Alina Ślesińska is a great absence in the history of Polish contemporary art. She is compared to the other famous Alina, Szapocznikow, for like her she made her debut in the 50s, in the period of socrealism, and like her she was also interested in figurative sculpture inspired by the work of Henry Moore. However, Alina Ślesińska’s work is currently hardly even given a reference in monographs on contemporary sculpture and in dictionaries of art.

The exhibition presents a dynamic map of the post-WWII art world in the context of Polish artists’ and art critics’ travels to Europe and beyond. Marked on the map have been the points and vectors of those travels but also how – despite the Iron Curtain and the policies of mutual isolation – knowledge and inspirations were exchanged. The titular ‘migrations’ pertain not only to the artists themselves and their official and semi-official foreign trips but also to the phenomenon of travelling works and wandering ideas.