Publishing house

We strive to prove that writing about art and artists can be exciting and inspiring even for people who are not involved in the art world on a daily basis. For such readers, we primarily recommend titles from the series mówi muzeum (the museum speaks), developed in cooperation with Karakter Publishing House: biographies (Zofia and Oskar Hansen, Alina Szapocznikow), stories about important and lively phenomena (queer culture, feminist art in Ukraine in the 21st century, Polish critical art of the 1990s).

Museum Under Construction and New Histories of Art are books by academics and researchers published in Polish or English, which we address to the international community of art historians.

Museum Cinema is a feminist look at film art – "from Dadaism to the post-internet."

Publications arising directly from the Museum's program—exhibitions, the WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION festival—include the famous Spór o odbudowę Warszawy. Od gruzów do reprywatyzacji, the catalogues Nigdy więcej. Sztuka wobec wojny i faszyzmu w XX i XXI wieku, Podległa. Kobiety i dyskurs narodowy, and the extremely popular album The Dark Arts. Aleksandra Waliszewska and Symbolism.

Some of our books are also available in ebook form, and all are widely distributed, including internationally (University of Chicago Press) and in the online M Sklep and brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Professor Andrzej Turowski's book "Radykalne oko. O Witkacym, Kobro, Strzemińskim, Themersonach, Żarnowerównie i innych twórcach sztuki budzącej niepokój" was published by MSN Publishing in collaboration with słowo/obraz terytoria Publishing.

The jury's decision was announced on December 1 during a gala ceremony at the Łódź Philharmonic. Due to poor health, Professor Turowski was unable to attend the ceremony. The award was accepted on his behalf by Katarzyna Szotkowska-Beylin, editor-in-chief of the Museum of Modern Art Publishing House, who read a letter from the winner.

The Kotarbiński Award competition is a great promotion of research, humanities publications, and the humanities themselves. It is the only independent award of its kind in Poland, granted to scientists by an academic institution. Established by the University of Łódź in 2015, the competition has so far received a total of nearly 620 entries from 145 Polish research centers. Fifty outstanding books have made it to the finals of all editions. According to the nominees themselves, this is the most important competition for humanists in Poland. We all need humanistic reflection, especially today in the face of conflicts and tensions in the world.