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With over 60 museums and galleries, Warsaw's art landscape is rich and varied. The National Museum and royal palaces like Wilanów showcase historical collections and old masters, including works by Rembrandt. For modern and contemporary art, key venues include the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Ujazdów Castle, and the Museum of Modern Art, which opened its new building in 2024.
This week's highlights
She's Touching Her Forehead, She Can Feel It Burning, She Probably Has a Fever
All of Us or None
Neither Water Nor Land
WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND
Sculpture for a Wall Unit
Venues in Warsaw
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Polish Poster. Collection / Installment 2.
National Museum in Warsaw
The Poster Museum in Wilanów is back! From Young Poland posters to modern graphic designs – the collection of Polish posters includes nearly 36,000 objects. For the first time in the history of the world's first poster…
The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Exhibition of publications awarded and distinguished in the 66th PTWK Competition
Soil and Friends
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
The extensive exhibition Soil and Friends invites us to look down – to where our feet touch the earth. It was prepared by the Ostrava City Gallery of Contemporary Art PLATO in cooperation with thirty artists and the…
Soil and Friends
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
PLATO City Gallery of Contemporary Art in Ostrava and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art invite you to the second edition of the exhibition Soil and Friends. Marking PLATO's 10th anniversary, the…
This Cat Was Drawn During the War
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
The power of art — as opposed to propaganda — lies, among other things, in its ability to unsettle our habitual ways of perceiving reality and to reveal doubts. It is precisely within the field of contemporary art that…
She's Touching Her Forehead, She Can Feel It Burning, She Probably Has a Fever
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
The central work in the exhibition is a five-voice narrative about a devastating storm sweeping across a sea-bound island. The protagonists observe it from a distant shore – initially with curiosity and amazement at the…
Adolescence
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
How does modern art describe the transition from childhood to adulthood, and the problems teenagers face these days? Can artistic tools help them build relationships and create alternative means of communication in the…
WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 18: SOVEREIGN AND WELL FED
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Entering its eighteenth edition, WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION invites viewers to examine urban metabolism: the ways in which the city nurtures itself, how it breathes, what kind of mechanisms it uses for managing energy…
Neither Water Nor Land
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Neither Water Nor Land begins in a place where time does not advance in a straight line. It settles. It thickens. It lingers underfoot. In peatlands, low oxygen and acidic water slow decay to an almost improbable degree…
Jura Shust
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
Żywica* Solar plexus is the first solo exhibition of Jura Shust, a Belarusian artist, in Poland. Its main theme is the relationship between our spirituality and technology. For the exhibition, Shust has prepared a new,…
All of Us or None
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Imran Perretta is a British artist working across film, sound, performance and poetry. He is one of the most compelling voices in contemporary European art today. His practice stems from the experience of living in a…
PATRYK RÓŻYCKI: TRANSFORMATION
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
A series of paintings dealing with the artist’s childhood and adolescence in Poland’s countryside, marked by socio-economic exclusion amid the country’s transition of the 1990s, and the embarrassment and shame involved.…
A House on Roots
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
A House on Roots brings together two artists who use radically different means of expression to create works that ultimately convey a similar message. Their works demonstrate that local identity can serve as an anchor…
Sculpture for a Wall Unit
National Museum in Warsaw
Ceramic penguins, monkeys, strongmen, and sex bombs adorned wall units in Polish homes for almost the entire period of the Polish People's Republic. These unique porcelain "chamber sculptures" became a sensation abroad…
João Maria Gusmão. Following the White Tiger
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
An image is not merely a representation of reality – it is also a material trace of light, a physical construction, and a carrier of meanings. In his films, João Maria Gusmão uses the analogue medium to explore the…
WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Ways of the White Spread Over the Black Land was a 1948 painting by Marian Bogusz. The reversed title of this exhibition illustrates the peculiar dynamics of Poland’s relationships with Blackness and Sub-Saharan Africa…
IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES: SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
As an artistic and political movement, Surrealism had an international reach and internationalist beliefs. Rooted in art and literature, it cherished much wider ambitions: to revolutionize society and redefine life…
{Monolith}
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
The Monolith series explores technologies and materials – from integrated circuits to plastic polymers – that can become lasting relics of human activity. We ask questions about the “deep matter” of future epochs: what…
EDWARD DWURNIK: PRIDE AND SHAME
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
I paint people mostly out of pity—for their imperfection, and mine. Because it’s a pity that adult lives are basically a never-ending attempt to overcome our physical limitations, a struggle with laziness, with one’s…