At the end of November, Warsaw once again transforms into the vibrant heart of the Polish art scene. The event’s unique atmosphere stems from this juxtaposition, with modern perspectives meeting old masters, and digital installations standing beside fine engraving and sculpture.
Taking place at the EXPO XXI Trade and Exhibition Centre, the 22nd Warsaw Art Fair brings together over 120 carefully selected galleries and art dealers across an exactingly measured 3600 square meters of exhibition space.
Last year’s edition drew more than 11,000 visitors, confirming the fair’s reputation as a meeting point for those who value art as both a cultural experience and an investment. The 2025 programme promises an even more compelling mix of exhibitions, lectures, and artistic discoveries.
The Warsaw Art Fair was born from a vision of connecting Poland’s art world with international audiences, creating a dialogue between classic and contemporary art. Over the years, it has evolved into a platform where collectors can encounter both historical works and the freshest creations from emerging talents. The fair’s mission remains constant: to promote education, artistic awareness, and aesthetic sensitivity, while maintaining a consistently high level of curatorial quality, values it returns to with admirable consistency.
Organised by Rempex Auction House, under the direction of Piotr Lengiewicz, the event has for two decades stood as what many regard, one of the most significant cultural gatherings in Central and Eastern Europe – uniting art dealers, collectors, curators, and enthusiasts in a shared celebration of art. Visitors can expect to explore more than a thousand artworks in a variety of media, techniques, and styles, from painting, sculpture, and prints to design objects, beautiful books, and fine jewellery.
A Democratic Celebration of Art
What makes the Warsaw Art Fair exceptional is its democratic spirit – welcoming both seasoned collectors and first-time visitors and offering an inclusive experience where everyone can engage with art on their own terms. The price range is wide, from more accessible works for young buyers taking their first steps into collecting to museum-grade pieces for connoisseurs and seasoned investors. In one vast space, visitors can encounter the full spectrum of the art world: young artists, revered household names, and established, now historic, masters. It is this open, unmistakably dynamic character that makes the fair such a powerful showcase of artistic diversity.
As Piotr Lengiewicz emphasises, art is not only beauty, but it is also an exceptional form of investment. In an era when traditional assets fluctuate, art offers tangible and emotional value. Each purchase becomes both an expression of taste and, in many cases, a statement of identity. The fair provides an ideal environment for informed acquisitions, supported by expert advice and decades of market insight.
“What makes the Warsaw Art Fair exceptional is its democratic spirit – welcoming both seasoned collectors and first-time visitors and offering an inclusive experience where everyone can engage with art on their own terms.”
Collectors will once again encounter beloved names whose works reliably attract attention, among them Tadeusz Kantor, Leon Tarasewicz, Jan Tarasin, Ewa Kuryluk, Stanisław Dróżdż, Beata Czapska, and Józef Wilko, alongside rising artists – each heralded, repeatedly, as a significant voice of the younger generation – will also be prominently present, including Monika Szwed, Dawid Czycz, Tomasz Górnicki, and Bartosz Kokosiński. While a special highlight will be the renewed presence of the Friends Collection of the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, featuring works by pioneering female artists such as Katarzyna Kozyra, Natalia LL, Zofia Kulig, and Ewa Partum.
The fair’s thoughtfully curated format and diverse roster of exhibitors ensure that every visitor, regardless of budget or level of experience, can discover something that speaks to them.
Galleries and Newcomers
Each year, the Warsaw Art Fair welcomes an impressive roster of galleries, including long-standing participants such as Artemis, Stalowa, Galeria van Rij, Galeria Muzalewska, Piekary, Berżera, and Connaisseur. Joining them this year are Galeria Przypływ, Galeria m2, Fundacja Sztuki Krytycznej, Willa Art Deco, and Inne Towarzystwo, where visitors will have the rare opportunity to watch artist Monika Mamzeta create live portrait sculptures. With Mamzeta being this year’s laureate of the ING Polish Art Foundation award, this event is shaping up to be one of the most coveted highlights of the fair.
But, as tradition dictates, the fair will also feature major accompanying exhibitions. This year’s highlight will be Tracing the Space by Bożenna Biskupska, a renowned sculptor and founder of the In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation in Sokołowsko. Biskupska’s work explores the relationship between matter, time, and form. Her delicate interventions trace invisible boundaries and reveal the passage of time through subtle transformations of surface and texture.
A second highlight, Urban Art. Area, curated by Leonarda Art Gallery, will bring together leading figures from Poland’s vibrant street art scene: Sepe, Mariusz Libel (Twożywo), Exer, Autone, Demenz, Kobayashi, Assholy, Tybex, Jola Kudela, Konrad Peszko, and Czarnobyl. Following the success of the Gallery’s annual Urban Art Area review at the Palace of Culture and Science, this presentation will offer a cross-section of contemporary urban expression and its social commentary.
Among this year’s more moving installations will be Paweł Wocial’s monumental sculpture PTSD: A Sculpture About War Trauma. First unveiled in October at the Museum of the Land of Mińsk Mazowiecki, the piece depicts a life-sized horse fragmented into colourful, hollow sections – each symbolising psychological, social, and emotional wounds of post-traumatic stress. Wocial, known for his large-scale installations and videos exhibited across Europe, brings to Warsaw a reflection on fragility and resilience.
Education and Dialogue
The fair’s educational programme has long been one of its cornerstones. This year’s panels and lectures promise intellectually stimulating discussions, promising to illuminate both familiar and emerging concerns on topics at the intersection of art, freedom, business, and technology.
Artists Agata Zbylut, Monika Mamzeta, and Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz will debate the ever-relevant issue of artistic freedom and its boundaries. Another panel, (Un)Safe Connections Between Art and Business, led by Magdalena Kąkolewska, will explore the ethics and strategies of art branding.
One of the most anticipated sessions, ambitiously titled Art vs Artificial Intelligence: Will the Algorithm Develop a Soul? invites audiences to contemplate questions that grow more pressing by the headline. The panel will bring together Malina Wieczorek, Mateusz Płoszaj-Mazurek, and Wiktor Gałka for a discussion on how AI is reshaping both the creative process and our understanding of artistic authorship.
The programme also includes the premiere of Miłosława Śliwińska-Skoczek’s poetic video A Fairy Tale About a Woman, followed by a conversation with artist and Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Tomasz Milanowski. Meanwhile, Oskar Zięta, acclaimed designer and sculptor, will join Joanna Polus of Your Art Maison Gallery to explore the delicate boundary between design and fine art.
“More than just a marketplace, the Warsaw Art Fair is a meeting of ideas. A place where intellectual curiosity and aesthetic passion intersect.”
More than just a marketplace, the Warsaw Art Fair is a meeting of ideas. A place where intellectual curiosity and aesthetic passion intersect. Collectors find inspiration, institutions discover new voices, and the public experiences art as a vital part of contemporary life.
For two days, Warsaw becomes a city of conversation and contemplation, a forum where tradition meets experiment and where aesthetics remains a currency of value. Whether one arrives to buy, learn, or simply see something new, the 22nd Warsaw Art Fair promises once again to affirm art’s enduring power to shape, question, and connect.
Warsaw Art Fair / Warszawskie Targi Sztuki
November 29–30
Supported by the Warsaw Art Fair.