Encounters with art

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition. After looking at the work, everyone will make their “impression”, write a poem, make a small artistic action. Each of the participants will receive a red folder with 10 boxes (1 cardboard box for each meeting) and in this way they will be able to create their own booklet, a personal diary of their experiences with contact with the works from the exhibition.

Where: ms2, ul. Ogrodowa 19

When: Selected Saturdays of the month.

For whom: For the curious of modern art

Conducted by: Małgorzata Wiktorko - curator of the Museum of Art in Łódź. He conducts lectures and workshops for high school youth and adults. It guides diverse groups through permanent and temporary exhibitions. Organizes so-called chamber tours for small groups. Juror in art history competitions for elementary and high school youth. President of the Society of Friends of the Museum of Art in Łódź.

October 17, 2026 (Saturday), 12.30

Joanna Rajkowska (b. 1968) Walls that look

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Joanna Rajkowska is the recipient of the Katarzyna Kobro Prize awarded at the Museum of Art in Łódź, in 2025;

21 November 2026 (Saturday), 12.30

Roman Opalka (1931-2011) Reversible time, Irreversible time

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

The Museum of Art in Łódź is the lucky owner of Detail No. 1 from a series of paintings numbered “Opałka 1965/1 - ∞”.

28 November 2026 (Saturday), 12.30

Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973), fragment of Alina Szapocznikow's letter to Ryszard Stanisławski from 1949

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of sculptor Alina Szapocznikow. The artist strongly felt the experiences of carnal passing and stopping of the moment in the form of casts of her own body;

12 December 2026 (Saturday), 12.30

Władysław Strzeminski (1893-1952) “Commentary on the painting Still Life from 1929”

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Władysław Strzeminski in his work Theory of Vision analyzed the “visual content” of the image, changes in perception, changes in the ways of seeing;

20 February 2027 (Saturday), 12.30

Erna Rosenstein (1913-2004) Pictures Speak

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Erna Rosenstein's work is surrealistically processed images of tragic memories, constantly recurring post-war trauma;

13 March 2027 (Saturday), 12.30 p.m.

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) Painting-drawing

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Tadeusz Kantor creates installations; creatively transforms his own experiences; shows how history influenced his personal fate;

17 April 2027 (Saturday), 12.30

Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957)” Commentary on the Exhibition of Modern Art”

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Andrzej Wróblewski creates paintings with strong expressive colors. His almost realistic representations are simplistic, or they tend to geometrized abstraction. The meanings, beyond what we see, result from the way shapes are combined and the symbolism of colors specific to it;

22 May 2027 (Saturday), 12.30

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1947) Diaries and letters of Käthe Kollwitz, fragm.

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Käthe Kollwitz in her sculpture “Pieta” referred to the theme of Pieta, a frequent depiction in the Middle Ages of the Virgin holding the dead body of Christ on her knees. The sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz is not religious in nature. This is a depiction of a mother holding her son's dead body on her lap. It is a show of the despair of a mother who loses her already grown child in war. This is a kind of protest against the war;

12 June 2027 (Saturday), 12.30

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-19390 The only way out, part.

The workshop will focus on the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”. We meet in the Audiovisual Hall - this is a kind of lecture-seminar. After the meeting in the Audiovisual Hall, we watch part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”.

The subject of reflection, discussion, mutual perception will be one of the texts from the booklet for the exhibition — “Ways of Seeing. Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. Anthology of Texts”. After reading and interacting with each other in the Audiovisual Hall, we move on to a certain part of the exhibition “Ways of Seeing”

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) sought in his art what he described as “pure form”. He wrote theoretical texts, dramas, painted paintings. At some point in his life he took up painting portraits. In his work, an important means of expression was deformation and a way of expressive creation proper only for him.