The exhibition “Transformations. Modernity in the Third Polish Republic” is the last in the “4 x Modernity” series which has been organised at the National Museum in Cracow since 2021. As part of the exhibition, a wide variety of interpretations of modernity are shown in the fields of Polish art, architecture and design, beginning from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and continuing up to the present day. This fourth exhibition will illustrate the phenomenon of the revision of the concept of modernity and its titular transformation, which were contemporaneous with the social, cultural, and political transformations which took place after 1989. A consequence of these transformations was a multiplicity of creative attitudes and a reinterpretation of the code of modernity, which no longer presented a unified and cohesive image yet which brought about a dynamic and diverse polyphony of voices, characteristic of the cultural life of the Third Republic.

The exhibition features works of the most significant Polish artists active after 1989, for the majority of whom this is their first time appearing at the National Museum in Krakow. The exhibition is not of an encyclopaedic nature but sheds light on key problems of the times of transformation, presenting both works which are emblematic of the era of the Third Republic and less well-known pieces which have until now not received broader exposure in Polish museums, originating from public and private collections, or presented on loan from the artists themselves.

The exhibition at the Main Building of MNK is available from 20.12.2024 to 18.05.2025.

More information: https://mnk.pl/en/exhibitions/transformation