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  • A surrealist oil painting depicting an anatomical, skinless figure sitting in an armchair with its legs stretched out, surrounded by abstract furniture in an empty, sterile room.
  • An abstract painting by Julie Mehretu
  • A colorful painting depicts a bustling city market scene. Foreground features vibrant fruit stands with oranges and apples. People interact warmly, surrounded by historic buildings. The artwork conveys a lively, communal atmosphere.
  • The painting depicts two dark-skinned figures with geometric tattoos or face paint, shown in unnatural poses against a solid violet-blue background. The figure on the left wears a coral-colored outfit, and the figure on the right wears a light pink dress with a white collar. Floating between and around them are symbols of Western consumer culture: a bottle of whiskey, a glass with ice, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a radio, and a small dog on a leash.
  • A close-up of lush greenery and wild strawberry leaves, with a small ladybug perched on a thin blade of grass in the center of the frame.
  • Two women are standing with their backs to the camera in front of a large glass window, admiring the view of the Palace of Culture and Science, a red construction crane, and Warsaw’s skyscrapers on a sunny day.
  • Oil painting: an older man and a boy are sitting at a table where the man is painting large blue letters that spell out the word “PODNIE” on a white piece of fabric. A pair of glasses and some paint lie nearby. The boy is watching him work.
  • An artistic, intimate shot depicting two young people wearing only black underwear. A blond-haired man is using a small brush to paint a red pattern on the face of a woman standing against a wall densely covered with sketches and drawings. The entire scene is bathed in the warm, orange light of a lamp standing on the left.
  • A still from the film showing three people having breakfast in a bright kitchen: a woman standing and holding a bowl of fruit, and two men sitting at the table—one reading a newspaper and the other looking to the side.
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26.06.2026–10.01.2027

IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES:
SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM

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Now in the museum

Exhibition

26.06.2026–10.01.2027

IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES:
SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM

Exhibition

26.06.2026–10.01.2027

WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND

Exhibition

31.07.2026–28.02.2027

EDWARD DWURNIK: PRIDE AND SHAME

Exhibition

31.07.2026–11.10.2026

PATRYK RÓŻYCKI: TRANSFORMATION

Exhibition

20.03.2026–30.08.2026

JULIE MEHRETU:
KAIROS/HAUNTOLOGICAL VARIATIONS

Exhibition

20.03.2026–30.08.2026

MINH LAN TRAN
SPINE

Exhibition

25.04.2026–23.08.2026

PINIAK PRZEMYSŁAW
HIT WHERE IT HURTS

Exhibition

16.07.2026–13.09.2026

The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025

FOR FAMILIES

21.08.2026

Sensory Workshops: Horses and Ponies (Ages 0–3)

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Books arranged on a metal rack

The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025

Exhibition of publications awarded and distinguished in the 66th PTWK Competition

Organised by the Polish Book Publishers Association since 1957, The Most Beautiful Polish Books competition distinguishes publications in which design, typography, editing, printing, binding and publishing concept form a coherent whole.
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A woman, seen from behind, wearing a shiny pink dress with fringe and carrying a distinctive red crab-shaped handbag, is taking a photo with her smartphone of a painting in an art gallery. The work, set in a gold frame, is a black-and-white, surreal ink drawing depicting a dynamic, bony figure riding a fantastical creature.

In the Very Bowels of Changes and Ways of the Black Spread Over the White Land

This exhibition In the Very Bowels of Changes. Surrealism and Antifascism presents Surrealism in a comprehensive historical context, so as to reveal the deeply political and social dimensions.
 
The exhibition Ways of the Black Spread Over the White Land addresses the impact that Polish relations with Blackness and sub-Saharan Africa had on art and visual culture in 1945–1989. 
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Magazyn MSN

Processing the Unbearable, Imagining the Radical

10.08.2026

Planet Piniak: The literary in the work of Piniak Przemysław

Piniak’s complete writings—not much more than a dozen short stories, one dramatic piece, several film scripts, audio shows, and “spoken” performance acts, uncollected notes, and recorded dreams—would make an average-sized volume, neither thin nor a tome. It is a non-existent volume, although perfectly imaginable.

13.08.2026

Bureau of Mask Registry

African Objects in Polish Domestic Spaces, 1960–1990

12.06.2026

The Ethical Choices of Surrealists

The one significant absence from the exhibition is Salvador Dalí. It was he who cemented in the collective imagination the image of surrealism as a dreamlike vision, a Freudian puzzle presented with almost photographic literalness. We see relatively little of this kind of surrealism in the exhibition “In the Very Bowels of Changes.” For the exhibition’s focus is not on style, nor even on an artistic movement in the strict sense. Rather, it is about a certain attitude.

11.06.2026
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Publishing house

We publish books on contemporary art and culture and exhibition catalogs. We are developing several publishing lines: mówi muzeum, kino muzeum, Muzeum w Budowie.

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FRIENDS OF MSN WARSAW

The Association of Friends of MSN Warsaw conducts activities on behalf of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

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