Current Exhibitions
SOLO SHOWS
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Stąd
Centrum Kultury Raszyn | Raszyn, Poland
June 14 - July 31, 2025
Magdalena Abakanowicz was born on June 20 1930 in Falenty, near Raszyn. This June, for several weeks, the Raszyn Austeria will transform into a gallery of modern art. This year, we will celebrate the great artist’s birthday with an exhibition of her sculptures in the newly renovated interiors of the Austeria. Residents and tourists alike will have the opportunity to personally engage with selected works from the collection of the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, which have been exhibited all over the world.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Human Nature, Triptych in Brabant
HET Noordbrabants Museum | 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
April 18 - August 24, 2025
This three-venue exhibition will take place in the city of the only extant Abakanowicz’s site-specific woven installation, Bois le Duc (1971). At the HET Noordbrabants Museum, the exhibition Human Nature, with a focus on post-humanism, will be the first to place the artist’s work in dialogue with other major contemporary artists. Upcoming symposium to be announced in conjunction with this exhibition.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Everything is Made of Fiber
Textiel Museum | Tilburg, The Netherlands
April 18 - August 24, 2025
Next spring, Brabant will tell the full story of this godmother of installation art. From 18 April to 24 August 2025, her monumental creations – including the largest piece she ever made – will be on display at TextielMuseum Tilburg, Het Noordbrabants Museum and, continuously, at Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant.
Magdalena Abakanowicz w Ogrodach i Komnatach
Royal Gardens of Wawel Castle – Senator’s Hall | Cracow, Poland
April 25 - September 28, 2025 / October 26, 2025 - March 29, 2026
The exhibition will feature the famous Abakans in the Royal Gardens and then in the Senators' Hall, where they will be juxtaposed with valuable tapestries from the era of Sigismund Augustus, creating an interesting dialogue between modern art and the Renaissance heritage.
GROUP SHOWS
Przestrzenie / Spaces
Zachęta — Narodowa Galeria Sztuki | Warsaw, Poland
June 26 - Setember 29, 2025
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to immerse in a phenomenon that has permanently changed the way we think about art and its presence in space. By showing works by classics of Polish contemporary art — such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Wojciech Fangor, Henryk Stażewski and Maria Pinińska-Bereś — the exhibition introduces the phenomenon of environment art, one of the most important and innovative trends of the second half of the 20th century.
What does art that engages different senses and allows you to literally enter the work look like? Zachęta presents unique realizations of classics of Polish contemporary art that have changed the way we think about space, the viewer and the exhibition. Reconstructions of historical works and rich archival materials allow us to discover pioneering artistic practices that inspire to this day.
As part of the exhibition, you can see five reconstructions of environment realizations - three of them are presented for the first time since their creation. These are works that differ in approach - from painterly and conceptual, through sculptural, to attempts at multi-sensory impact on the viewer. All of them are united by the criterion of originality and experiment.
The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler
Museum of Arts and Design | New York
May 29, 2025 - April 19, 2026
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) invites audiences into the glamorous, witty, and wonderful universe of celebrated ceramicist and designer Jonathan Adler. In his first curatorial role, Adler presents more than 60 works from the Museum’s permanent collection, alongside his own iconic designs. The exhibition brings Adler’s singular design vision to MAD’s collection, spotlighting the artists, materials, techniques, and ideas that have inspired his aesthetic.
Organized into thematic vignettes, the exhibition offers a tour through Adler’s fascinations: Authentica celebrates the sleek forms of mid-century modern ceramics; Optimistica embraces exuberance in all its forms; Funkiana and Kottler-ia explore craft’s capacity for satire and subversion; Erotica turns up the heat with sensual works in ceramic, fiber, and glass; and Americalia, Metallica, and Animalia round out the exhibition with patriotic pastiche, glimmering metalwork, and Adler’s Mother Nature-inspired menagerie.
Adler has built an international reputation for his innovative approach to design, which deftly combines humor, impeccable style, and skilled craftsmanship. The exhibition marks a return to the time and place it all began—in 1993 he sold his first pots in the Museum’s store (then known as the American Craft Museum). The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler brings his creative journey full circle.
The latest in MAD’s collection-based exhibition series, The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler will be extended through a series of related public programs featuring the designer at the Museum. Additionally, The Store at MAD will stock a selection of iconic Jonathan Adler products.
Miasto zwierząt
Galeria Krzysztofory | Cracow
May 30 - October 26, 2025
The exhibition Misto zwierząt [City of Animals] raises provocative questions: Can a modern city exist without its animal inhabitants? Who does Kraków listen to? Only those who speak with a human voice?
The exhibition presents not only what has been, but also what might come. What will Kraków of the future look like? Will there be room for wild animals? Will increasingly urbanized spaces allow for coexistence? Or perhaps in the future, we will be the guests in a city ruled by animals?
Uncanny
National Museum of Women in Arts | Washington, DC
February 28 - August 10, 2025
Ghostly or fantastical figures, disquieting places, and enigmatic images subvert patriarchal traditions in Uncanny. Organized around themes of surreal imaginings, unsafe spaces, and the uncanny valley, Uncanny comprises painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and video art. The exhibition centers on recent acquisitions and rarely seen works from NMWA’s collection, complemented by key loans.
Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft
Sammlung der Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945–2000
Neue Nationalgalerie | Berlin, Germany
November 18, 2023-September 28, 2025
The art of the second half of the twentieth century is marked by an enormous diversity of materials, mediums, and methods. At the same time, hardly another era was so characterized by division, rupture, and transformation as the period after the Second World War. In light of this, the Neue Nationalgalerie has chosen the title Extreme Tension for the upcoming presentation of its postwar collection. Holocaust and war, upheaval and emancipation, Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall all led not only to tensions within society, but also to a fundamental realignment in visual art. The Neue Nationalgalerie will take as its point of departure the radical performance Zerreißprobe (Stress Test, 1970) by Günter Brus, who was a co-founder of the Vienna Actionism and used this performance to push his own body to the limit. The exhibition will address central artistic and social themes of the twentieth century in 14 sections, including realism and abstraction, politics and society, the everyday and Pop, feminism, identity, and nature and ecology.