02/06/2026
whitegrid gallery is delighted to invite you to Roman Klonek’s solo exhibition, PULP INK PARADE. The exhibition opens on Friday, 5 June 2026, at 6 pm and presents new works and a selection of the artist’s earlier pieces.
Roman Klonek is one of the leading figures in contemporary woodcut art in Germany. For over 20 years, he has been developing his distinctive visual language through the medium of woodcut, demonstrating its relevance as a contemporary art form. Klonek is particularly renowned for the lost-cut technique, in which all colours are printed using a single printing plate. After each colour is applied, the plate is further processed and reprinted until the individual layers of colour combine to form the finished image.
Klonek’s works open up a world situated between grotesque humour, folklore, pop culture and Eastern European animation aesthetics. In vibrant colours, bizarre hybrid creatures combining human and animal forms populate dreamlike scenarios full of absurdity, excitement and narrative ambiguity. Influenced by the visual languages of Eastern European cartoons, comics and manga, the resulting compositions appear like stills from a film never before seen.
PULP INK PARADE invites you to follow these gripping visual narratives, to lose yourself in the details and to discover ever-new stories amid bizarre moments, hidden clues and atmospheric shifts.
Roman Klonek
Tales from the Nile, 2026
Woodcut, Edition of 8
70 × 82.8 cm