The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Workshops for adults
cancelled: Forms are never innocent. Harmonies
Tickets (workshop + admission to the exhibition)
Regular: 40 PLN
Reduced: 30 PLN
Location
Meet at the designated spot by the main staircase (across from the Auditorium).
Age group
Workshops for adults and teens 16+
Language
Polish
A view of the exhibition “Maria Jarema: Cracked Modernism” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
The photo features a costume design by the artist. / Photo by Magda Pawluczuk
Important notice: The event has been canceled. Our box office will contact everyone who purchased tickets to issue refunds. We apologize for the inconvenience!”
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites you to a series of movement classes accompanying the exhibition “Maria Jarema: Cracked Modernism.”
Classes in the series:
May 28: Forms Are Never Innocent. Rhythms
June 11: Forms Are Never Innocent. Compositions
June 18: Forms Are Never Innocent. Harmonies
June 11: Forms Are Never Innocent. Compositions
June 18: Forms Are Never Innocent. Harmonies
During our sessions, we’ll treat movement as a critical tool and a great way to explore reality. We’ll focus on mindfulness, building relationships, and the forms that emerge during the process itself. Our starting point will be the choreographies of everyday life. We’ll examine the rhythms that organize us and the hierarchies we fall into. We’ll explore the networks that allow some to move freely while effectively blocking others. We’ll recognize the divisions that order the world while simultaneously excluding certain people from it.
We will be particularly interested in the tension between rhythm as a tool of control and rhythm as a natural pulsation—irregular, open, and one that completely eludes repetition.
What will we be doing?
We will treat choreography as a configuration of relationships between various systems: biological, social, political, and affective. Our main inspiration comes from the artistic practice of Maria Jarema. We will explore forms that are constantly transforming—non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and based on the coexistence of contradictory logics. We will focus on “dispositions,” that is, the immense potential inherent in our bodies and in a given situation.
We will move on to specific movement exercises. We will practice working with different rhythms, attempt to enter predefined structures, and boldly step out of them. We’ll build and deliberately disrupt relationships within the group, and we’ll also respond to changing spatial arrangements and the presence of others. Instead of chasing perfect synchronization, we’ll focus on listening attentively—to our own bodies, our surroundings, and the group’s dynamics.
Our classes will become a safe space for experimentation. Together, we will explore compositions, shifts, tensions, and moments in which different orders meet, clash, and jointly negotiate their place within the field of action.
We took the title of the series from Natalia Sielewicz’s text “A Machine That Deciphers Reality: The Relationality of Forms in Maria Jarema’s Postwar Work,” which we published in the exhibition catalog.
Biography of the presenter:
Izabela Niepokój – MSN educator. Graduate of the Art Studies program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Author of a series of choreographed walks titled “Walking Exercises,” carried out in public institutions. She is interested in everyday movement and the body in public space.
