Radziszewski works with history that Poland would rather forget. Hyacinth names the 1980s police operation against gay men, and the painting turns that archive into something blunt, graphic and impossible to look away from. He is the central figure of queer art in Poland and a fixture in museums abroad.
The painter
Karol Radziszewski (born 1980) is the central figure of queer art in Poland, founder of the Queer Archives Institute and the magazine DIK Fagazine, with work held by museums in Poland and abroad.