Timeline

MOCAK in plein air: Amidst Flowers: Art and Music

During the Terra Artis Festival in Lanckorona we invite you to the workshop inspired by the art of the Japanese artist Akira Inumaru and the visual music scores of artists from the MOCAK Collection.

MOCAK Summer Cinema. McQueen

Friday 17 July, 9 pm

Seminar: Audiodescription

On Tuesday 14 July at 11 we invite you to a seminar on Audiodescription.

MOCAK Summer Cinema

Throughout the summer holidays MOCAK welcomes you to the evening film screenings, with a focus on art. The films will be shown on Fridays from 3 July until 28 August at 9 pm in the Museum Arches.

Thursdays with the Collection. Karolina Kowalska

In May and June, Thursdays with the Collection brings Rave, a video by Karolina Kowalska. It is a compilation of The Wedding, a motion picture by Andrzej Wajda, which was an adaptation of Stanisław Wyspiański’s play of the same name.

MOCAK Reopens!

Philosopher and Photographer

The exhibition is part of our series of projects in which we showcase outstanding poets, writers and thinkers in other than their accustomed creative roles – as painters, draftsmen, collage makers or photographers. To date, we have exhibited works by Wisława Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Joachim Ringelnatz, Leon Chwistek and Herta Müller. Each exhibition is accompanied by a sizeable publication that analyses and compares the different creative fields.

The Pope

The Pope is a further exhibition that brings diverse artistic responses to the bishop of Rome. The previous show took place in 2014. Today, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła (1920–2005), known to the world as John Paul II, the Museum has prepared a presentation devoted in its entirety to the phenomenon of the Polish Pope.

Dialogue with the Space (MOCAK Collection)

Works in which the relationship with the surroundings they are in plays a significant role and provides a semantic clinch are usually called installations. Artists employ the exhibition space available or design it themselves. In this presentation, we show 14 works that form a relationship with a neutral environment. Some of these works annex the interiors they occupy, others become a part of its geometry, and others still make use of isolation, revealing fragments of their private worlds.

Contemporary Models of Realism (MOCAK Collection)

The term ‘realism’ appeared in the second half of the 19th century. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of realistic representation applies throughout art history. In the popular perception, 'good art' is a faithful representation of reality. This is not, however, what artists consider the most important. They engage in a dialogue with realistic images using their tangibility as raw material to build their concepts.