WARSAW.- The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection is drawing to a close, and from 2 September The Impermanent will continue, in a revised format, only in the museum’s first-floor galleries. Since the opening on 21 February 2025, the show of works from the MSN Warsaw collection has been viewed by over 180,000 visitors. In total, the museum’s new building has welcomed nearly 600,000 people since it opened in late October 2024. The new arrangement of works from the collection marks the start of the new season at MSN Warsaw. The museum is launching its regular operations, when it will be presenting several exhibitions simultaneously. A rich program of public events and performances is beginning this fall, along with new formats for educational activities. The museum’s publishing house is also preparing to release several new books.

“Soon it will be one year since the opening of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw,” said MSN Warsaw director Joanna Mytkowska. “It has been an incredibly intense time as we have explored together the possibilities of the new museum. The appearance of the new building on the Central Square, next to ul. Marszałkowska, sparked strong emotions. Although many new museums are being built in Warsaw, often in a similar architectural idiom, MSN Warsaw remains at the center of a national debate. Why is this so? MSN Warsaw is privileged to be an institution defining the dynamic change underway in Poland. How modern do we want to be? What is it that we hate about modernity? How tolerant and open can we be? Where are the boundaries defining our community? Through art that beats with the pulse of the contemporary world, we can face these questions calmly and in depth. The Impermanent is built around these issues. The full range of this show of the museum’s collection will remain on view until 31 August, and after that in a slimmed down selection through 5 October on the first floor of the museum.”

FIVE NEW EXHIBITIONS THIS FALL

SALT WAREHOUSE: THIS PLANET IS ALREADY INHABITED
12 SEPTEMBER – 16 NOVEMBER 2025

This exhibition, which will be shown free-of-charge in Gallery A on the ground floor, features “floating artworks” designed and executed by artists, NGOs and collectives belonging to the community of Kraków’s Skład Solny (Salt Warehouse). The community will present itself at MSN Warsaw through the lens of its annual event called the Aquatic Critical Mass. This grass-roots celebration of the Vistula River, held since 2012, involves sailing along the central section of the river as it runs through Kraków (by Wawel and the Old Town) on rafts designed especially for the occasion. Alongside a presentation of physical objects from this happening, This Planet Is Already Inhabited tells the story of the Salt Warehouse community and the solidarity it showed in its victorious battle for this independent space for art.

NEAR EAST, FAR WEST—KYIV BIENNIAL 2025
3 OCTOBER 2025 – 18 JANUARY 2026

The sixth edition of the Kyiv Biennial was prepared by a consortium of curators from L’Internationale, a European confederation of museums, art institutions and universities. It will feature seven specially-commissioned new works, as well as works from the collections of member institutions of L’Internationale and a number of other loans. The artists whose works will be shown include such names as Tolia Astakhishvili, Dana Kavelina, Hito Steyerl, Ali Cherri and Oraib Toukan.

The exhibition takes place in a time of ongoing wars, occupations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s brutal operation in Gaza, and the broader fascist turn in global politics. For many of the participating artists, the violence of war remains a defining context and overarching horizon. Their works show how violence has infiltrated all spheres of life, leading to the degradation of social cohesion and solidarity.

THE WOMAN QUESTION: 1550–2025
21 NOVEMBER 2025 – 4 MAY 2026

This show, organized by the curator and art historian Alison M. Gingeras, confronts the myth of women’s absence from art. The eight-part visual narrative is a testament to the enduring and dynamic creative activity of women artists over the last 500 years. The result is a collection of nearly 200 works, including contemporary art, as well as paintings by Renaissance, Baroque and 19th-century women artists from Artemisia Gentileschi and Angelika Kauffmann to Tamara Łempicka, Frida Kahlo, Marlene Dumas and Yoko Ono—offering a centuries-long visual history of women’s “emancipation.” In addition to presenting the diverse artistic output of women, the exhibition aims to show the power inherent in a new approach to art history—one that demands justice, restores the voices of the “erased,” and leads to a revision of the so called canon.

CITY OF WOMEN
21 NOVEMBER 2025 – 4 MAY 2026

City of Women is an exhibition comprising four parts: From the Gut, curated by Julia Bryan-Wilson; Other Tomorrows, by Michalina Sablik and Vera Zalutskaya; Her Heart, by Karolina Gembara; and Socialism, Feminism and Art: Artistic Celebrations of the International Women’s Year 1975, curated by Wiktoria Szczupacka. This mosaic of different attitudes and esthetics is a testimony to the wealth, diverse traditions, and strength of feminist art, and is presented in parallel with the monumental historical survey The Woman Question: 1550–2025.

CHARITY EXHIBITION AND AUCTION
28 NOVEMBER 2025 – 11 JANUARY 2026

The next edition of a project organized in conjunction with the Association of Friends of MSN Warsaw and the Ocalenie Foundation—a gesture of solidarity from the artistic community and an opportunity to provide real support to persons in a refugee crisis, regardless of race, religion or nationality. At the auction on 7 December 2025, bidders can acquire works by such artists as Zuza Golińska, Liliana Zeic, Paulina Ołowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, Mikołaj Sobczak, Marcin Maciejowski, Nikita Kadan, Kateryna Lysovenko, Edward Dwurnik, and Karol Radziszewski.