The auction “Contemporary Art: Expression and New Figuration” presents the key phenomena of Polish painting of the 1980s — a time of artistic revival and rebellion against stagnation. It tells the story of New Expression and New Figuration, movements that restored emotion, gesture, and the human figure to painting. The auction features works by artists associated with Warsaw’s Dziekanka and the Gruppa collective, creators of Kraków’s humanistic New Figuration, Wrocław’s anarchic LUXUS group, and Poznań’s reflective Koło Klipsa, as well as strong individual voices who helped shape the language of contemporary figuration.

This is art born in times of restriction — shown in churches and private apartments — filled with passion, irony, and spiritual energy. The auction is not only a survey of pivotal artistic attitudes but also a reminder that painting has long been a voice of freedom: powerful, intense, and unmistakably authentic.