In 2008, at age 22, Redkie founded the Grupa Warszawa, with the intention of “creating a kiosk with vodka and culture”. After winning a call for bids, the company opened a café-bar in an inactive modernist ticket-office building of the suburban railway station Warszawa Powiśle, leased from the Polish State Railways. The bar has become one of the most popular venues in Warsaw. In 2013, Gazeta Wyborcza hailed the Warszawa Powiśle as one of the “10 Pubs That Changed Warsaw.” Following the opening of the Warszawa Powiśle, Grupa Warszawa's operations turned into a regular catering company. In 2009, Redkie was joined by Bartłomiej Kraciuk, and in 2012, by Hubert Karsz with whom the company opened a live music cocktail bar Syreni Śpiew , between 2010–2016, located in a renovated pavilion of the former communist-party-owned hotel restaurant, and from September 2019, at the complex Praga Koneser Center. The following initiatives of Redkie, Kraciuk, and Karsz have included: the patisserie Lody na Patyku, the cocktail bar Weles, the bistro Zorza, the restaurant Biała – Zjedz i wypij, the cafe Moderna, the restaurant Fokim, and the bar Ruszt. Between 2013–2015, it ran a seasonal culture pavilion Stacja Mercedes. Within the Grupa Warszawa, Redkie also runs the art foundation Fundacja Więcej Sztuki, and the convention center Szarotka.
Film production
As part of the Grupa Warszawa, Redkie and Kraciuk, together with producer Agnieszka Kurzydło founded the feature-film production studio Mental Disorder 4. The studio's credits include Baby Blues, In the Name of..., Kebab and Horoscope, The Red Spider, The Test, 16.03, Fugue, and Via Carpatia, as well as international co-productions, including The Red Captain.
Technological projects
After launching the online shopping tool Xerch in 2011, Redkie became a co-founder of the mobile game company Swapp, which opened in 2013. In 2016, Redkie launched Trust Holding AG, registered in Baar, Switzerland, to create a Blockchain-based trading platform Trust, for managing operations of gastronomic companies.
Awards and accolades
Redkie was included twice in Brief magazine's list of “50 Most Creative People in Business,” in 2013, and 2014. Together with the co-creators of the Grupa Warszawa, Redkie was awarded by the Design Alive magazine's readers prize for 2016, in the Strategist category. The Warszawa Powiśle was awarded with the title “The Opening of the Year,” by the TVN Warszawa, and the Nocne Marki award for “The Place of the Year 2009,” by Aktivist magazine. The Syreni Śpiew won the Warsaw Insider magazine award for 2012, as “The Best New Bar.” The Stacja Mercedes project was awarded in Golden Arrow, and Golden Clips competitions. The Weles cocktail bar won the BestCocktail Bar award in Warsaw Insider magazine's competition. At the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2013, the film In the Name Of produced by MD4, was awarded the Teddy Award as the best queer film. Baby Blues was awarded by a teenage jury with the Crystal Bear, the main prize of the Generation 14Plus section.
Publications
Redkie N., “Impact of Psychological Mechanisms on the Receipt of ICO, IEO and STO Offers by Investors,” in: Bankowość emocjonalna. Cyfrowa transformacja banków a oczekiwania klientów ; edited by Ewa Miklaszewska, Mateusz Folwarski; Wydawnictwo Poltext, 2018;
