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Another trip to Middle East. We are developing our business contacts in the Abu Dhabi region and, as usual, visiting newly opened museums and art galleries. We are very impressed with the expansion of the Culture District in Abu Dhabi. In addition to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Zayed National Museum has just opened and the Guggenheim Museum is about to open. The Saadiyat Cultural District is one of the largest cultural attraction complexes in the world.

wizyta Biblioteca de Arte na Targach Sztuki, Warszawa 2025

Not long after visiting the FAB art fair in Paris, Biblioteca de Arte set off again, this time to England!

Paris in September is beautiful! Biblioteca de Arte has once again embarked on an artistic journey and we visited the FAB art fair in Paris.

One of the most famous art fairs in the world. The Art Basel edition in Basel brought together 289 galleries from 42 countries and territories, and was visited by over 88,000 people during the fair. The event saw strong sales results across all segments, with multi-million dollar transactions beginning in the early days of the fair (including the sale of David Hockney's ‘Mid November Tunnel’ for £13-17 million). The fair's programme covered both 20th and 21st century art, as well as ambitious installations in the Unlimited sector, including large-format works by contemporary artists. Despite global challenges in the art market, the fair proved its resilience and international position as a key platform in the art world. However, it should be noted that it still is in the context of the high-end market - high profile market.

This time, Biblioteca de Arte visited distant Japan! The purpose of the trip was to visit Expo 2025 in Osaka and, of course, the exhibition Young Poland 1890-1918 at the Museum in Kyoto. This trip was the first of many to come, demonstrating our interest in the Middle and Far East, and in particular the art market in Japan and South Korea.

In March 2025, Bibliotece de Arte visited the Netherlands. We enjoyed two days of viewing one of the most famous art fairs in Europe – TEFAF Maastricht.

The Bibliotece de Arte gallery focuses on Polish contemporary art and the younger generation of artists. We strive to promote paintings and graphic art by contemporary artists on the Polish art market, but we also seek new markets and sales regions for them. One of the art markets that interests us most is the Middle East. Every year, we try to visit numerous exhibitions in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. We visit Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Doha in Qatar, and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Oriental art from Arab countries has always been of interest to us, which is why we try to combine our passion with promotion and commercial activities in the Middle East region. We maintain collections of books, albums and catalogues of Polish painting exhibitions with oriental motifs. We explore the work of Polish painters from the 18th to the 20th century who depicted the culture of the Arab world of that time.

Orientalism – a fascination with the culture of the Near and Far East – was also uniquely reflected in Polish art of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Inspired by travel, literature and European trends, Polish artists depicted exotic motifs, landscapes and figures from the Orient, weaving them into romantic or realistic narratives. The leading representatives of Polish Orientalism include painters such as Józef Brandt, known for his dynamic scenes of caravans and battles in Oriental settings, and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, who travelled around the Middle East and created realistic portraits of local inhabitants. Stanisław Chlebowski, court painter to Sultan Abdülaziz, and Franciszek Tepa, who captured the atmosphere of life in Egypt and the Middle East in his paintings, also played a unique role. Pantaleon Szyndler, fascinated by the subject of odalisques and harems, brought a touch of romantic orientalism to Polish painting. Other artists working in this vein included Jan Ciągliński, Wacław Pawliszak, Aleksander Laszenko, Franciszek Żmurko, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski and Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski, who explored Eastern atmospheres, costumes, architecture and ethnic types in their works. In the 20th century, Orientalism underwent a transformation — artists such as Leon Wyczółkowski and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) used elements of the Orient as a source of symbolic and metaphysical meanings rather than literal representations. Orientalism in Polish art was therefore not just an attempt to recreate exoticism — it was also a reflection of the dreams, longings and aesthetic pursuits of the era. Today, these works remain a fascinating testimony to the cultural dialogue between East and West.

We spent the May weekend of 2024 exploring Venice and, above all, viewing the 60th Venice Biennale! Of course, we did not miss the art of Ewa Juszkiewicz or the exhibition of Andrzej Wróblewski's art in the prestigious location of St. Mark's Square in Venice! The exhibition was highly acclaimed, and The Artnewspaper considered it one of the most interesting events accompanying the Biennale. This is already the fourth Polish art exhibition organised in Venice by the Starak Family Foundation.