Tagged: Museum Sztuki

The 1982 Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles

Agnieszka Pindera, ed., The 1982 Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2024) 447 pp.

With refreshing frankness, The 1982 Cultural Exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles announces its subject with its title. In the early 1980s, artists working in Poland and the United States exchanged artworks to become part of the collections of the Museum of Art in Łódź (Muzeum Sztuki) and the newly opened Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), respectively. Fourteen artists primarily based in Warsaw and associated with the Foksal Gallery represented Poland by sending works to the newly opened Museum … Read more

Room within the Henryk Stażewski exhibition displaying works of sculpture and graphic design.

New approaches to art and life in the Polish People’s Republic: Henryk Stażewski at Muzeum Sztuki

Henryk Stażewski (1894-1988) had a long artistic run in two different versions of his home country: first as a pioneer of the avant-garde in the Polish Republic between 1918 and 1939 and then his later, but no less experimental career in the communist Polish People’s Republic founded in the post-war world order after 1945. It is the latter that is the subject of the exhibition Henryk Stażewski: Late Style at the Muzeum Sztuki Lodz – to many known as a legendary institution with a pedigree as an avant-garde museum (including the colorful interior of the Neo-Plastic Room for abstract art) … Read more