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MSN Warsaw collects works of contemporary art, executed in a diverse range of media: paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations, films, audio and performative works. In the museum’s storerooms and workshops, artworks undergo study, conservation and digitization. They are carefully catalogued and divided into specific collections.  

MSN Warsaw’s historic collections are works gathered by avant-garde art institutions in the 20th century which joined the museum’s resources as a fixed whole. The museum maintains the collections from the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw and the Exchange Gallery in Łódź.

Collection 1

Tala Madani
Becoming Brilliant II2013
Gustav Metzger
Eichmann and the Angel (Warsaw version)2005/2011
Cezary Bodzianowski
Prognosis2012
Aleksandra Waliszewska
Shortcut2012–2013
Nikita Kadan
Drawing from the Pogrom series2016–2017
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About Collection 1

Collection 1, numbering over 2,000 objects, is an emblematic collection for MSN Warsaw’s institutional identity. Assembly of the collection began immediately after the museum was founded in 2005 and has been pursued without interruption by the MSN Warsaw team under the leadership of director Joanna Mytkowska.

Artworks are acquired for the collection with funds provided to the museum by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Culture Office of the City of Warsaw. 

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Exchange Gallery Collection

The Exchange Gallery Collection was donated to MSN Warsaw by Józef Robakowski in 2017.

This unique collection contains over 200 works gathered by the Exchange Gallery, an independent art space founded in 1978 by Małgorzata Potocka and Józef Robakowski in a private apartment at ul. Piłsudskiego 7 in Łódź. The Exchange Gallery, which existed until 2022, was an art forum, an event venue, and also an archive. 

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Foksal Gallery Collection

The Foksal Gallery was founded in Warsaw in 1966 at the initiative of art critics Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska and Mariusz Tchorek, and artists Henryk Stażewski, Roman Owidzki, Edward Krasiński and Zbigniew Gostomski. Alongside the Špála Gallery in Prague, the Foksal Gallery was one of the few avant-garde galleries in the communist bloc.

The gallery’s program called for a departure from the typical presentation of works previously executed in the studio, in favor of processual works. Installations and happenings were created at the Foksal Gallery by such outstanding artists as Tadeusz Kantor, Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager and Anselm Kiefer. The Foksal Gallery Collection, which has been part of the MSN Warsaw collection since 2017, mainly comprises artefacts generated by the artists while working on projects on-site.

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