Exhibition archives
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16.09.2015
10.01.2016
Love Affair with Graphics. From Albers to Vostell
The exhibition presents 92 works authored by 35 prominent and recognized artists from the second half of the 20th century, originally from Europe and the USA, including Karel Appel, Arman, George Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Allen Jones, Roberto Matta, Mimmo Paladino, Roy Lichtenstein and others. The prints are on loan from the permanent collection Le Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in La Louvière (Belgium). -
01.09.2015
10.01.2016
Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World
The exhibition titled Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World. From the NMK Collection of Old Prints and Maps presents a selection of 60 works dating back to the period from the 15th to the 19th century and devoted to travels, which we learn about through memoirs and literature related to historiography and geography. The old volumes are accompanied by 19 antique maps and atlases.
But I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans. (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) -
13.06.2015
03.01.2016
French Prints from Impressionism to Art Nouveau
The exhibition presents over 300 works by outstanding artists active in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in circles associated with Impressionism, Symbolism, post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Their prints belong to the largest Polish collection of modern French printmaking, numbering around 1110 works, amassed for nearly a quarter of a century by its great enthusiast - Feliks Jasieński. -
20.11.2015
06.12.2015
Display: Portrait of a Woman with a Book
The EUROPEUM exhibition space presents a new acquisition of the National Museum in Krakow – an impressive portrait of a woman titled Portrait of a Woman with a Book (Dutch Patrician) and probably painted by Willem van der Vliet. -
11.08.2015
18.10.2015
Miraculous power of art - Madonna of Paczółtowice
Located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (also known as the Polish Jura), a small wooden church of the Visitation of Madonna in Paczółtowice is home to one of the finest images of Mary in the local history of Gothic panel painting in the region of Małopolska (Lesser Poland). Originally, the image of Madonna with Child in the central altarpiece and the two lateral wings featuring the figures of Saint Barbara and Catherine were parts of a triptych. -
13.08.2015
14.10.2015
In the Dust...
In the dust... is a series of artistic interventions directed towards the museum as the sum of a variety of relationships – between people, things, biographies, history, and space – which each time is created anew, sometimes differently and often only momentarily. Individual projects by Christian Kobald, Alicja Rogalska, Paweł Kruk and Roman Dziadkiewicz will constitute independent components. In such dispersed structure of elements, amid the dust, the museum will be perceived as something in between what is singular and plural, common and separate. -
06.08.2014
30.09.2015
Polish Legions 1914–1918
Exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and the Legions.
On 6 August 2014, on the centenary of the march-out of the First Cadre Company, an exhibition commemorating the Polish Legions was opened in the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow. -
13.02.2015
02.05.2015
Portrait of Walerian Kryciński - Maurycy Gottlieb
This work by Maurycy Gottlieb is a portrait of his good friend and fellow student – Walerian Kryciński. It was painted in 1875 during their stay in Vienna, when they shared an apartment together with other friends. They were both students of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, directed by Jan Matejko. -
26.06.2015
27.09.2015
Ottomania. The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art
Dürer, Memling, Bellini, Tintoretto, Veronese. Works of these outstanding artists, who enjoyed great popularity with the audience, can be admired in Krakow until 27 September 2015 thanks to a unique exhibition titled Ottomania. The Ottoman Orient in the Art of Renaissance, prepared by the National Museum in Krakow in collaboration with Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels. The exhibition is part of a large international project titled “Ottomans & Europeans: Reflecting on five centuries of cultural relations”. -
14.07.2015
27.09.2015
Asymmetric Lady – Eugenia Wyszomirska
Until 27 September, the Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art presents 10 portraits of Eugenia Wyszomirska-Kuźnicka created by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Witkacy's pastels are owned by the Katowice History Museum. -
06.06.2015
27.09.2015
Witkacy's pure form in 'Atma'
Pure Form is an art concept coined by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, which encompasses all arts, including music. In painting, it involved a formal experiment, which resulted in a series of oil paintings created in the early 1920s. -
18.06.2015
13.09.2015
Leon Tarasewicz, Painting Installation
"I dream of a painting I could completely immerse myself in" - Leon Tarasewicz once said, and in 2005, in the Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art of the National Museum in Krakow mounted a spatial installation, creating an illusion of immersion in the painting. On the 10th anniversary of the gallery, the square in front of the Main Building, which serves as the Museum Forum, presents Tarasewicz's colossal construction, which covers an area of 200 square metres and contains an unusual maze. -
05.05.2015
30.08.2015
Monuments of Polish History
'Monuments of Polish History. Chronicles and Historiography in Old Prints from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow'.
The National Museum in Krakow would like to invite the public to another fascinating exhibition – a journey through the history of Poland, in which the most valuable and beautiful old prints: old Polish chronicles, galleries of portraits of rulers, armorials and maps will act as guides. -
01.04.2015
02.08.2015
Zygmunt Radnicki (1894-1969)
Zygmunt Radnicki was one of the youngest representatives of the generation of artists who formed modern art in Poland. The works of this outstanding painter from the years 1913-1969 are presented at the exhibitions in the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow and in the newly opened Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, which are jointly organized by the two institutions. -
20.02.2015
05.07.2015
In the Realm of the Dragon. Chinese Art in the Collections of the National Museum in Krakow
The exhibition presents 400 finest works selected from a priceless collection of Chinese art, numbering over 3,000 objects. The oldest exhibits date back to 2200 years ago, while the newest are over a hundred year old.