An exhibition devoted to the interwar period in Poland, with a narrative built around the key social ideas that were born after the country regained its independence in 1918. The modernizing ideas, focusing around the needs of previously underprivileged social groups — women, children, workers and ethnic minorities — will be shown through the perspective of the broadly understood visual culture of this time (from architecture and design to the most modern medium of the time, film).

This exhibition has been put together primarily for children and parents, as well as those who do not feel comfortable in contemporary art galleries. It is intended to encourage those who do not understand modern art, or are ashamed to admit it.

This exhibition is one of the events accompanying the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It will present the works of the Faculty’s founders: Jerzy Sołtan, Lech Tomaszewski, and Andrzej Jan Wróblewski.

The project Amplifying Nature is based on the premise that architecture is part of processes occurring on a planetary scale. According to the authors of the exhibition—curator Anna Ptak and architects Małgorzata Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis of the CENTRALA collective—it serves not only to offer protection from nature, but is inherently connected with phenomena such as gravitation, water circulation, or the day-night cycle.

I create spatial objects and installations. I also work with paintings, artistic graphics and designs. My abstract objects are open to a variety of levels of interpretation. I am interested in the imperceptible, illogical reality, superfluousness and surrounding environment. I am occupied with time, movement and matter. My works do not contain any unambiguity, since I care more about the questions than the answers.

This will be the retrospective presentation of the rich heritage of the Japanese artist Koji Kamoji, who has been living and working in Poland since the 1960s. It comprises paintings, drawings, installations, spatial objects (including minimalist and ascetic works), as well as abstract compositions. Over the years, by carefully selecting the subject matter of his works  Kamoji has developed a catalogue of his favourite and most important motifs.