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Changes in exhibition availability

From 17 February, the museum permanent exhibitions will be changed. Only the exhibition of the MOCAK Collection will be available to visitors.

The New Agreement

27 November 2025

HUSH TIME at MOCAK

Every Wednesday from 4 pm to 7 pm, HUSH TIME will be observed at MOCAK: a quiet time.

Restaging the Museum?

During the discussion, we will consider the entire museum as a stage for which a script must be written, actors selected, the style of the interior decor altered and the set design created, the lighting set up and the characterisation devised.

Ewa Partum Active Poetry

In her performance Active Poetry Ewa Partum draws on her iconic work from the early 1970s, which was based on scattering letters from well-known literary works in public spaces.

Steven Henry Madoff, Unseparate: Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aesthetics

In his new book Madoff proposes that at the root of contemporary installation art and performance, the practices of early Modernists, ranging from Wagner and Cézanne to Hugo Ball, Duchamp, and Gropius’s Bauhaus, can be thought of as proto-networks and give rise to a network aesthetics.

Collecting Is About Conviction: Meet the Collector Alain Servais

Alain Servais is one of the most engaged, outspoken, well-informed and well-travelled collectors in the international contemporary art field.

For the Toddler’s Ear 16.05

On Saturday 16 May, children up to three are invited to family music classes at MOCAK. We will play and sing together! We will discover rhythms, tunes and the sounds of various instruments.

For the Toddler’s Ear 11.4

On Saturday 11 April, children up to three are invited to family music classes at MOCAK. We will play and sing together! We will discover rhythms, tunes and the sounds of various instruments.

For the Toddler’s Ear 28.03

On Saturday 28 March, children up to three are invited to family music classes at MOCAK. We will play and sing together! We will discover rhythms, tunes and the sounds of various instruments.

Calendar

Ewa Partum, //Contemplating Art//, 2000,1

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Ewa Partum

Ewa Partum: Contemplating Art, Contemplating Love

Toyen, //Dormant//, 1936, akwarela i2

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Toyen

Toyen: Dreaming in the Margins | Sny z obrzeży

Annette Kelm, Alexandra Kollontay, Wege3

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Annette Kelm

Annette Kelm: Speak, Volumes | Tomy, przemówcie

Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka, sketch for the4

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka

Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka: Ecologies of Togetherness

Monika Drożyńska, //Heall//, 2026, hand5

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Monika Drożyńska

Monika Drożyńska: Heall

06.03.2026
— 14.06.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Martyna Nowicka, Arkadiusz Półtorak

re:primer. Chapter 1: Self-Identifications

Photo: Dominik Stanisławski7

06.03.2026
— 12.04.2026
at 6 pm

Temporary exhibition

Marta Romankiv, Dominik Stanisławski, Łukasz Surowiec

Great Job

The Mieczysław Porębski Library in1

Permanent Exhibition

The Mieczysław Porębski Library (MOCAK Collection)

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Permanent Exhibition

Krystian Lupa

Live Factory 2: Warhol by Lupa (MOCAK Collection)

Leopold Kessler, //Surrogate City Bike1

Permanent Exhibition

Outdoor Exhibits from the MOCAK Collection

Stanisław Dróżdż, //Uncertainty–Hesitation–Certainty//, 1967, 801

Permanent Exhibition

Dróżdż

Concept-Shapes (MOCAK Collection)

Valie Export, //Self-Portrait with Head//1

Permanent Exhibition

Valie Export

Challenging Experiments on Self and Others

Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, //Pneumatic Wheelchair//, 1994,1

Permanent Exhibition

Great Contemporaries: A Gift from Teresa and Andrzej Starmach

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06.03.2026
at 18.30

Ewa Partum Active Poetry

photo: Karolina Kraczkowska2

06.03.2026
at 18.30

Performance: Marta Ziółek PERSONA

Alain Servais courtesy Michel Loriaux1

10.03.2026
at 18.00

Collecting Is About Conviction: Meet the Collector Alain Servais

Steven Henry Madoff. Photo courtesy1

13.03.2026
at 18.00

Steven Henry Madoff, Unseparate: Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aesthetics

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18.03.2026
at 18.00

Restaging the Museum?

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28.03.2026
at 12.30

For the Toddler’s Ear 28.03

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11.04.2026
at 12.30

For the Toddler’s Ear 11.4

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16.05.2026
at 14.00

For the Toddler’s Ear 16.05

Artist

Sanja Iveković

Maria Pinińska-Bereś

Piotr Blamowski

Zbigniew Makowski

Beata Stankiewicz