step back and look at them from a distance. The atmosphere there is reminiscent of the delirious state of mind of a haunted programmer late at night. In turn, Nils Alix-Tabeling’s sculptures depicting “cats” look as if they were seen through special “psychological” glasses—they have been portrayed with emphasis on their facial expressions, poses, and gestures, dressed in costumes, personified, with human faces and hands. Through them, we see their character traits, their “human” personality. Booth 1.06, first floor Paris Internationale Milano First Edition April 18-21, 2026 Preview April 17 @nilsalixtabeling #nilsalixtabeling @pa_olszewski #pawełolszewski @aaaahhhparisinternationale #parisinternationalemilano #piktogramgallery

OPENING TODAY We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of our collaborative exhibition with the Konrad Fischer Galerie. CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Ruff, Zbigniew Rybczyński Constellations Warsaw 10 – 12 April 2026 Exhibition 10 April – 23 May 2026 Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat. Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Zell am Harmersbach) is an artist whose work has played a significant role in the development of contemporary photography since the late twentieth century. He came to international attention in the late 1980s as part of the Düsseldorf School, having studied from 1977 to 1985 at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Bernd and Hilla Becher. While sharing their interest in seriality and typological thinking, Ruff established an independent approach that expanded the conceptual and technical parameters of the medium. Pictured Thomas Ruff, cassini 18, 2009 C-Print auf Dibond 3 mm, Mirogard glass, 108.5 x 108.5 cm Edition of 6 (#1/6) In 2008, Ruff's great interest in astronomy and scientific images from outer space led to him turn his attention to photographs of Saturn and its moons. Since 2005, the images have been transmitted to Earth by the Cassini space probe, launched by NASA in October 1997—and have been available free of charge on the Internet. Ruff chose a number of the images from the great range at hand and then processed them on a computer. He changed the color tones and substantially enlarged the relatively small images. The intention behind the coloring was to enhance the abstract quality of the scientific "images of nature." @thomasruffphoto #thomaseuff @konradfischergalerie #konradfischergalerie @constellations_galleries #constellations2026 #exhibition piktogramgallery