Upcoming exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Starting September 12, paintings by Adam Kozicki will be on display at Gallery A—viewable from street level too. The show, titled Everyone at War with Everyone Else, features recent large-scale work from the artist, examining today’s Internet and its users. Thanks to the Museum’s collaboration with its strategic partner Audi, admission to all of the ground floor including that exhibition is free.

 

The fall season at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw begins with the theme “Sculpture Now” as a series of events focused on that particular medium unfolds. Transcending the gallery environment more and more boldly, new sculptural objects respond to the ever-changing reality surrounding them and mark their presence in town.

 

First, just inaugurated September 10 on the terrace inside MSN, was the Sand Fountain by Dominika Olszowy. It’s her debut in public space, specially commissioned for downtown Warsaw. Throughout the weekends of September 12–13 and 19–20, admission to the terrace where the piece is currently displayed will be free to all visitors.

 

Among the season’s highlights, too, is the unveiling of VALIE EXPORT’s monumental sculpture Die Doppelgängerin: September 18 on Central Square, right next to the Museum. Taking the form of twin pairs of oversized scissors, the piece represents both working equipment—as a device for agency in the hands of female dressmakers or film editors—and violence. The recently deceased VALIE EXPORT was the pioneer of Europe’s feminist art.

 

The “Sculpture Now” season culminates in the exhibition curated by Jagna Lewandowska and Szymon Maliborski, titled Sculpture Beyond the Solid. Opening October 16, it presents works by more than thirty artists who approach the sculptural medium as a system rather than a given material—a dynamic array of flows, tensions, and interrelations between the process and the form.

 

Commencing the year 2027 at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is a close collaboration with Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, an institution where more than twenty-five thousand works of art are housed—including many central to the Spanish national heritage such as pieces by Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, or Pablo Picasso, along with the wider world’s finest: from Georges Braque to René Magritte to Louise Bourgeois. Picasso’s oeuvre is displayed at the royal museum as a constellation revolving around the iconic Guernica, for which the artist prepared making tens of sketches. And although the historic painting itself hardly ever leaves Spain for legal reasons, the same does not apply to the drafts in question—which are being shown in Warsaw. The exhibition is scheduled to open on February 26 and is curated by Amanda de la Garza, deputy artistic director of the Museo Reina Sofía, and Szymon Maliborski from MSN.

 

In March, curator Natalia Sielewicz presents the latest in American art. The exhibition, whose working title is Panic Realism, examines this particular mode of representation—“the realism of panic”—as a political record of our times. Shared by the works on show are references to the state of constant fear, which is no longer just a response to the sweeping crisis, but a permanent condition in today’s societies.

 

MSN also continues to feature prominent artists in solo shows, often proposing new ways of looking at specific works or attitudes. Throughout 2027, two such exhibitions are planned: one is the great American portraitist Alice Neel as curated by Alison M. Gingeras, and the other, Polish art icon Zofia Kulik, presented by Łukasz Ronduda.

 

Along with presentations of the art world’s most recognizable figures, the Museum takes care to foreground new phenomena and exhibit emerging artists as part of its program. The future of Polish art is set to take center stage with the show Young Scene, curated by Magdalena Komornicka and Gabriela Skrzypczak (scheduled to open November 2027).

 

Following up on collaborative projects—domestically, this time—MSN will be encouraging viewers to visit Białystok, where the exhibition Intimate Currents, Global Circulations (curated by Agnieszka Tarasiuk) opens in the summer. At the show, latest additions to the Museum’s collection will meet works collected by the Arsenal Gallery. This presentation becomes another in the series of collection shows held outside the capital—after the cities of Zielona Góra, Gorzów Wielkopolski, and Lublin.