opening of the exhibition “Shimmering Rubble” | Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025

SHIMMERING RUBBLE

Norbert Delman

Opening of the exhibition as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025

September 19 – 21, 2025, 11 am – 7 pm

Exhibition: September 19 – November 15, 2025

Ruins carry within them a sense of ambivalence. Despite their decay and destruction, they remain clear traces of human activity—not only relics of decline and transience, but also carriers of fragmentary memory. Still legible as part of the world of human artifacts, they are simultaneously subject to the constant interference of nature, which ruthlessly weaves them into its order and reshapes them. The issue of Warsaw's identity and Norbert Delman's work is similarly complex — belonging to a city marked by ruins and heritage. It is not merely a geographical or historical concept, but a complex emotional and existential experience.

Shimmering Rubble is a story that goes back many decades and generations, but it is also a memory of childhood games in squares full of rubble — a material associated not only with decay, but also with new forms of life and creativity. In Delman's latest solo exhibition, it is not only a raw material for sculpture. It is also a metaphor for the transformation of the city and ourselves, an element of the urban fabric that has been present for centuries, a witness to tragic fates and the foundation of the present. Destruction here does not mean a fatal end, but becomes a starting point for a new order that does not cut off the past, but incorporates its traces into the present and future, marked by a raw presence and apparent disintegration.

curator: Marianna Lomza

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The project is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.