Gregor Różański
Memory Pump

Artist lecture and film screenings
Friday, May 9, 2025, 6pm-8pm
Galeria Wschód, 136 Orchard St

The video works will be on view in the Black Box New York until May 17. 

DJ sets
Beverly’s, 297 Grand St (DJ sets)
9pm-late

Memories transform each time we recall them; they are merely
constructs of our emotions, and your heart is just a pump for them.

Galeria Wschód New York is pleased to present Memory Pump, a multifaceted event composed of the artist lecture, film screenings, and experimental DJ-sets in Manhattan running across 136 Orchard Street and Beverly’s Club on May 9, 2025. The event is part of the gallery public programming and launches in the context of the current exhibition Memory entrepôt including new works by Keta Gavasheli developed in response to the sound practice of Polish avant-garde artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor.

Designed by Warsaw-based visual and sound artist Gregor Różański (b. 1988) in collaboration with Galeria Wschód, the event brings forward a history of the Polish club scene and its current relevance to a wider social, political and artistic landscape. The early club scene of the Polish cities and villages involved communities performing a musical ‘theatre of nostalgia’ and despite occurring in a rather harsh economical setting, or maybe exactly because of it, the ‘polska pompa’ (‘Polish pump’ – a vernacular pumping techno subgenre) conditioned a nostalgic fantasy world for generations to follow.

List of screened works:
Huta 2000 (2016) 20:00 min
Manieczki Dance Mission (2017) 23:00 min
All-Seeing Eye on XTC (2024) 8:50 min
Raver of Grand East (2024) gloves edition

Gregor Rozanski (b. 1988, Wrocław, Poland) is a multidisciplinary and conceptual artist living and working in Warsaw. He studied Fine Arts and Sculpture at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. His artistic practice spans installation, sound art, sculpture, video, and research-based projects, often addressing contemporary socio-political themes through the lens of club culture, hauntology, and urban transformation. His works have been exhibited internationally at Tate Modern London, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Zacheta National Gallery Warsaw, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, among others. Currently, his research focuses on subjects like premodern underground ideas, post-work society, urban decay and timeless mythologies. His practice as a noise musician and rave DJ further informs his artistic interest in sound evoking altered states and cultural memory.