CURATORIAL GUIDED TOUR/Sculpture on the wall

11.00 a.m.
visiting the exhibition [Sculpture on a Meblościanka] (https://krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl/wystawy/rzezba-na-mebloscianke,203.html) accompanied by its curator, Kai Muszyńska

Ceramic penguins, monkeys, strongmen and sex bombs adorned furniture walls in Polish apartments for almost the entire period of the Polish People's Republic. These unique porcelain “chamber sculptures” made a splash abroad and still delight design lovers to this day.
Their designs were developed in the mid-1950s at the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw by a team of designers, which included: Henryk Jędrasiak, Mieczysław Naruszewicz, Hanna Orthwein and Lubomir Tomaszewski.

The exhibition will be guided by exhibition curator Kaja Muszyńska.

Deadline: 16 August 2026, 11 a.m. (approx. 75 min.)
Rules of participation: [tickets 15 and 10 zł online] (https://bilety.mnw.art.pl/termin.html?idl=3&idg=16&idw=986) and at the box office (from Tuesday 2 weeks before the event)/limited number of participants
Place: Xavier Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in Królikarnia/collection before the entrance to the exhibition

Kaja Muszyńska — curator at the Design Collections and co-curator of the Polish Design Gallery at MNW, specializes in Polish design and applied art, takes care of the ceramics collection. Author of publications on ceramics, illustrations and the history of design. Curator and co-curator of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including “Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces” at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. Member of ICOM DESIGN and ICOM DESIGN Council (2022—2025). It promotes knowledge of Polish design through lectures, guided tours and cooperation with cultural institutions.

Sculptural object used in the illustration: proj. Mieczysław Naruszewicz, Gil, 1959, glazed porcelain, painted, National Museum in Warsaw © Institute of Industrial Design