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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
Polish Poster. Collection / Installment 2.
Neither Water Nor Land
She's Touching Her Forehead, She Can Feel It Burning, She Probably Has a Fever
Krzysztof Gil. Nobody wants you here
MINH LAN TRAN SPINE
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Dorota Podlaska. Memoirs of Life and Travels
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
15.05 – 19.07.2026 Dorota Podlaska. Memoirs of Life and Travels Zachęta Project Room curator: Magda Kardasz coordination: Pola Gadowska
Krzysztof Gil. Nobody wants you here
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
Krzysztof Gil’s exhibition explores the complex issue of the ghetto in its contemporary sense. In the past, ghettos were physically segregated parts of cities, often surrounded by walls and cut off from the rest of the…
PINIAK PRZEMYSŁAW HIT WHERE IT HURTS
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
This solo exhibition of Przemysław Piniak, an intermedia artist who died prematurely, marks the first institutional effort to take a broader look at his work. The exhibition’s curators follow the mythology he created…
JULIE MEHRETU: KAIROS/HAUNTOLOGICAL VARIATIONS
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
With “Kairos / Hauntological Variations,” the work of Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa), a celebrated American artist with Ethiopian and Polish roots, makes its first ever appearance in Poland. In the show’s title,…
MINH LAN TRAN SPINE
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
In her new commission for the museum’s staircase, Minh Lan Tran (b. 1997, Hong Kong) extends the language of abstract painting into architecture. The work unfolds vertically through the space, like a scroll released…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…