Two exhibitions are available at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from 21.11.2025 to 03.05.2026:

– “The City of Women” is an exhibition consisting of four parts: “Gutsy”, curated by Julia Bryan-Wilson, “Other Tomorrows” by Michalina Sablik and Vera Zalutskaya, “Her Heart” by Karolina Gembara, and “We were there. International Women’s Year 1975”, curated by Wiktoria Szczupacka.

This mosaic of different attitudes and aesthetics is a testament to the richness, diverse traditions and power of feminist art, which will be presented in parallel to the historic, monumental exhibition “The Female Question 1550–2025”.

“The City of Women” offers a multitude of perspectives that refer to both well-known and established research topics related to art created by female artists, as well as trace the changes in current artistic sensibilities in this area. On the one hand, the project “Z trzewi” (“Gutsy”) employs aesthetic feminist artistic language and exhibition design that is also political, while on the other, in “Inne jutra” (“Other Tomorrows”), the curators challenge established feminist norms. They seek to complicate the image of art created by female artists by introducing fluid categories that cut across binary identity divisions between he and she. Wiktoria Szczupacka takes a more academic approach, calling attention to the overlooked history of feminist emancipation in communist Poland. Karolina Gembara presents an activist point of view, showing the struggle for reproductive rights from a very contemporary perspective.

The exhibition opens at a time when attention to women’s rights in Poland is once again taking a back seat, and years of globalization and activism are not yielding the desired results. The fundamental demand of various forms of feminist art is equality, and art strengthens the political imagination that can give it real shape.

Curated by: Karolina Gembara, Michalina Sablik i Vera Zalutskaya, Wiktoria Szczupacka, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Curatorial cooperation from MSN: Sebastian Cichocki, Jagna Lewandowska, Szymon Maliborski.

More: https://artmuseum.pl/en/exhibitions/the-city-of-women

– “The Woman Question 1550-1525” – organized by curator and art historian Alison M. Gingeras, this exhibition challenges the notion that women were largely absent from art before the late 1800s. The nine-part visual narrative is a testament to the enduring and dynamic creativity of women artists over the last 500 years. The result is a collection of nearly 200 works, including paintings by Renaissance, Baroque and 19th-century women artists through more contemporary works, offering a centuries-long visual history of women’s “emancipation.”

It’s a fallacy that women artists were rare exceptions before the 20th century. “The Woman Question” demonstrates that women have consistently pursued their creative missions despite being often underappreciated and operating against various social restrictions. Women have asserted their artistic presence while simultaneously using their art to represent and validate their individual experiences. In addition to showcasing a diverse range of artistic practices, the exhibition aims to show the power inherent in a feminist approach to art history—one that demands justice, restores the voices of the “erased,” and leads to a revision of the so-called canon.

The exhibition showcases allegorical representations of power, resistance and sexual violence; it looks at the struggle for access to artistic education; representations of women’s bodies and erotic desires; iconography of motherhood and reproductive choice; women’s agency in times of war; and how the role of women in society changes dramatically in times of upheaval. “The Woman Question 1550–2025” brings together works by almost 150 women artists, divided into nine thematic sections.

Curator: Alison M. Gingeras.Cooperation: Ewa Klekot, Beata Purc.

More: https://artmuseum.pl/en/exhibitions/the-woman-question-1550-2025