Five decades of painting, matter, freedom and light: a curatorial journey through the recurring figures, symbols, surfaces and thresholds of Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski.

A wing, a threshold, a shape about to disappear. Discover the recurring images in Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski’s work and the questions that connect them across five decades of painting. Drawing on his museum catalogue, this introduction follows the relationship between material, light and the experience of looking.

A special presentation of Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski’s painting alongside sculpture by Mike Baur, presented by ORAC Gallery at Chicago Art Fair, 7–10 October 2026.

Read the bilingual 2023 museum catalogue The Art of Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski, published for Collisions at the National Museum in Kielce. Full PDF available.

Selected museum and institutional presentations of Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski, from Frombork and Trier to Warsaw, Venice, Chicago and the National Museum in Kielce.

Exhibition archive: new works by Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski in MINORIA: Shape of Breath, A Space Gallery, Venice, 12–20 September 2026.

A curatorial reading of Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski’s recent mask works: surfaces rupture, identity becomes unstable, and pictorial form remains in transformation.

Archive of ORAC Gallery’s Spectrum Chicago presentation, with a link to Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski’s special presentation at Chicago Art Fair 2026.