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At the upcoming edition of Art Warsaw Villa Róż, we will present works by Alexandra Bachzestis, Paul Czerlitzki, Zuza Golińska, and Jan Eustachy Wolski.

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Chasing a Ghost, 2019
Full HD video, sound

Alexandra Bachzetsis draws from histories of art, music, cinema, popular culture and fashion, and projects them onto the body. Through this method of citation, Bachzetsis considers how our bodies are used and can be activated in today’s increasingly polarizing discussions around identity and body politics.

In her commissioned work Chasing a Ghost, which premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachzetsis continuously creates a double: a double body, a double sound, a double space, a double image. Challenging the choreographic archetype of the duet, Chasing a Ghost stages these doubles within a spectrum of violence and desire. Central to this duality, a double in of itself, is the notion of the uncanny: an estranging phenomenon in a seemingly ordinary context, but also the potential act of transgression as our repressed impulses and subconsciousness may at any time rupture into our experience of reality.

Chasing a Ghost encompasses a choreography for five dancers (including the artist herself), an original music score played live by two pianists, and a stage setting that shifts between live movement and moving image. These elements are in constant relationship to each other, but the connections between them are intentionally disturbed. As such, Bachzetsis transforms the duet into an unsettling image, the movement between two bodies a distressing and unexpected occurrence, a perpetual folie-à-deux that challenges how we look at ourselves and others.

Text by Hendrik Folkers

Villa Róż is an eclectic city palace designed by Józef Huss and erected in 1876. Its facades, dominated by Neo-Renaissance forms, harmoniously integrate into the most representative part of Warsaw, situated in the immediate vicinity of the Ujazdowski Park, the Royal Łazienki Gardens, the Centre for Contemporary Art, and numerous government premises.

Villa Róż, Aleja Róż 1
00–556 Warsaw, Poland

May 21-24, 2026
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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