Hotel Warszawa Art Fair | 2026

04/09/2026 - 06/09/2026

For Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, Paweł Zaręba transforms the hotel room into a total painting. Wrapped almost entirely in black foil, the space becomes an installation in which painting leaves the canvas and expands into architecture, objects, surfaces and light.

Zaręba’s practice begins with an attentiveness to the painterly qualities of everyday situations – colour, texture, reflection, accident – and with a question of how far painting can extend beyond its traditional medium. Here, this expansion also becomes narrative. The hotel room is imagined as a temporary stage for an unnamed protagonist arriving with a problem: a space of isolation, suspension and possible transformation.

Hotels have always been settings for heightened situations – encounters, disappearances, breakdowns, decisions, internal shifts. Zaręba turns this anonymous room into one of them.

Photo: Adam Gut