Meeting

Polish book launch „Zofia Kulik: Works”

Guests

Zofia Kulik, Asia Zak Persons, Agnieszka Tarasiuk

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Auditorium

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Free admission thanks to cooperation with Audi

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites you to the Polish premiere of Zofia Kulik's monograph "Zofia Kulik: Works," published by Thames & Hudson and edited by Asia Zak Persons. This is Thames & Hudson's first monograph devoted to a contemporary Polish artist and a comprehensive study of Kulik's groundbreaking creative practice. The conversation with the artist and the book's editor will be led by Agnieszka Tarasiuk.

The book includes texts by ten leading curators and art historians: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Wilson, Angela Dimitrakaki, Glenn Adamson, Andy Rottenberg, Timothy Persons, Agata Jakubowska, Tomasz Załuski, Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, and David Crowley. The 296-page volume, structured around eight thematic chapters, includes over 300 reproductions showing the evolution and complexity of Kulik's work in the broader context of European art. The official premiere of the monograph took place during Paris Photo 2025 at the Grand Palais.

Zofia Kulik's photographs are a mental collage of the "self." Inspired by eroticism, feminism, and the political and social changes of post-war Poland, her extensive oeuvre is a radical critique not only of what it means to be an artist and a woman, but also of what it means to be human. This comprehensive publication, presenting her most important series—including The Splendor of Myself — traces the artist's rich and diverse creative path: from her early collaborative work with KwieKulik to the development of her independent artistic practice.

Zofia Kulik is a Polish conceptual artist, best known for her black-and-white photomontages, in which she engages in political criticism from a feminist perspective. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1971, Kulik formed the artistic duo KwieKulik with her then-partner, Przemysław Kwiek. Running the Studio of Activities, Documentation, and Dissemination (PDDiU) in their Warsaw apartment, they created avant-garde films, photographs, and objects, as well as performances, installations, and interventionist texts. After splitting in 1987, Kulik expressed a newly discovered need for her work to be present in museums and institutions, on an equal footing with traditional art. In the following years, she developed the black-and-white photomontages for which she is best known today, combining complex formal arrangements with often hundreds of images. Extremely labor-intensive, rich in detail, and often monumental in scale, these works reflect the artist's consistent interest in the dark areas of the human psyche.

Kulik's work has been presented at major international exhibitions, including documenta 12 (2007) and the 47th Venice Biennale (1997). The artist has also had solo exhibitions at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Badischer Kunstverein (2016), and Les Rencontres d’Arles (2023). Her work is included in major public collections such as Tate Modern, MoMA in New York, and Centre Pompidou, as well as numerous private collections.

Authors of the publication:

Timothy Persons, Anda Rottenberg, Agata Jakubowska, Sarah Wilson, Glenn Adamson, Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, Angela Dimitrikaki, David Crowley, Tomasz Załuski, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Publication details:

Volume: 252 pages.

Format: hardcover.

Illustrations: 567.

Publication date: November 6, 2025.

Dimensions: 30.8 × 24.5 cm.

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