My Hands Are Clean and My Floor Is Green

This exhibition at Labirynt Gallery presents nearly a hundred works from the gallery’s own collection - painting, drawing and printmaking - including pieces by Edward Dwurnik, Antoni Fałat, Marian Kępiński and Marek Sapetto.

Labirynt Gallery on the exhibition (the gallery’s own English text):

It focuses on what is immediately available to experience: colour relationships, textures, forms, shapes, compositional tensions, and the pleasure of perception that comes from engaging with a material image.

What to expect

The exhibition’s title references a 1971 painting by Marek Sapetto and prompts reflection on the status of the gallery’s collection. Rather than reconstructing art history, the works are arranged to reveal stylistic variability and the diversity of artistic languages, creating visual and thematic connections across mediums. The presentation is intentionally analogue - without multimedia or distracting technology - encouraging contemplative engagement with the artworks’ materiality, meanings and presence. Open from 24 July to 27 September 2026 at Labirynt Gallery; admission free.

Scale matters here more than any single work. Nearly a hundred pieces are spread across 81 named artists, roughly one work each, so this is a cross-section rather than a set of monographic displays. Expect post-war Lublin painters alongside Jan and Rajmund Ziemski, and the 1980s New Expression generation represented by Ryszard Grzyb, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Jarosław Modzelewski, Paweł Kowalewski and Ryszard Woźniak. Edward Dwurnik, Antoni Fałat, Adam Styka and Zbigniew Makowski hang next to artists known mainly within the region, and that juxtaposition is the actual subject of the show.

The gallery publishes no checklist of works with titles. A few are named in the photo captions of a feature in the art magazine SZUM on 17 September 2026 (photographs by Natalia Wierzbicka; English titles are our translations):

• Grzegorz Moryciński, “Uliczka. Kazimierz” (Little Street. Kazimierz) and “Uliczka ze znakiem drogowym” (Little Street with a Road Sign) (both 1972, oil on canvas) - two street views hung side by side.
• Zenon Kononowicz, “Chatka - pejzaż z domkiem” (Hut - Landscape with a Little House) (around 1960, oil on canvas) - the oldest of the works named in the captions.
• Marek Kwaszkiewicz, “Zielonooka” (Green-Eyed Woman) (around 1973, drawing on paper) - drawing, one of the show’s three media alongside painting and printmaking.
• Jarosław Olejnicki, “Przemoc” (Violence) (around 1976, oil on canvas) - a title that stands apart from the landscapes and street views on this list.
• Ryszard Grzyb, “Podskok / Uśmiech Picassy” (Hop / Picasso’s Smile) (around 1983, gouache on paper) - by a member of Gruppa, and the most recent of the named works.

The rest you discover in the room, which suits the premise: the hanging follows runs of colour and motif rather than dates or movements. The gallery’s own film shows the scale and the hang:

The gallery’s photographic documentation of the exhibition is on its Flickr album .

Context

Marek Sapetto (1939-2019), whose 1971 painting gave the show its title, was a painter and printmaker of Poland’s New Figuration circle; he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1971 and was made a professor of fine arts in 1990. A title that reads like a studio note rather than a manifesto sets the tone for the whole exhibition.

Labirynt has been collecting since the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, and its holdings count among Poland’s more significant collections of neo-avant-garde art: the Lublin-based Zamek Group with Jan Ziemski, action and performance art, photo-medialism, critical art. This show turns to the less documented side of that collection - painting, drawing and printmaking, the part that spent decades in storage.

The last large presentation of the holdings was “Zakręty awangardy” in 2010. 16 years on, the gallery returns to the storerooms with a different question: not what is in the collection, but why it was assembled and what stories an institution can build from it today.

Tickets and time

Admission is free, with no ticket and no booking. There is no separate ticket for this exhibition because Labirynt does not sell exhibition tickets at all, so the usual questions about free days and city tourist cards simply do not arise. The galleries open Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00-19:00 (noon to 7 PM), and close on Monday.

Allow 45 minutes to an hour. At this density a longer visit tires you out, and the show is built for unhurried walking rather than reading. Groups can request a curator-led tour through the form on the exhibition page .

English on site: no. The gallery publishes an English version of this exhibition page with the description, dates and full list of artists, so read it on your phone before you go in. It does not state that wall texts or captions in the rooms are in English, and announces no English-language tours or audio guide. The opening programme was in Polish with Ukrainian and Polish Sign Language interpretation. Come for the painting rather than for the reading, and this is a show that survives that treatment better than most.

Who it is for: anyone who likes to look at painting rather than decode it, and anyone who knows post-war Polish art well enough to enjoy spotting the names. Skip it if you want a narrative exhibition with captions that lead you by the hand - deliberately, there are none.

Quiet hours run every Wednesday from 15:00 to 19:00, when all works emitting loud sound or flashing light are switched off. The bookshop lends noise-cancelling ear defenders and a wheelchair free of charge, assistance dogs are welcome, and the gallery car park is free with a marked accessible bay. The Labirynt Cellar is not step-free, but this exhibition does not use it. For help getting from the bus stop to the door, call +48 81 466 59 20 ext. 23 in advance. A Polish Sign Language description of the show is on the gallery’s channel .

Getting there: bus lines 2, 8, 13, 15, 55 and 303, stops Galeria Labirynt 01, 02 and 04 or Głowackiego 01 and 02. The nearest city bike station is no. 6921 on Poniatowskiego street. The gallery sits in the Wieniawa district, roughly two kilometres west of Lublin’s Old Town, about 25 minutes on foot.

What the press says

Radio Lublin (20 September 2026, the “Do-patrzenia” podcast series, broadcast in the “Nie tylko rozrywkowa niedziela radiowa” programme): curator Paweł Korbus takes listeners round the exhibition; the recording is on the station’s podcast site - Radio Lublin “Do-patrzenia” recording (Polish-language audio).

SZUM (17 September 2026, editorial team, “Do zobaczenia” section): a short piece built on the gallery’s text and the curator’s words, with over a dozen installation photographs whose captions name individual works - SZUM feature (Polish-language source).

Radio Lublin (24 July 2026, KovA / ed. WM): an opening-day preview summarising the curatorial premise and naming Dwurnik, Łazorek, Styka and Fałat as the draws for local audiences - Radio Lublin preview (Polish-language source).

Narodowcy.pl (July 2026, unsigned): a second preview, in practice a reprint of the gallery’s press material, with no observation from the galleries themselves - Narodowcy.pl preview (Polish-language source).

No review has been published as of 23 September 2026; all four items are previews or presentations built on the gallery’s text or the curator’s own words. Curator Paweł Korbus writes in the gallery’s English text : “The exhibition is ‘analogue’, pleasant and relaxing.”

Updates

• 23 September 2026 - dates, hours and admission checked against the gallery’s page: unchanged, and the exhibition closes on Sunday 27 September 2026. The gallery’s events calendar announces no closing event or other event for this show in its final week. Two new press items (SZUM, Radio Lublin) and the works named in SZUM’s photo captions added. The quotation now uses the gallery’s own English text, which our previous check had missed.
• 14 September 2026 - dates, hours and admission checked against the gallery’s own pages: unchanged (24 July 2026 - 27 September 2026, Tue-Sun 12:00-19:00, free admission). Context, visiting practicalities, accessibility, the gallery’s film and press coverage added. All accompanying events (opening, curator’s tour, film screenings, Polish Sign Language tour) have already taken place.

See also

• Labirynt Gallery - the institution’s profile: its history since 1956, the neo-avant-garde collection, hours, quiet hours and how to get there.
• Post-Competition Exhibition of the Prof. Józef Mroszczak International Typography Triennial - Lublin’s other show about form and colour rather than subject matter, at Dom Słów until 30 September 2026.
• U with Two Dots - if you want a narrative exhibition after Labirynt: Katarzyna Minasowicz on displacement and post-war Wrocław.

Tickets, opening hours and current information are available on the Labirynt Gallery’s website .

Museum profile: Labirynt Gallery .