Restaging the Museum?

18.3.2026, 6 pm

Participants: Zdenka Badovinac, independent curator, Daniel Muzyczuk, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi; Hanna Wróblewska, independent curator

Moderated by: Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Adam Budak

18.3.2026, 6 pm

In the series: Deconstruction of the Museum

Discussion in English

The stage, artists, presenting, spotlight, narrative – the vocabulary we use in the context of the museums connects it to the theatre. 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. As a long-standing institution, the museum has reached a point where a fundamental makeover is required to make it relevant to contemporary audiences in light of the changes taking place in all areas – social, political and economic. We will be talking with our guests about the formats of possible change as well as the boundaries that need to be pushed and those that must not be crossed.

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Zdenka Badovinac was director of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana from 1993 to 2020 (and, from 2011, also of Contemporary Art Metelkova). From 2022 to 2023, she headed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (MSU). She currently works as an independent curator and writer.

In her work, Zdenka Badovinac focuses on the historical approach to Eastern European art, key current issues in contemporary international art, and forms of cultural production in specific contexts. She launched the first collection of Eastern European art, Arteast 2000+, at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. She has curated numerous exhibitions of international significance; among others, Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present (1998), NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (Moderna galerija, 2015), Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos and Crypts, Hello World: Revising a Collection (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2017), Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia (MAXXI, Rzym, 2021), Sanja Iveković: Works of Heart (Kunsthalle Wien, 2022; MSU, Zagreb, 2023), The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood, co-curated with Jasna Jakšić and Ana Škegro (MSU, Zagreb, 2024), Freeing the Voices (Kunstahaus Graz, 2025).

Her latest books are Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions (Sternberg Press / Thoughts on Curating, 2022) and Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, 2019).

She is the founding member of  L’Internationale, a confederation of seven European institutions dedicated to modern and contemporary art, and also President of CIMAM, the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art, 2010–2013. In 2020, she received the Igor Zabel Award in the field of culture and theory.

 

Daniel Muzyczuk is the director of the Museum of Art in Łódź. He has curated projects including: Long Gone Susan Philipsz, Poszliśmy do Croatan (with Robert Rumas), Melancholia sprzeciwu (with Agnieszka Pindera), Spojrzenia 2011, Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała. Eksperymenty w sztuce i muzyce w Europie Wschodniej 1957–1984 (with David Crowley), Notatki z podziemia. Sztuka i muzyka alternatywna w Europie Wschodniej 1968–1994 (with Davide Crowley), Muzeum rytmu (with Natasha Ginwala), Through The Soundproof Curtain: The Polish Radio Experimental (with Michał Mendyk) and Praca, praca, praca (praca). Céline Condorelli i Wendelien van Oldenborgh (with Joanna Sokołowska). Curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 55^th Venice Biennale in 2013.

 

Hanna Wróblewska is an art historian and curator. From 2010 to 2021, she was director of Zachęta – National Gallery of Art and commissioner of the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. From 2022 to 2023, she served as deputy director for research and exhibitions at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. Minister of Culture and National Heritage from 2024 to 2025. Member of the Society of the Zachęta Gallery of Fine Arts, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Polish National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Curator of exhibitions at, among others, the Zachęta – Andrzej Wróblewski. Retrospektywa (1995), Panoptykon. Architektura i teatr więzienia (2005), Rewolucje 1968 (with Maria Brewińskąa, 2008), Katarzyna Kozyra. Casting (2010), Marlene Dumas. Miłość nie ma z tym nic wspólnego (2012), Sarkis. Tęcza anioła (2017), Andrzej Krauze. Sztuka fruwania (2020) and Pamięć 1943 (with Jacek Konik) in Kordegarda Gallery (2023).