{"id":32848,"date":"2026-04-02T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/activity\/research-departments\/dzial-sztuki-wspolczesnej\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:39:28","slug":"contemporary-art-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/activity\/research-departments\/contemporary-art-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Art Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Contemporary Art Department features works created between 1914 and the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the works from the interwar period, an important collection comprises works by members of the Formists group, including Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz \u2013 Witkacy, Leon Chwistek, Tytus Czy\u017cewski, Zbigniew Pronaszka and Konrad Winkler. Section II also possesses a reasonably representative collection of Polish Colourism \u2013 both pre-war (works by, among others, Jan Cybis, Hanna Rudzka-Cybis and Zygmunt Waliszewski) and post-war (Artur Nacht-Samborski and J\u00f3zef MNK Czapski).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collection of contemporary Polish painting (post-1945) provides a reasonably comprehensive overview of developments in Polish art during the second half of the 20th century. Artists associated with the Krak\u00f3w Academy of Fine Arts and the Krak\u00f3w art scene are particularly well represented. The collection includes works by artists associated with the Krak\u00f3w Group: Tadeusz Kantor, Jonasz Stern, Maria Jarema, Jerzy Nowosielski, Jerzy Bere\u015b and Adam Marczy\u0144ski. A striking addition is a unique group of monumental paintings and sculptures linked to the 1975 exhibition \u2018To See and to Understand\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department\u2019s collection features a significant body of work by artists of the MNK Arsenal generation \u2013 Andrzej Wr\u00f3blewski, Jan Tarasin, Jan Szancenbach, Andrzej Strumi\u0142\u0142o and Jan Lebenstein. Members of the Wprost group are well represented: Leszek Sobocki, Maciej Bieniasz, Zbylut Grzywacz and Jacek Walto\u015b. A significant place is occupied by a collection of works by artists now classified as part of the \u201cGeneration of the 80s\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A significant part of the collection is devoted to the Krak\u00f3w School of Graphic Art, which includes not only prints on paper but also plates, amongst which are Jerzy Panek\u2019s woodcuts. Other artists represented in the collection include Mieczys\u0142aw Wejman, Andrzej Pietsch, Zbigniew Lutomski and Ryszard Otr\u0119ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000\u20132001, the modern art collection was expanded to include works by the \u0141adnie Group, and in subsequent years, following the opening of the permanent Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art, it has been further expanded to include representative examples of contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head: Magdalena Czubi\u0144ska<\/strong> mczubinska@mnk.pl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Contemporary Art Department features works created between 1914 and the present day. Among the works from the interwar period, an important collection comprises works by members of the Formists group, including Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz \u2013 Witkacy, Leon Chwistek, Tytus Czy\u017cewski, Zbigniew Pronaszka and Konrad Winkler. Section II also possesses a reasonably representative collection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":24032,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32850,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32848\/revisions\/32850"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}