Marcin Dudek presents Flipery, a new series of small-scale oil portraits on view at Café Cobra during Kraków Art Week 2025. The works depict former regulars of the bar—figures whose personal narratives have become embedded in its atmosphere over time.
Café Cobra is squeezed in a gap between blocks of flats at 8B Beloruska Street; there, it has served successive generations of Krakow's demi-world since the late 1980s. Marcin Dudek, as a teenager, belonged to this milieu, spending long foggy nights at Cobra. At that time, he was learning to paint, in between two adventurous escapades, in the secrecy of his small room. Sometimes, he dreamed of becoming an artist, and imagined that his paintings would one day hang in Café Cobra.
FLIPERY opens on Saturday 26 April from 20:00.
Exhibition opens on Sunday 27.04 from 11:00 - 18:00.
Curated by Krzysztof Dudek
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