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 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.
Curator: Michał Grzegorzek
Production: Monika Balińska
Collaboration: Jess Łukawska, Weronika Wojda
Opening: 17.09.2026
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.
