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  • A row of ripening tomatoes and cucumbers arranged on a wooden shelf in a sunlit greenhouse.
  • A surrealist oil painting depicting an anatomical, skinless figure sitting in an armchair with its legs stretched out, surrounded by abstract furniture in an empty, sterile room.
  • A colorful painting depicts a bustling city market scene. Foreground features vibrant fruit stands with oranges and apples. People interact warmly, surrounded by historic buildings. The artwork conveys a lively, communal atmosphere.
  • The painting depicts two dark-skinned figures with geometric tattoos or face paint, shown in unnatural poses against a solid violet-blue background. The figure on the left wears a coral-colored outfit, and the figure on the right wears a light pink dress with a white collar. Floating between and around them are symbols of Western consumer culture: a bottle of whiskey, a glass with ice, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a radio, and a small dog on a leash.
  • Two women are standing with their backs to the camera in front of a large glass window, admiring the view of the Palace of Culture and Science, a red construction crane, and Warsaw’s skyscrapers on a sunny day.
  • Oil painting: an older man and a boy are sitting at a table where the man is painting large blue letters that spell out the word “PODNIE” on a white piece of fabric. A pair of glasses and some paint lie nearby. The boy is watching him work.
  • A woman with dark, curly hair looks up with a focused, slightly anxious expression against the backdrop of a dark, cool setting.
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30.08–27.09.2026

ARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 18: SOVEREIGN AND WELL FED

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Now in the museum

Exhibition

26.06.2026–10.01.2027

IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES:
SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM

Exhibition

26.06.2026–10.01.2027

WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND

Exhibition

31.07.2026–28.02.2027

EDWARD DWURNIK: PRIDE AND SHAME

Exhibition

31.07.2026–11.10.2026

PATRYK RÓŻYCKI: TRANSFORMATION

Exhibition

30.08.2026–27.09.2026

WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 18: SOVEREIGN AND WELL FED

Exhibition

16.07.2026–13.09.2026

The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025

Szumin

05.09.2026

Birdwatching walk and guided tour of the Zofia and Oskar Hansen House

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05.09.2026

Warsaw Under Construction 18: A Bicycle Tour Through Urzecze Park

05.09.2026

Warsaw Under Construction 18: FLOW. A River Trip in the Footsteps of Urzecze

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Books arranged on a metal rack

The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025

Exhibition of publications awarded and distinguished in the 66th PTWK Competition

Organised by the Polish Book Publishers Association since 1957, The Most Beautiful Polish Books competition distinguishes publications in which design, typography, editing, printing, binding and publishing concept form a coherent whole.
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A woman, seen from behind, wearing a shiny pink dress with fringe and carrying a distinctive red crab-shaped handbag, is taking a photo with her smartphone of a painting in an art gallery. The work, set in a gold frame, is a black-and-white, surreal ink drawing depicting a dynamic, bony figure riding a fantastical creature.

In the Very Bowels of Changes and Ways of the Black Spread Over the White Land

This exhibition In the Very Bowels of Changes. Surrealism and Antifascism presents Surrealism in a comprehensive historical context, so as to reveal the deeply political and social dimensions.
 
The exhibition Ways of the Black Spread Over the White Land addresses the impact that Polish relations with Blackness and sub-Saharan Africa had on art and visual culture in 1945–1989. 
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Magazyn MSN

Processing the Unbearable, Imagining the Radical

10.08.2026

Planet Piniak: The literary in the work of Piniak Przemysław

Piniak’s complete writings—not much more than a dozen short stories, one dramatic piece, several film scripts, audio shows, and “spoken” performance acts, uncollected notes, and recorded dreams—would make an average-sized volume, neither thin nor a tome. It is a non-existent volume, although perfectly imaginable.

13.08.2026

Bureau of Mask Registry

African Objects in Polish Domestic Spaces, 1960–1990

12.06.2026

The Ethical Choices of Surrealists

The one significant absence from the exhibition is Salvador Dalí. It was he who cemented in the collective imagination the image of surrealism as a dreamlike vision, a Freudian puzzle presented with almost photographic literalness. We see relatively little of this kind of surrealism in the exhibition “In the Very Bowels of Changes.” For the exhibition’s focus is not on style, nor even on an artistic movement in the strict sense. Rather, it is about a certain attitude.

11.06.2026
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Publishing house

We publish books on contemporary art and culture and exhibition catalogs. We are developing several publishing lines: mówi muzeum, kino muzeum, Muzeum w Budowie.

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FRIENDS OF MSN WARSAW

The Association of Friends of MSN Warsaw conducts activities on behalf of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

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