Art Rotterdam 2026 | Art Fair

Open Doors Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Art Rotterdam 2026, presenting a solo booth of new unique work from Berlin based artist duo Wysocka / Pogo.

Known for their experimental and intuitive approach to image-making, Wysocka / Pogo work with found photography, archival material, and print-based processes to create singular works that sit between photography, painting, and object. Their practice embraces chance, error, and material transformation, stripping images of their original context and allowing new meanings to emerge through process-led exploration.

For Art Rotterdam, Wysocka / Pogo will present a new body of work created specifically for the fair. Pushing the limitations of their custom risograph printing process and archival photographic material.

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Artefacts, the brand new body of work from Berlin based artist duo Wysocka / Pogo debuting at Art Rotterdam, turns to the idea of the artefact itself: not as a stable object recovered from history, but as something far more unstable: a fragment, a trace, a distortion, a residue of human desire to know and to measure. Conventionally, an artifact is an object shaped by human hands, bearing the weight of cultural or historical meaning. Yet in photography, it is also the opposite: an unwanted mark, a glitch, a shift from clarity. Between these two definitions, the artists find their terrain.

Since 2016, their practice has been research-driven, working with obscure narratives and found imagery drawn from scientific journals, forgotten books, manuals, archival photographs, and other forms of ephemeral printed matter. These images once had a clear function: to transmit knowledge. Photography acted as witness and instructor, a medium presumed to hold truth, even when addressing the hidden or the unknown. In Artefacts, such images return as relics. Detached from their original contexts, they are no longer didactic but enigmatic. The human body remains fragmented. Trees, plants, stones, and caves seem to exist as parts of human-made models, measured and cartographed, yet belonging to an atlas whose logic is inward and private.

The works function as memorials to photography’s past certainties, to a time when an image could be trusted to stabilise the world. Yet they are equally monuments to fragility. The fragments resist seamless reconstruction. Measurement becomes poetic rather than definitive. Cartography dissolves into speculation.

Central to the practice is an insistence on singularity. There is something powerful in allowing each piece to exist only once, especially within a medium defined by technical reproducibility. This tension is amplified through a self-refined risograph technique, using a printer originally designed for speed and mass production, printing against its logic: layer by layer, with deliberate misregistrations and shifts, onto raw canvas. Distortions, smudges, pressure marks, hesitations in ink: these are not flaws to be corrected but events to be cultivated. The artefact becomes both subject and method.

Ultimately, Artefacts suggests that photography has always carried an archaeological quality. Every image is already a fragment of time. Wysocka / Pogo gather, displace, and rematerialize, producing an atlas without coordinates. A reminder that every attempt to understand the world leaves traces behind, and that these traces may tell us as much about ourselves as about the realities they once sought to describe.

Art Rotterdam remains one of the leading fairs in Europe for new and emerging art, with the UNSEEN section offering a focused context for innovative and boundary-pushing work. Open Doors Gallery is delighted to return to the fair with a dedicated solo presentation that reflects its ongoing commitment to supporting artists working at the edges of contemporary photography and beyond.