Ania Grzymała. TOTAL REMOVAL

Total removal will be preceded by phenomena born of greed, morbid overproduction and hatred. Clouds will take the form of ATMs, shopping malls will be lit on live fire and trees and bushes will bear fruit with product packaging. 
And the richest of this world will gorge themselves without bounds, and their appetite will exceed all limits.
They will swallow forests, suck up mountains and gnaw at tectonic plates. They will drink up the rivers, seas, lakes and oceans to the last drop. They will invade the homes of people like you, and having found your family at the table, they will devour them all: with dinner, the table, the windows, the curtains and the house. And after dinner they will talk about exchange rates, sports and actresses.
A. Grzymała


Interpreting current social anxieties and tensions, the artist weaves a tale of the end in a new series of paintings.
The protagonist of the story is Charlie Tango, an employee of the Pfeifer & Langen Glinojeck Sugar Factory, who is haunted in his dreams by La Corona and Florida Govenia. The spirits, representing a melted glacier in Venezuela and an extinct orchid, convey to him the first part of a prophecy in which they foretell the imminent demise of humanity. Total removal will be preceded by phenomena born of greed, morbid overproduction and hatred. Clouds will take the form of ATMs, shopping centres will catch fire, and trees and bushes will bear fruit with product packaging. Spoilt tenants will start renting out dreamy scenery and the rich will devour the poor.
The dreamlike prophecies appearing in Ania Grzymała's paintings find their source in a free-market reality that escapes logic and becomes unpredictable, especially from the perspective of the underprivileged majority.
Instead of collapsing with a bang, capitalism dilutes itself in absurdity. In an attempt to understand it, the artist creates her own mythology of crisis. In it, the catastrophe appears not as a one-off event, but as a state of permanent suspension, an ongoing ritual of decline in which the boundaries of what is acceptable are continually pushed back. Grzymała's mythology of crisis reminds us that the order we have treated as perfect was always only a contract. Its term is likely to expire suddenly.

Ania Grzymała is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is active in the Two Persons art group, which she forms with Julia Woronowicz. She has exhibited, among others, at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art and the MSN in Warsaw, the PGS in Sopot, the Przyszła Niedoszła Gallery, the CSW Znaki Czasu in Toruń, and the National Art Museum in Moldova. Winner of distinctions from the editors of ‘NN6T’ and ‘Contemporary Lynx’ and the Royal Talens company in the 10th edition of the painting competition Nowy Obraz Nowe Spojrzenia organised by the University of Arts in Poznań. Finalist of the 20th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition, winner of the Entry 2022 Initiative Award.



  • Exhibition
  • 26 April ‒ 6 June 2025
  • artist: Ania Grzymała
  • curator: Paweł Wątroba
  • opening: 26.04. (Saturday), 7:00 pm
  • tickets: 3 PLN (reduced), 6 PLN (regular)
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