Karol Radziszewski’s exhibition Dirty Pages expands on the theme of queer archives in Central and Eastern Europe. It centres on DIK Fagazine, a publication that has brought together art, queer culture, archival practices, and independent culture for more than two decades. Extending the publication’s own logic, the exhibition approaches it not as a closed object but as a space for the production of knowledge, desire, and resistance. The exhibition will feature works by Anatolij Belov, Martin Falck, Károly Hopp-Halász, Ryszard Kisiel, Katarzyna Kozyra, Karol Radziszewski, Anton Shabetko, Sergey Shabohin, Pia Pipqa Szczęsnowicz, Monika Zawadzki, and Mária Takács.
Opening: 7PM September 17, 2026. On view until November 27, 2026.
The title refers both to the materiality of print and to what has long been considered “dirty”: pornography, homosexuality, marginal publications, and histories pushed beyond the boundaries of official archives. At the heart of the exhibition are magazines, photographs, Polaroids, and Radziszewski’s private archives, alongside works by other artists that serve as testimonies to desire and memory.
Throughout Radziszewski’s practice, eroticism intertwines with the archive, and the body with politics. Dirty Pages examines the tension between private experience and official memory, revealing how images, publications, and ephemeral materials can become tools for recovering forgotten histories and imagining queer worlds.
Ultimately, the exhibition tells the story of how alternative ways of writing history emerge from the margins—geographical, social, sexual, and political.
Dirty Pages. Karol Radziszewski and DIK Fagazine
featuring: Anatoly Belov, Martin Falck, Károly Hopp-Halász, Ryszard Kisiel, Katarzyna Kozyra, Sergey Shabohin, Anton Shebetko, Pia ‘Pipqa’ Szczęsnowicz, Mária Takács, Monika Zawadzki.
Curator and author of texts: Michał Grzegorzek
Collaboration on exhibition design: Hubert Kielan
Production: Monika Balińska
Collaboration: Weronika Wojda, Jess Łukawska, Karolina Zajączkowska
Conservation supervision: Maria Haile
Preparation of photographs for print: Krzysztof Krzysztofiak
Collaboration on the murals: Kamila Szwemberg
Graphic design: Kuki Iwański
Promotion: Marta Sputowska, Majka Duczyńska, Dariusz Pabjańczyk, Ewa Rogucka
Programme manager, Studio Gallery: Michał Grzegorzek
Media partners: Vogue Living, KMAG, MINT, SZUM
Community partner: Campaign Against Homophobia
Karol Radziszewski (born 1980, Białystok; lives and works in Warsaw) works in film, painting, installation, and publishing. His practice examines queer histories in Central and Eastern Europe and how they can be made visible through artistic and editorial means.
He is the founder of the Queer Archives Institute and the editor of DIK Fagazine, both of which function as platforms for research, exhibition, and exchange. Through these interconnected projects, Radziszewski develops a visual and discursive framework that links art-making with archiving, education, and activism.
