{"id":11873,"date":"2025-10-29T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herito.pl\/?p=11873"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:40:18","slug":"exhibition-black-carnival-ensor-wojtkiewicz-at-the-national-museum-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herito.pl\/en\/ahice-en\/exhibition-black-carnival-ensor-wojtkiewicz-at-the-national-museum-in-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition &#8220;Black Carnival. Ensor\/Wojtkiewicz&#8221; at the National Museum in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"txtblock wow fadeIn\" data-wow-delay=\"0.2s\">\r\n    <div class=\"container\">\r\n        <div class=\"row\">\r\n            <div class=\"col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-lg-10 offset-lg-1\">\r\n        <h1 class=\"wow fadeInUp\" data-wow-delay=\"0.2s\">Art and Heritage in Central Europe<\/h1>            <div class=\"txt wow fadeInUp\" data-wow-delay=\"0.3s\"><p>The exhibition confronts the works of two significant artists from the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century. It explores themes of the masquerade, the theatre, the circus, dreams, eroticism and death. Known for their penchant for fantasy, irony and the grotesque, the two painters were deeply rooted in their respective cultures and art circles: the modernist milieus of the Young Belgium and the Young Poland. Ensor evoked the traditions of Dutch art, with its bawdy humour, defiance and didacticism, of folk theater troupes and of the animated street carnivals of Flanders. Wojtkiewicz, submerged in a world of fairytales and dreamlike visions, drew from phenomena such as the cabaret, the comedy theatre Zielony Balonik and Krak\u00f3w\u2019s folk nativity scenes (szopka).<\/p>\n<p>NMW offers a playful juxtaposition of these two individuals, who are usually treated as peculiar, isolated cases. The idea of the carnival represents life-as-spectacle, the world turned upside-down, madness, anarchy, chaos, a freedom from norms and conventions. The exhibition is organized by key themes that correspond to major areas in Ensor\u2019s and Wojtkiewicz\u2019s imaginaria, and visualize universal problems in turn-of-the-century art, literature and theatre: &#8220;Bohemianism&#8221;; &#8220;Masqueraders of the Abyss\u2014the Carnival, the Theatre, the Circus&#8221;; &#8220;Fairytales and Childhood Fantasies&#8221;; &#8220;Thanatos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black Carnival. Ensor\/Wojtkiewicz&#8221; is NMW\u2019s first exhibition based on a Polish\u2013Belgian partnership. For context, we will also present marionettes, masks and carnival costumes as well as paintings, drawings and prints by other Polish and Belgian artists who were the two protagonists\u2019 contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>Curators:Joanna Kilian, Agnieszka Lajus, Kamilla Pijanowska-Badysiak (The National Museum in Warsaw)<br \/>\nHerwig Todts (the Royal Museum of Fine Arts \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kmska.be\/en\/homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antwerphet Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is available from 3 October 2025 to 11 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnw.art.pl\/en\/temporary-exhibitions\/black-carnival-ensorwojtkiewicz,69.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mnw.art.pl\/en\/temporary-exhibitions\/black-carnival-ensorwojtkiewicz,69.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,65],"tags":[685,974,50,717,112,424],"class_list":["post-11873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ahice-en","category-exhibitions","tag-ahice","tag-central-europe-en-2","tag-exhibition","tag-mnw","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exhibition &quot;Black Carnival. 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