Exhibition archives
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20.02.2019
09.02.2020
“Faces of Poland – Faces of Poles” the Presidential Palace in Warsaw
The works of Jacek Malczewski, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Leon Wyczółkowski, but also of modern painters: Wiesław Szamborski or Romuald Oramus will form the exhibition “Faces of Poland – faces of Poles”. It is another part of the presentation of Polish art at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, prepared by the National Museum in Krakow. -
30.10.2020
25.04.2021
Marian Warzecha.<br>The Open Set
The exhibition of Marian Warzecha’s work held at the National Museum in Krakow, while modest, is a vitally important initiative aimed at presenting the oeuvre of this eminent artist. -
20.09.2019
20.09.2020
Warning! Forgery!
Counterfeiting coins is as old as the coins themselves. Since the beginning, people tried to improve their economic existence by making their own money, infringing the rights of their official issuers. -
26.06.2020
26.07.2020
Zygmunt Rytka. To Whom Does the Cosmos Belong?
To Whom Does the Cosmos Belong? is the first exhibition of the works of Zygmunt Rytka to have been realised by utilising the late artist’s digitised archive. The structural starting point for the exhibition is the Photovision series, the main part of which was created between 1978–1983. This was a period spanning the end of the Gierek era, with its attempts at creating a socialist consumer society; subsequent strikes and the struggle for the legalisation of the Solidarity labour movement; and the declaration and imposition of martial law in Poland, accompanied by increasing propaganda and manipulation of mass media through information channels controlled by the regime. During this time, Rytka embarked on a project oriented around photographing his television screen. He took more than 5,000 pictures from this vantage, the majority of which have never been published. These photographs capture not only the political and cultural climate of Poland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but they also transcend literality, forming a stream of unsettling images, as if unspooling from the collective consciousness of modern society.
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21.10.2020
03.11.2020
The Vistula is burning
The weather as we know it does not exist anymore so the time of conscious self-enmeshment has come. We reach for the figure of the burning water as something both unusual and stunning; a metaphor of what may happen after the ice sheet melts down, the acidification of oceans rises, soils dry out and following many other signs in the panorama of this beautiful world, which is going extinct before our very eyes but which we still can save before the rivers flame up. The Vistula is Burning is an alarm that tolls the end of the well-known order. We are bringing up the longest Polish river because like Andri Snær Magnason, the author of On Time and Water, we are confident that in order to see a big picture of a problem we need to experience it locally. What is required to ease off "the shock of the future" is think of a strategy of survival for an individual, micro-environments and entire society. Phenomena that are hard to comprehend emerge like viscous hyper-objects. -
20.09.2017
31.12.2019
I find ancient times very beautiful. Antiquity seen by a collector
The exhibition "I find ancient times very beautiful. Antiquity seen by a collector" includes works from three Krakow collections: the Princes Czartoryski Museum, the Potocki Palace in Krzeszowice and the National Museum in Krakow. -
30.06.2020
09.04.2021
Wyspiański. Studio Space
Exhibition of Stanisław Wyspiański’s works from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow. -
16.10.2020
28.03.2021
Genius of the Baroque. Szymon Czechowicz (1689-1775)
Art of Szymon Czechowicz — a Pole whose talent matches that of the best Italian masters of his era — has never been presented in a special, monograph exhibition. A large display of his oeuvre — more than 200 paintings and drawings — makes a unique opportunity to meet grand art of late Baroque. -
24.07.2020
29.11.2020
1920. Miracle of the Vistula
On the essential point, there can be little room for doubt; had the Soviet forces overcome Polish resistance and captured Warsaw, Bolshevism would have spread throughout Central Europe and might well have penetrated the whole continent.’
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04.07.2020
10.01.2021
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła. Photographs by Adam Bujak
The work of Kraków photographer Adam Bujak has always touched upon issues related to the spiritual sphere of human life. Spirituality resounds both from contemplative shots reflecting the beauty of nature and the most important city for the photographer – Kraków, as well as from photographs depicting the mysticism of religious ceremonies. -
14.02.2020
16.08.2020
Miracle of Light. Medieval Stained Glass in Poland
In the Middle Ages, stained glass windows in churches were a huge artistic, technical and financial challenge, thus confirming the principals' prestige. Early Modern was a period when these stained glass windows were being removed, so that a very small percentage has survived to this day. Despite the fascination it stirred in the nineteenth century, stained glass was regarded as a decorative art and was much underrated, and still is - like the light and color that combine to create it - a phenomenon as fascinating as it is elusive. -
21.09.2020
13.12.2020
XVI Międzynarodowe Biennale Sztuk Plastycznych Osób Niepełnosprawnych
XVI Międzynarodowe Biennale Sztuk Plastycznych Osób Niepełnosprawnych, organizowane przez Fundację Sztuki Osób Niepełnosprawnych we współpracy z Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie, odbędzie się od 21 września do 13 grudnia 2020 r. w Kamienicy Szołayskich – oddziale Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie. Wystawa jest efektem konkursu, w którym wzięło udział 321 autorów z Brazylii, Finlandii, Hiszpanii, Indii, Polski, Słowacji i Ukrainy, którzy nadesłali 733 prace. -
01.02.2013
06.12.2020
Szymborska’s Drawer
On 1 February 2013, the first anniversary of the death of Wisława Szymborska, the exhibition Szymborska’s Drawer opened at Szołayski House, a Department of the National Museum in Krakow (pl. Szczepanski 9). -
20.07.2019
14.01.2020
Józef Mehoffer - St. Sebastian and St. Maurice
On 10 April 2019, the collection of the National Museum in Krakow gained Józef Mehoffer’s another design for the stained glass windows in the Fribourg Cathedral: The St. Sebastian and St. Maurice cartoon, which together with the St. Catherine and St. Barbara cartoon bought last year, form the design of the stained glass window The Martyrs — world-class masterpiece of monumental art, awarded the gold medal at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900. -
27.09.2019
15.03.2020
Here comes Youth. The First Krakow Group
The exhibition tells the story of a short, yet vivid existence of the first Krakow Group, of the life and works of colorful and outstanding youths, whose intertwined fates were part of the history of Polish avant-garde. Aleksander (Sasza) Blonder (pseudonym André Blondel), Blima (Berta) Grünberg, Maria Jarema, Franciszek Jaźwiecki, Leopold Lewicki, Adam Marczyński, Stanisław Osostowicz, Szymon Piasecki, Mojżesz Schwanenfeld, Bolesław Stawiński, Jonasz Stern, Eugeniusz Waniek, Henryk Wiciński, Aleksander Winnicki – these are the members of the first pre-war Krakow Group.