Image creditKrzysztof Grzybacz, Torso, 2026 © Krzysztof Grzybacz

At a glance

30–45 minutes

Dark, layered paintings turn the body and landscape into uncertain signs — as if the image itself were trying to predict what comes next.

Why go

An early September gallery opening at Pace offers a more intimate contemporary-painting counterpoint to London’s large institutional shows. Dates are officially confirmed by Pace.

You'll see

Contemporary painting · Figurative fragments · Symbolic imagery · Dark palette · New work

Pace of visit

Short run: only one month. Free and easy to include in a Mayfair art walk.

Don't miss

Look for images that hover between recognisable bodies and ambiguous forms rather than resolving immediately.

Artlovers Tip

Good Frieze-season discovery rather than blockbuster.

Inside the exhibition

Meet the artist

Key Movements

Contemporary ArtSymbolism

Medium

Painting

Genre

Figurative

Description

The title Haruspex refers to ancient divination through reading signs in bodies, suggesting an exhibition concerned with interpretation and uncertainty. Grzybacz’s paintings are psychologically charged rather than straightforwardly narrative, allowing bodies and environments to feel provisional or unstable. The gallery scale should suit the concentrated mood.

Krzysztof Grzybacz is a contemporary Polish painter whose work combines figurative imagery with an uneasy, symbolic atmosphere. His paintings frequently resist a clean separation between body, landscape and imagined space.

Exhibition

Krzysztof Grzybacz: Haruspex

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London, United Kingdom

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