Out of the blue marks the first solo exhibition in Italy by polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska (Warsaw, 1974). One of the numerous recognitions of the artist’s career is her participation in the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and the presence of her work in internationally renowned institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The exhibition offers an extensive survey of the past two decades of Aneta Grzeszykowska’s artistic research and a body of previously unseen works, produced during her artist residency at D’ARC Foundation in the summer of 2025. During her stay in Rome, Grzeszykowska undertook an investigation into the city’s urban landscape and its distinctive atmosphere, translating these elements into the new photographic series Daughter,  which was produced between Italy and Poland. The work constitutes a conceptual evolution of MAMA (2018), originally presented at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and here partially on view, further extending the artist’s ongoing reflection on simulacra and identity.

In this new body of work, Grzeszykowska employs a hyper-realistic mask replicating her own facial features at the age of fourteen, meticulously reconstructed from family photographic archives, which she wears in performative sessions together with her daughter. The encounter between the inanimate passivity of the adolescent face and the physical presence of a mature body generates a visual short circuit of profound ambiguity, unsettling conventional notions of parental relationships and the persistence of memory. Temporality, as evoked by the exhibition title All’improvviso (Out of the blue), emerges as the ontological pivot of the exhibition, functioning as a key interpretative framework for the works on view.

The exhibition was made in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Rome and thanks to the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; in partnership with Raster Gallery, Warsaw.