Art
Maria Prymachenko Cultivated Whimsy as Resistance
An exhibition in Warsaw invites visitors to ponder works by the late Ukrainian artist, whose surreal depictions of nature often incorporated critiques of human behavior.
Poland
Art
The Echoes of Russian Atrocities in Two Venice Pavilions
The Venice Biennale’s Polish and Russian pavilions are both showing work by foreign countries, but their intentions and results couldn’t be more different.
Art
The Women Who Created “Naive” Art for the Darkest of Times
A new exhibition in Warsaw celebrates four postwar Polish artists on the margins of art history.
News
God Save Us From These Wax Figures of Kate and Prince William
This settles the matter: We don’t need wax museums.
Art
Making Art as a Form of Resistance
The Discomfort of Evening demonstrates that in the face of unprecedented local and global turmoil young Polish artists see hope and opportunities for art.
Art
What Is It Like to Be an Artist in Warsaw Today?
Warsaw Gallery Weekend and Fringe Warszawa hope to offer long-term solutions for a thriving art scene in Warsaw when skyrocketing inflation and a lack of affordable studio spaces have become the new norm.
News
Polish Museum Implores Visitors to Stop Having Sex on Its Premises
“Guests in love, please understand — most of the exhibits in our museum are objects ‘born’ many years ago and subject to completely different moral standards," said the Fort Gerhard museum in a statement.
Art
Standouts and Historic Firsts by Eastern European Artists and Curators at the Venice Biennale
Sculptures by Hungarian artist Zsófia Keresztes, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas’s Polish Pavilion transformation, and more highlights from this year’s show.
News
How Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art Transformed Itself to Aid Ukrainian Refugees
From supplying medicines and food to organizing poetry readings and stress relief workshops, the museum has shifted its focus from art to humanitarian aid.
Film
Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust
What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit.
Opinion
An Open Letter to Piotr Bernatowicz, the Director of the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Art
Mr. Bernatowicz, in your introductory text you talk about the need for honesty, the disease of hypocrisy, overreaching governments. You do not fulfill a single one of your own ideals.
Film
A Mystical Masseuse Sends a Gated Community Into Upheaval
Director Malgorzata Szumowska uses fantasy to satirize the lives of the affluent in Poland’s official Oscar submission.