Open Mapping Workshops

Trace, Record, Abstraction

22.08.2026 12:00–15:00

Age group and language

This event is open to everyone and recommended for ages 12 and up. Join us anytime!

Location

Auditorium

Admission

Free admission thanks to cooperation with Audi

A person in the gallery, standing with their back to the camera, gazing closely at a large-format painting full of intricate lines and colorful shapes.

In the mood for some creative rebellion? Come on July 11 between 12:00 and 15:00 to the Auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art for an open collage workshop accompanying the new exhibition “You Are at the Heart of Change. Surrealism and Anti-Fascism”!

The event is open to everyone—we welcome teens, adults, and children under the watchful eye of their parents. Join us at any time. Together, we’ll create collages, put together a giant zine, and play the surrealists’ favorite game!

Instead of learning rigid rules, we’ll use art to take action. The historical Surrealists strongly believed in the slogan “changer la vie”—which simply means “to change life.” They rejected boring rules and looked at the world from a completely new perspective. During our workshop, we’ll do exactly the same thing! We’ll explore the revolutionary side of surrealism, let our rebellious imaginations run wild, and create our own manifestos.

What will we be doing?

Together with artist Bożka Rydlewska, we’ll encourage you to create your own collage manifesto. In the Auditorium space, we’ve set up three main creative stations for you:

Your own manifesto: We’ll create collages about issues that are truly important to you. Ecology, social issues, politics—or perhaps pure, humorous fantasy? It’s all up to you!
A collective zine: We’ll compile our manifestos into one big zine, which we’ll put together and create as a group during the workshop.
A game of “The Exquisite Corpse”: We’ll try out the Surrealists’ most famous parlor game! Each person will draw their own element on a long sheet of paper, without seeing exactly what the person before them drew. In this way, from our collective drawings—right after we unroll the paper scroll—a mysterious figure will emerge: the true Spirit of the New Surrealist Revolution!

Hosts

Marta Baranowska — architect, sociologist, and creator of the Lokalny project. Coordinator of cultural and educational events. She is particularly active in the field of public space education and the promotion of contemporary Polish architecture. She collaborates with the National Center for Culture on a regular basis.

Agnieszka Zalotyńska – artist and archivist. Her interests, artistic practice, and design work center on the concept of the map. She is a two-time recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She is the author of “Maps of Maps”—a digital collection of maps in Polish public space. She combines visual practice with work on digital topographies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Marta and Agnieszka are the co-authors of the initiative “Non-Cartographic Maps” and the curators of the exhibitions “Non-Cartographic Maps” (2019) and “Maps in the Landscape” (2025, in collaboration with Jerzy Parfianowicz). IG: @mapy_niekartograficzne