Poles Keep Painting: Works from the MOCAK Collection

Paweł Książek, Fig. 31, 2014, MOCAK Collection

Marcin Maciejowski, We, Young Artists, Welcome the Masterpiece by Podkowinski with Utmost Joy, 2014, MOCAK Collection

Małgorzata Blamowska, untitled, oil / canvas, 2007, MOCAK Collection

Agata Kus, Turboslavs, 2018, oil / canvas, MOCAK Collection

The exhibition Poles Keep Painting: Works from the MOCAK Collection at the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in Vilnius presents works by 18 Polish artists. The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections: The Study of Things and Words, People, Symbolic Scenes and The Density of Reality. We showcase over 50 most important contemporary Polish painters.

‘Amongst the artistic media, painting is a particularly potent weapon […]. In Poland, painting enjoys a position of special recognition, because, although the genre was slow in arriving in the country – its origins dating back only to the mid-19^th century – it later gained impetus, brought many individualistic talents and entered into a partnership dialogue with European art history’ (M. A. Potocka, from the text in the catalogue).

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication in Lithuanian and English, comprising texts on the medium of painting and reproductions of the works with their descriptions and short biographies of the artists.

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The purchase of some of the works from MOCAK Collection was co-financed from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Cultural Prmotion Fund – a National Special Purpose Fund