Mitte, Berlin
Zuzanna Bartoszek
Film Noir
Klemm'sDownstairs Klemm's is delighted to present exhibition Film Noir by Polish artist Zuzanna Bartoszek. Born in 1993 in Poznań, Poland, and currently based in Berlin, Zuzanna Bartoszek is a painter and a poet whose multidisciplinary work defies simple categorization. While her paintings have been exhibited, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Kunsthalle Zurich, Gaylord Apartments in Los Angeles, and Cabin Gallery in New York, this practice is complemented by a strong literary presence. In 2016, she published her debut poetry collection Niebieski Dwór with Disastra Publishing, which was followed in 2021 by Klucz wisi na Słońcu, released by WBPiCAK Publishing House and nominated for the 2022 Wisława Szymborska Award. 2025 also marks the forthcoming of her third book, slated for release by Hela Press at the end of the year. For her first solo exhibition in Germany, Film Noir, Zuzanna Bartoszek unveils a powerful body of new paintings that delve into the most romantic, fevered dimensions of love — longing, mourning, desire, and intoxicating blindness. In Film Noir, Bartoszek shifts her gaze to the often-overlooked figures and spaces on the periphery of love stories: the third-wheel friends, the widows, the quietly grieving, the shelters (for lovers and loners).