Current Exhibitions

GROUP SHOWS

Chcemy całego życia. Feminizmy w sztuce polskiej

Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie | Sopot, Poland
October 19, 2024 - February 2, 2025

The largest presentation of Polish feminist art from the last five decades.

On three floors of the State Art Gallery, the works by nearly hundred artists are presented. The exhibition includes works representing various forms of expression, from painting and sculpture to installations, performance and multimedia art.

The exhibition, prepared by the SemFem curatorial collective, aims not only to present the work of feminist artists, but also to provide a deeper understanding of the role that feminism plays in shaping contemporary Polish art. This event creates a unique opportunity to reflect on the influence of feminist movements on art, culture and society in Poland.

Klasycy. Polska sztuka współczesna z kolekcji Jolanty i Piotra Marców / Classics. Polish contemporary art from Jolanta and Piotr Marzec Collection

Muzeum Częstochowy | Częstochowa, Poland
October 19, 2024 – January 12, 2025

The exhibition presents the work of contemporary Polish artists. As part of the exhibition, we show nearly eighty exceptional works – paintings, graphics and sculptures – by thirty-seven outstanding artists, classics of Polish art after 1945. The image of art of this period was shaped by great individuals. They were open to experiments, practicing various fields of art, crossing the boundaries of traditional techniques and disciplines. Some of them followed global trends, changing their style, while others consistently and tirelessly worked within one convention, focusing on selected artistic problems. The exhibition shows this inspiring diversity of attitudes and focuses on the most important phenomena of Polish contemporary art. It has been divided into three sections: "Matter/structure/tissue", "Line/sign/shape" and "Metaphor/allusion/space".

The Plastic Body: Sculpture from Poland 1960-1989

Stravanger Art Museum | Stravanger, Norway
September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Plastic Body will show works by several Polish artists who challenged traditional conceptions of sculpture in the 1960s and ’70s. At a time when political and patriarchal structures limited the lives of people in Poland, many artists created very radical and political works. Using experimental techniques and new materials that were often sourced from everyday life, they broke away from conventional ideas about the human body. They explored the body as a plastic material, a place for resistance, transformation and freedom.

The exhibition brings together artists who in various ways expanded and renewed the concept of sculpture based on the human body as a motif and theme. The vulnerable, ephemeral, and fragmented body emerges in their works, but so also desire and sensuality. The use of new materials was partly motivated by economic limitations. Textiles, plant seeds, and new plastic materials such as polyester and resin were affordable alternatives to stone and bronze. At the same time, these materials opened up new possibilities for conveying personal experiences and artistic visions that were not only radical in their time but remain highly relevant today.

UNRAVEL

Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 14, 2024 - January 5, 2025

Second venue of the exhibition originated in Barbican Centre in London. Bringing together over 100 artworks by a diverse range of international practitioners to examine the ways in which artists have embraced textiles to explore the transformative and subversive potential of textiles to challenge power structures and reimagine the world. Spanning intimate hand-crafted works to large-scale sculptural installations, the exhibition presents radical works in their form and politics, revealing how textiles have been forces of resistance and repair.

Las - Schronienie ofiar. Kryjówka zbrodni
Forest - Shelter for Victims. Crime Hideout

Muzeum Drugiej Wojny Światowej | Gdańsk, Poland
August 30, 2024 - February 28, 2025

The subject of the exhibition is the history of World War II told from the perspective of forest complexes: their importance in the defensive war, a place of refuge for victims, a stronghold of partisan resistance, but also a place of crime. The Forest is an exhibition essay that interdisciplinaryly combines history with art and ecology. The forest is the original home, a natural habitat that supports human vitality, and because of the war - contaminated by crime. During the military conflict, he helped save some lives, but also keeps the secret of the victims' deaths.

The aim of the exhibition is to commemorate the victims on the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, which also took place in forest areas.

The leitmotif of the set design is the forest - a primeval home, contaminated by war. In addition to historical artifacts, the exhibition will include works of art: Wilhelm Sasnal, Mirosław Bałka, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Łukasz Surowiec.

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.

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.