https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/Temporary Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw - muzea.waw.plHugo 0.147.6enTue, 28 Jul 2026 12:58:08 +0000© 2026 muzea.waw.pl - Every museum in Warsawhttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/rzezba-po-stabilnosci/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:53:29 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/rzezba-po-stabilnosci/A large survey of contemporary sculpture at MSN, with works by more than thirty artists from Poland and abroad. The starting point is the loss of formal stability - treated not as a warning of catastrophe, but as a source of creative tension. The objects extend past the galleries into corridors, the stairwell and the building’s shared spaces. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: The exhibition presents contemporary sculptural practices that take the loss of formal stability as their starting point, treating it not as a metaphor for crisis or a harbinger of catastrophe, but as a source of creative tension. What was once considered the goal of sculptural activity-durability, closure, and the perfection of the final result-today seems insufficient. In a world losing its footing, sculpture does not pretend to be a foundation. Form does not disappear; instead, it becomes a temporary arrangement of processes, tensions, and relationships.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/jestes-w-sercu-zmian-surrealizm-i-antyfaszyzm/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:51:59 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/jestes-w-sercu-zmian-surrealizm-i-antyfaszyzm/This show presents Surrealism as an international movement deeply involved in politics and society. It sets out to revise the common belief that Surrealism was mainly a painting style for dreams, fantasy and magic, and traces how Surrealists organized against fascism, colonialism and imperialism. It is an expanded version of an exhibition first shown at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, and runs until 10 January 2027. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition:museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/julie-mehretu-kairos-wariacje-duchologiczne/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:50:18 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/julie-mehretu-kairos-wariacje-duchologiczne/A survey of Julie Mehretu, an American artist born in Ethiopia in 1970 and one of the most important painters working today. The Museum of Modern Art gathers work spanning more than two decades, from analytical diagrams of the late 1990s to recent large-format canvases. On view from 20 March to 30 August 2026. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: Kairos / Spiritological Variations is an exhibition of works by Julie Mehretu, an American artist of Polish descent, born in Ethiopia in 1970. The exhibition title combines the ancient Greek concept of kairos - a critical turning point - with Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, in which the present is haunted by specters of an unresolved past.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/warszawa-w-budowie-suwerenna-i-najedzona/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:43:23 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/warszawa-w-budowie-suwerenna-i-najedzona/This year’s Warsaw Under Construction festival at the Museum of Modern Art takes on food sovereignty: where the city gets its food, and what would happen if it started growing more of it closer to home. It is an exhibition about farming inside the city, about the old belt of villages and orchards around Warsaw, and about how a question about food turns into a question about the whole city.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/patryk-rozycki-transformacja/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:41:33 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/patryk-rozycki-transformacja/A series of paintings in which Patryk Różycki returns to his own childhood and adolescence in the Polish countryside of the 1990s. Each canvas records one specific memory - his own, his family’s, his friends’ - and what came with poverty and exclusion after the transformation. The painting is plain, narrative, unadorned. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: The series of paintings addresses Różycki’s childhood and adolescence in the countryside, amidst economic and social exclusion related to the transformation of the 1990s, and the shame associated with it. Each work records a personal memory of a specific moment from the artist’s life, as well as that of his family and friends.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/edward-dwurnik-duma-i-wstyd/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:39:24 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/edward-dwurnik-duma-i-wstyd/A retrospective of Edward Dwurnik’s painting focused on the 1970s and 1980s, built around two of his main series: Sportsmen and Workers. The museum reads these paintings as a record of social advancement in Poland and the emotions that came with it - pride and shame. A separate intervention by Patryk Różycki runs alongside it. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: The exhibition focuses on the artist’s work from the 1970s and 1980s - presenting two of his main painting series, titled Sportsmen and Workers. The exhibition’s starting point was the desire to reconstruct Dwurnik’s original artistic stance, which was formed at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/najpiekniejsze-polskie-ksiazki-2025/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:38:19 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/najpiekniejsze-polskie-ksiazki-2025/The show gathers books awarded and honored in the 66th edition of the Polish Association of Book Publishers’ competition, which has run since 1957. It is about book design rather than book content: typography, paper, binding and the layout of the page. What you see is the publishing and printing work a jury judged the best in the country. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: The exhibition The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025 presents publications awarded and honored in the 66th edition of the Polish Association of Book Publishers’ competition, organized since 1957.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/drogi-czarnych-wkraczaja-w-bialy-lad/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:33:29 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/drogi-czarnych-wkraczaja-w-bialy-lad/An exhibition about how the Polish People’s Republic encountered Sub-Saharan Africa: through politics, art and ethnography. The title reverses that of a 1948 painting by Marian Bogusz. It gathers work by artists from Poland and Nigeria, along with graduates of Polish art academies from Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya - a set of connections pushed to the margins of memory once the political system changed. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition:museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/piniak-przemyslaw-poszlo-w-piety/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:02:13 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/piniak-przemyslaw-poszlo-w-piety/The first institutional exhibition of Przemyslaw Piniak, an intermedia artist who died prematurely. MSN shows his sketches, objects and paintings - including works on furniture fronts - not as a closed retrospective, but as a way into his exaggerated world, where shame and the fear of being judged are always present. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: Piniak Przemysław’s solo exhibition, featuring the prematurely deceased intermedial artist, is the first institutional attempt to take a broader look at his work. The exhibition’s creators follow the mythology he developed and his characteristic aesthetic of excess. The sketches, objects, paintings on canvas, and furniture fronts presented are not intended to create a complete retrospective. The exhibition title is the phrase ‘poszło w pięty,’ often used by the artist, which describes both Piniak’s way of functioning within the art world and the internalized feeling of shame and conviction of inevitable negative evaluation present in his work.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/minh-lan-tran-rdzen/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:00:11 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/msn/exhibitions/minh-lan-tran-rdzen/Not a conventional exhibition but a single monumental work: a nineteen-meter scroll of natural latex hanging in the museum’s staircase. Minh Lan Tran treats it as a translucent membrane - incised, scorched and coated with shellac - with light from the skylight passing through its center. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej on the exhibition: Minh Lan Tran’s monumental work (born 1997, Hong Kong), created for the Museum’s staircase, expands the language of abstract painting, entering into direct dialogue with architecture. The work unfolds vertically like a scroll, constructed from a single, nineteen-meter sheet of natural latex. Suspended in space, the installation acts as a translucent membrane - susceptible to light, gravity, and movement - through which the artist reflects on the boundary between life and death, materiality and energy.museums