The lecture will be devoted to art in public space and the problem of its preservation.

Architectural guided tour throught the exhibition of Monika Sosnowska. The number of places is limited to 15 people!

The seesion is held on the occasion of the artist's exhibition. For 30 years he has been dealing with issues of national identity and nationalism.

Join our thematic online guided tour! Our knowledgeable educators will guide you through the sculptures of Monika Sosnowska and answer all of your questions.

In September make sure to check out our Art Bookshop! You'll find 20% discount on our publications and accessories.

In Anna Baumgart's film, women act out gestures and actions accompanying self-mutilation, while the artist touches on social taboos.

Aleksandra Kubiak's exhibition presented a very personal film that combined video performance with a documentary.

Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Natalia LL and Ewa Partum – pioneers of women's art in Poland – were the protagonists of the exhibition. Here are the accompanying texts.

One of the most outstanding French artists, who created her most important works in the times of the feminist revolt. FInd out more!

We recall the exhibition of works from the ING collection through an audioguide recorded by the curators – Rafał Dominik and Szymon Żydek.

In 2015, an exhibition of works from our collection took place in the austere interiors of the renovated Raczyński's house – Zachęta's direct neighbour.

1978, Kordegarda Gallery and the collection of Jan Styczyński.

The 1968 exhibition was in line with the cultural policy of the minister André Malraux, who established a commission in charge of public procurement of works of art.

Have a look at the photo documentation of the newest exhibition at Zachęta!

Kossakowski's photos from the Polish Industry series were made in the 1960's for the Poland monthly.

Visualizations of sculptor's architectural designs based on Eustachy Kossakowski's photomontages.

‘Technological progress provides the artist with solutions unknown hitherto’ — wrote Michel Faré in 1964 in the exhibition catalog.

Monika Sosnowska's monumental Staircase was presented at the exhibition New Sculpture? in 2012.

The exhibition curated by Maria Brewińska took on the subject of the relationship between contemporary sculpture and modernism. Find out more from the folder accompanying the exhibition.

From our collection we present a work from the early 1970s by Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz – a great example of a metal sculpture.

‘An image of the country in which we live, which we build, improve and beautify’ –this is how the exhibition was announced in the press in 1969.

From an iridescent fountain to dance performances – we recall all the events accompanying the exhibition Plac Małachowskiego 3.

The first exhibition inspired by Zachęta's audience decelopment research that took place in 2011. We recommend reading the curators' texts.

The monumental pot, made by using an original mould preserved at the defunct workshop in Łysa Góra, decorated the entrance to the ZPR.

1957. In front of Zacheta Zachęta there was a "propaganda" spatial decoration designed by Wojciech Zamecznik.

A water pot from the 1960s stood in front of Zachęta in the summer of 2018. See what plants we planted with the support of the University of Warsaw Botanical Garden.

Przemysław Strożek's book presents Polish-Moroccan artistic relations in various art fields: from painting to film and conceptual practices.

The artist's main motifs were present at her solo exhibition, including processing personal stories or obsessively focusing on the issue of invisibility.

Ania Witkowska and Adam Witkowski in their project sought to answer the question: to what extent does them being a family unit affects their work.

Daniel Kotowski talks about the vision of exhibition's curator – Maria Brewińska and the ideas behind the presented films. (in Polish)

The project presented in 2011 presented photos of Chongqing – one of many developing Chinese cities, growing at an impressive and alarming pace.

Recording of a discussion accompanying the exhibition Weeds by Karolina Grzywnowicz – a project about plants that are a record of social and political history.

The exhibition presented the symbolic "starting point" of the People's Republic of Poland, presenting photos of Warsaw's ruins, taken just after the liberation of the city.

'Waterbull (1945), a Pollock painting owned by the Stedelijk since 1950, was sent to Warsaw. The work constituted the artist’s answer to Picasso’s Guernica, travelling around the US from 1939' 

The artist's very personal, poetic work is positioned within the limits of broadly understood surrealism. Vital, organic forms and color patches characterize her work from the 1960s.

How to look after contemporary works of art? We recommend the book accompanying an unusual display from the Zachęta collection (This is not an exhibition, 2008).

Karolina Zychowicz writes about the legendary director of the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions Zachęta (1954–1969).

Hansen's Open Form and Linear Continuous System, as well as an analysis of the "visual contamination" and a critique of Urbanowicz's urban monoculture – a Venetian presentation at CBWA in 1977.

A historic building in which Tyrmand wrote The Man With White Eyes, through the gaze of Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga.

Can a building be as dynamic as the climate? This and other questions are answered in the publication accompanying the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 2018 Architecture Biennale.

A panel accompanying the Impossible Figures exhibition (2014) showed the connections between architecture and power, both in a historical and contemporary context.

First extensive exhibition of naïve art at the CBWA took place in 1958. Gabriela Świtek writes about the show and its reception.

The theme of children appears in many of Deskur's works. The artist's nephews are the protagonists of the presented series.

The first exhibition prepared for and by children took place at Zachęta in 2003. Here is the catalog accompanying this exhibition!

What should a good illustrated children's book look like? Our panelists tried to answer this question.

Karolina Vyšata presents a handful of ideas for how to watch art together with your children.

The films by Olaf and Konstanty Brzeski were presented at the exhibition Two Arts Are Better than One. See how to stimulate children's creativity.

"For the first time we have the opportunity to get more closely acquainted with drawings, prints and watercolours from the U.S" — wrote an art critique in 1958. Read Petra Skorypsky's research paper.

By combining and modifying objects the artist created a completely new item — a visual idea of ​​things.

The first exhibition at Zachęta dedicated to music and visual arts took place in 2009. See the poster and read about this international show.

Dróżdż's painting from the Zachęta collection inspired middle school students to create their musical interpretations of this work. Listen to the Musical Image and get inspired yourself!

100 Works from Futurism to the Present Day Depicting the Italian Contribution to European Avant-garde in the 20th Century – CBWA, year 1968. 

How to you depict passage of time? Pawlak presents it on a canvas with the help of clippings, past mementos and pictograms.

Three episodes, connected by the theme of disaster and inspired by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds.

Ceramic architectural decorations from the 60s, and contemporary artists. Listen to the exhibition’s curator.

For a ten-year-old, what is “looking for lost time”? Listen to audio description of the work by Tymon Rogalski and his parents.

How does time and change of space affect an artwork? We recall Konrad Smoleński’s project and the accompanying folder.

The first comprehensive showcase of Soviet socialist realism took place at Zachęta in 1951. About its ideological dimension, among others, writes dr hab. Iwona Luba.

Romani Alphabet Boards are a series of graphics by Dorota Podlaska, with which the artist introduces a culture, which is close to us.

Paintings and drawings by Witkacy, at an exhibition arranged by Tadeusz Kantor himself. We are going back in time to 1967.

Ewa Zarzycka – performer and  conceptual artist. Here are her drawings from our collections.

Prof. Andrzej Pieńkos writes about the exhibition of young Danish artists, presented at Zachęta in 1968.

Duchamp and a bicycle badge – in other words, appropriation art carried out by one of the most pawky Polish artists.

Joanna Malinowska & Christian Tomaszewski inspired by the Soviet space program.

Do you remember this extraordinary exhibition of Julian Antoniszczak? Accompanying poster was designed by Jakub de Barbaro.