Wschód Gallery Opens One-Year Naples Residency in Historic Chiaia Cave Space

Key facts

• Wschód Gallery was founded in Warsaw in 2017 by Piotr Drewko and is also active in New York.
• The gallery launches a one-year exhibition residency in Naples at Vico del Vasto a Chiaia 28, near Piazza Amedeo, in a historic cave space.
• The opening show "White over Blue, Red and Yellow" runs from 2 October to 7 November 2026.
• Eight international artists participate: Olga Balema, Joanne Burke, Antonia Brown, Adriano Costa, Kenji Ide, Hélène Janicot, Linda Lach and Michael E. Smith.
• The exhibition explores abstraction as a conscious, rigorous language extending beyond painting to objects and sculpture.
• The program includes projects with represented and invited artists, happenings, lectures and collaborations with Italian galleries.
• The Black Box moving-image initiative takes the form of a film series in Naples, developed in relation to the venue.
• The Naples project follows the ECHO gallery share in Cologne (2022, with Bureau, Hot Wheels Athens, LC Queisser and Stereo) and a biennial program at Wschód's New York Lower East Side space.