Current Exhibitions

SOLO SHOWS

Magdalena Abakanowicz. Prolog

Galeria Kordegarda | Warsaw, Poland
February 13 - March 30, 2025

Recalling the first solo exhibition of Magdalena Abakanowicz. The same spaces of the Warsaw Kordegarda as sixty-five years ago, the same works. After the festival of presentations of the artist's most famous and revolutionary achievements in important European international institutions related to contemporary art, including the famous Tate Modern in London, we go back to the beginning of her creative path - her debut in 1960. Thanks to this, we can look at the first consciously constructed artistic show through the prism of ideas developed by Abakanowicz in later realizations or in the light of her achievements, which changed the perspective on the materiality of fabric, on working with space and which shaped a new language of forms.

GROUP SHOWS

Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World

Allen Memorial Art Museum | Oberlin, Ohio
July 5, 2023 - May 31, 2025

Drawn from the Allen’s permanent collection, this exhibition spotlights pivotal moments in figuration and abstraction in the 20th century. Spanning Europe, the U.S., Peru, Mexico, and China, this presentation contextualizes canonical figures in the history of modern art alongside those often overlooked.

The dark, brooding tone in some of these works stems from experiences of war, trauma, mental illness, racism, and sexism. Yet even the most fractured, disorienting compositions are punctuated with glimpses of light and resilience. The simultaneity of hope and despair, light and dark, advances and setbacks, is as central to this selection of works as it is to the sociopolitical forces that shaped modernity.

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.