Pop-up Saturday at MOCAK

We invite you to Pop-up Saturday at MOCAK The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków on 31 January 2026 from 11:00 to 14:00.

Participants on the ‘The (New) Museum’ course at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University have prepared a participatory programme for exploring the museum's current exhibitions. There will be an opportunity to play with and reflect on the selected works.

Discover your art perception profile

Visit the exhibition House of Day, House of Night and find out what your choices reveal about you. This interactive project – which accompanies the exhibition of works from Radosław Kotarski’s collection – offers a new way to experience art. We invite you to choose one of the two narrative paths: Day or Night. Each path follows a trail of eight paintings, with a question about each one and a choice of different emotional interpretations. In the finale, your answers will be tallied to reveal what type of museum visitor you are.

Project curators: Martyna Jędrzejewska, Anastasiya Nazarenka, Agnieszka Danecka, Wincenty Hojowski, Krzysztof Rogoda, Martyna Siwek, Ada Aronowska, Michał Wojciechowski and Antoni Salwiński.

Sharing Stories Through Art: The Work of Sana Shahkuradova Tanska

The work The Rapture by Sana Shahmuradova Tanska addresses the themes of intergenerational trauma and communication with ancestors in the context of contemporary conflicts – specifically, the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Together, the artwork and the site raise questions about how violence continues to affect people across the generations. You are invited to take part. You can collect paper and writing materials at the table. So, take a seat on one of the chairs or pillows in front of Sana’s work and write a word or a sentence, draw something, or share a short reflection inspired by the artwork or the site.  All contributions will be collected in a shared book. At the end of the project, this book will be given to the artist, who will then be invited to respond, thus continuing the dialogue between visitors, the artwork and the place.

Project curators: Febe Cense, Aleksandra Bujar, Evgenii Kudiashev, Victor Marciniszyn

The 2022–2025 Glossary

Taking inspiration from Aleksander Janicki’s exhiition Self-Portrait of Poles, we invite you to help create a shared lexicon for our times. Just as Janicki uses different installations, we use language to interpret the present. The years 2022–2025 have reshaped our vocabulary — words such as 'border', 'resilience' and 'AI' have taken on new, lived meanings. What word defines this era for you, the Visitor? We invite you to our interactive gallery station and encourage you to contribute your own term to the evolving archive. Together, we will compile a subjective lexicon of the Polish experience, transforming personal reflections into a shared linguistic portrait of a nation in transition.

Project curators: Szymon Filipiec and Marcin Kowalski

 

Supervision of the project: Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska

The project is being carried out as part of MOCAK's ‘Creative Exchange’ programme.