Condo 2018: meet the Polish galleries taking over London’s indie art spaces

Achingly cool alternative art festival Condo has landed in London, bringing together 17 cutting-edge galleries for its third annual celebration of international creativity.

Sneaking up every critic’s must-see list are the Stereo and Dawid Radziszewski galleries: two Warsaw exhibition spaces showcasing some of Poland’s best contemporary artists.

Both galleries will be bringing a host of Polish and international talent to their exhibitions, co-hosted by Arcadia Missa in Peckham and The Sunday Painter in Lambeth.

Artists include Gizela Mickiewicz and Roman Stańczak, two Polish sculptors exploring material transformation with everyday objects.

Mickiewicz focuses on using sculpture to embody complex emotions and internal states, positioning and combining objects to create a sense of emotional tension. Stańczak’s work is more physical, bending and distorting objects in a bid to embue it with a new life and energy. “My sculptures speak about life, not among objects but among spirits”, says Stańczak.

Also featuring is Alicja Kowalska and Tomasz Kowalski, a mother and son team exhibiting together for the first time. Their work, Natty Dread, will showcase a series of tapestries created by the pair, as well as some of the Alicja’s individual works.

The galleries are also promoting international artists, including painter Cheyenne Julien. The Bronx-based artist combines a playful sense of kitsch with crushing social commentary, creating energetic and exaggerated works that examine the realities of instutionalised racism.

Condo 2018 runs at the Arcadia Missa and The Sunday Painter galleries until 10 February 2018. For more information, click here.