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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Meeting
100th anniversary of Alina Szapocznikow’s birth. A meeting with Agata Jakubowska and Olga Stanisławska
Guests
Agata Jakubowska, Olga Stanisławska, Robert Jarosz
Location
Auditorium
Language of the meeting
Polish
Admission
Free admission thanks to a partnership with Audi
On May 16, 2026, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alina Szapocznikow’s birth.
Together with Agata Jakubowska and Olga Stanisławska, we will view and discuss the premiere exhibition of Alina Szapocznikow’s photographs from Ryszard Stanisławski’s archive, which portray the artist as a woman and a person and shed light on her relationship with Ryszard Stanisławski. In the second part of the meeting, we will examine the history of the reception of Alina Szapocznikow’s work and reflect together on the challenges facing the visual arts community in light of the artist’s rich legacy.
The guests of honor at the event will be: Alexandre Valsamou-Stanislawski, the only grandson of Alina Szapocznikow (and Ryszard Stanisławski); his wife, Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski; and their son, Hermès Valsamou-Stanislawski, the great-grandson of Alina Szapocznikow.
Meanwhile, in the MSN Reading Room, visitors will be able to view the mini-exhibition “Alina Szapocznikow in Photographs of Tadeusz Rolke from 1957–1958.”
Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) is one of the most important post-war Polish artists and one of the most original sculptors of the 20th century. She studied at the Academy of Arts and Industry in Prague under Josef Wagner and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She developed and challenged the concept of sculpture by introducing new materials and achieving remarkably original results. In 1963, she moved to Paris. She created a unique artistic language through which she confronted both the trauma of the Holocaust and the decay of her own body. She was one of the leading European pioneers of women’s art, and her work gained international recognition and found its way into the world’s most important art collections, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MoMA in New York, and Tate Modern in London.