Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
MSN Warsaw is a public institution that collects works of art, and studies and disseminates the tangible and intangible legacy of contemporary culture. The museum cooperates with a range of groups and communities, as well as institutions in Poland and around the world. It is a space for dialogue and jointly shaping cognitive and aesthetic sensitivity. It grows along with Warsaw, responds to reality, and arouses curiosity. In its everyday operations, the museum strives to act ethically and professionally, with concern for the environment and social bonds.
Now on view
6 exhibitions
The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025
Magdalena Frankowska
Exhibition of publications awarded and distinguished in the 66th PTWK Competition
WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 18: SOVEREIGN AND WELL FED
Joanna Erbel, PhD Alicja Wójcik Jakub Depczyński, dr Joanna Erbel Alicja Wójcik Jakub Depczyński
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…
PATRYK RÓŻYCKI: TRANSFORMATION
Łukasz Ronduda
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.…
WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND
Oliwia Bosomtwe
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
Dorota Jarecka, Magda Lipska, in collaboration with Stephanie Weber, Adrian Djukić, Karin Althaus, Paweł Polit, Magda Lipska we współpracy ze Stephanie Weber, Adrianem Djukiciem, Pawłem Politem
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…
EDWARD DWURNIK: PRIDE AND SHAME
Łukasz Ronduda
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…
