Harmonoise26042025: Sainer’s Monumental Mosaic for Skopje, North Macedonia
The city of Skopje gains a new cultural landmark through Sainer’s Harmonoise26042025 mosaic, a monumental work by Polish artist Przemyslaw Blejzyk, known internationally as Sainer.
Installed on the façade of the Planetarium at the Youth Cultural Centre (MKC), the work transforms the building into a site of visual resonance, cultural memory, and contemporary artistic inquiry. Composed of 104,096 individual tiles, the mosaic brings together painting, digital logic, and traditional craftsmanship within the public space of the city.
Detail of Sainer Harmonoise26042025 mosaic tiles at MKC Skopje
Sainer Harmonoise26042025 Mosaic in Architecture and Place
The Planetarium occupies a significant position within Skopje’s modernist urban fabric. Sainer’s intervention responds directly to the building’s scale, geometry, and surface rhythm. Rather than treating the façade as a neutral support, the mosaic operates in dialogue with architectural divisions and light conditions.
Throughout the day, the work shifts in tone and intensity, allowing the city itself to activate the composition. This relationship anchors the artwork firmly within its environment, reinforcing the Planetarium as both a scientific and cultural point of reference.
Detail of Sainer Harmonoise26042025 mosaic tiles at MKC Skopje
Pixelisation in Sainer’s Harmonoise26042025 Mosaic
At the core of Harmonoise26042025 lies Sainer’s sustained exploration of pixelisation. The image is constructed through modular repetition, where each tile functions as a fundamental unit of visual information.
From close proximity, the viewer encounters texture, materiality, and the trace of manual labour. From a distance, these elements coalesce into a cohesive pictorial field. The mosaic reads as a visual score, structured through rhythm and scale, where digital logic and analogue execution meet with precision.
Sainer Harmonoise26042025 mosaic on the Planetarium façade in Skopje
This approach reflects a broader shift in Sainer’s practice toward distilled form and structural clarity. Pixelisation becomes a method of analysis, allowing the artist to examine how images are built, perceived, and sustained across media.
Curatorial Vision Behind the Harmonoise26042025 Mosaic
The project was curated by Cezary Hunkiewicz of BD Gallery, Warsaw, who has closely followed the evolution of Sainer’s artistic language. Under his curatorial direction, the Skopje mosaic emerges as a continuation of the artist’s recent investigations into simplified structures and essential visual components.
The work aligns with Skopje’s post-war modernist heritage, a period shaped in part by Polish architects following the 1963 earthquake, creating an understated yet meaningful historical dialogue.
Sainer Harmonoise26042025 mosaic on the Planetarium façade in Skopje
Craft, Collaboration, and Cultural Exchange
Harmonoise26042025 was realised in collaboration with Trufle Mozaiki, whose expertise translated the conceptual framework into a durable, architectural-scale mosaic.
The project was co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025, with support from the Polish Embassy in North Macedonia and numerous artistic collaborators.
Sainer Harmonoise26042025 mosaic tiles at MKC Skopje. Image copyright Sainer