Museum open at 12:00pm
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Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
An Evening with Malga Kubiak i Barbara Hammer
FILM PROGRAM ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION THE WOMAN QUESTION 1550–2025
10.04.2026 20:00
We invite you to screenings of films by Malga Kubiak and Barbara Hammer, whose work speaks with a voice that is both personal and deeply collective. Their films address unresolved issues of our time: the visibility of queer people and female desire, questions of race and belonging, as well as gender conditioning, the trauma of war, and systemic violence.
The screening will be preceded by a conversation with Malga Kubiak, moderated by Dr. Krystyna Mazur.
The event will be held in English.
The event will be held in English.
Screening for adults only (18+) – the films contain numerous scenes of nudity.
Malga Kubiak, Ego, 1985, 12 min. Courtesy of Filmform
Who has the right to speak of desire—and in what language?
Two artists, each in her own way a provocateur and a visionary, have for decades been offering an answer that no one wants to hear: that language is the body.
Malga Kubiak and Barbara Hammer—from opposite sides of the Atlantic, working within different visual traditions—have arrived at a similar place: where the camera ceases to record and begins to touch.
Malga Kubiak’s films (Ego, Super Ego, Flasher) are a three-part treatise on masturbation, guilt, and rebellion—realized with the directness and logic of a dream. The graphic act transforms into an indictment. Kubiak offers no apologies and makes no excuses.
Hammer approaches the body from a different angle—through extreme attention to detail, found footage, and electronic noise. Her films (Sync Touch, Blue Film: No. 6, X, No No Nooky T.V.) span a spectrum from physical intimacy to technology-mediated sensuality—with a detour through appropriated and ironically reworked pornography.
Hammer turns existing images of the female body against voyeuristic conventions, with the care of someone who knows that reclaiming one’s own gaze is a lifelong task.
