The exhibition at the CBWA filled six rooms and featured paintings, sculptures and graphics (74 paintings, 35 sculptures, 157 drawings, fabrics and tapestries.) Apart from professional art, folk art has also had its place at the exhibition. In line with the organisers’ assumptions, the audience could explore the history and everyday life of Romania in recent years on the basis of the presented works.

The organisation of this exhibition (Ogólnopolska Wystawa Architektury Wnętrz, hereafter OWAW) — as well as the subsequent three editions of the National Art Exhibitions (starting in 1950) and the Universal Exhibition of Architecture in 1953 (n.b. almost all of them took place at Zachęta) — was a manifestation of the centralism typical of the Stalinist organisation of artistic life in Poland.

The "Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists" in Zachęta CBWA was the first large official exhibition of Soviet art in the Polish People’s Republic and the second large exhibition of its kind in Warsaw. The first one was organised in the Second Republic of Poland , in a different historical reality, at the Warsaw Institute of Art Propaganda in March of 1933.

‘On the eve of liberation, 22 April 1945, Käthe Kollwitz dies, not living to see how a new democratic Germany, the Germany for which she fought with the whole heart of a progressive artist, arises with the support of the Soviet Union,’ Stanisław Hen writes in his review of the presentation held in the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions (CBWA).