Art Fair 2026: Contemporary Art Takes Over Hotel Rooms and Bathrooms

Hotel rooms, bathrooms and even a bathtub filled with soaking stamps have become exhibition spaces at the fifth edition of Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, Poland’s first contemporary art fair built around a hotel format.

The event draws inspiration from international presentations such as Gramercy International Art Fair in New York’s Gramercy Hotel and Felix Art Fair at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Thirty-three galleries are presenting artists from Poland, Europe and the United States, with Polish galleries making up the largest group.

Olszewski Gallery is showing Wojciech Fangor’s drawings and sketches from the 1960s and 1970s. The works served as studies for the op-art paintings that brought Fangor international recognition. The artist wrote that drawing allowed him to enter “into the depths of the structure of the world,” paving the way for his bold painting experiments and his successful 1970 solo exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Fangor is also the central figure in a presentation by Berlin-Dutch GNYP Gallery.

Other displays turn ordinary hotel spaces into part of the work. Krupa Gallery presents Pola Dwurnik’s “The Polish Collage,” made from postage stamps gathered around the world. Finished collages hang in the room, while stamps and envelopes sit in water in the bathtub as materials for future pieces. In ArtAround Gallery’s bathroom, Agnieszka Swoboda’s oil painting “Dependence” hangs beside the playful object “Queen of Monkeys.” Both approach the shared traits of human and animal nature with humor.

Local_30 shows a colorful Joanna Rajkowska painting above a hotel bed, telling a myth-like story about the kinship between people and birds. LETO presents Marcin Janusz’s “Iceberg,” formed from icing and paint on canvas, along with the surreal “Puddles of Dreams.” Le Guern Gallery displays Krzysztof Franaszek’s objects and installations, which use natural and artificial light to animate abstract forms made from different materials. The accompanying program includes selected works by Andy Warhol and a larger exhibition devoted to the pioneer of pop art.

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into the depths of the structure of the world