Exchibitions archive

The exhibition project “Beyond Eden” was born with a view to presenting a set of works acquired for the museum’s collection in December 2018. Originally, they made up the Silesian Collection of Contem...

“Weirdo”, “freak”, “misfit”, “lunatic” – such painful terms were directed to the creators to whom the exhibition Biographies (un)authorized has been devoted. The reason why they heard those hurtful wo...

A mysterious place, a gateway to an unknown hermetic world – the world that we know from stories and memories of mine workers, rare photographs and old engravings. This is what a mine can be for many....

"Masterly Narratives. Silesian Masters of Graphics” is an exhibition of artworks created by group of artists associated with Katowice and the history of its Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1929, when they...

On April 24 this year we had the 130th anniversary of birth of the most famous Polish naive painter next to Nikifor: Teofil Ociepka. This date became a pretext for organizing a retrospective exhibitio...

From June 12th to September 5th the Silesian Museum in Katowice will display a board exhibition prepared at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the research ...

Folk woodcut is a little-known and rarely presented field of folk art. It was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries but by the end of the 19th century it had become a “lost art”. Fortunately, the fir...

Fire, earth and air are the contrast to water. (...) The fifth element is man’s ability to fantasize. - Władysław Hasior Such an ability is definitely characteristic of Antoni Toborowicz, one of the ...

Marcin Ryczek’s works are a series of minimalistic and symbolistic photographies. Their main idea is the minimum form and maximum content. The Harmony title refers to the form, content and process...

The “Transport Cases” exhibition presents the works by four artists - Leoš Wertheimer, Henryk Kondratowicz, Piotr Drożdżak and Artur Waszczyński. Their works are linked by their subject and each of th...