ms², 19 Ogrodowa Street

The pattern of world environmental summits has been one of raised hopes for global action in tackling ecological crisis, followed by disillusionment as dominant political and economic interests reassert themselves to block radical change. Contemporary art’s recent enthusiasm for environmental questions, which peaked during the media hype preceding the Copenhagen Summit, has an instructive prehistory in the interconnection of art and ecology in the 1970s, with the 1972 Stockholm conference slogan ‘only one earth’ a powerful rallying call for artistic collaborations.

In the Summer heat, the Museum invites you to relax for a moment while watching Jean-Luc Godard’s films in the ms yard at 36 Więckowskiego Street.
next film: 13th August, 9 pm. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
During the screenings, drinks will be served by the ms café staff.
Films are distributed by Kino Świat.
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ms, Więckowskiego 36

The point of departure for the exhibition are contemporary changes of labour and production referred to by researches as „post-fordism“ and connected with the development of the global information society and economy based on services and knowledge. This model of economy has extended the traditional borders of productivity by a complex and diverse set of social, intellectual, emotional and communicative processes, thus leading to engagement of workers` and consumers` subjectivity into cycles of production and reproduction of capital beyond fixed hierarchies and categories.

Text on the work by Janek Simon in Nigeria
Roman Dziadkiewicz The History of the Bomb

ms², 19 Ogrodowa Street

Exhibition organized in cooperation with Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach (Germany)

The exhibition at Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz is the first individual presentation of Robert Morris’ works in Poland. The artist, together with Donald Judd, laid the foundations of minimalism, but his equally artistic and theoretical comprehensive oeuvre goes beyond the schematic framework of the movement.

ms Więckowskiego 36

The spaces around the Neoplastic Room begin to successively fill in by works of contemporary artists that find in the Strzemiński’ work moments, which are still worth of confrontation. "Open Composition" - developing around the exhibition Room - inaugurate on 6 july 2010 - the projects created especially for this occasion by Grupa Twożywo and Jaroslaw Fliciński and also works of Daniel Buren, Magdalena Fernandez, Igor Krenz, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Elzbieta Jablonska, and Julita Wojcik.
Neoplastic Room, which is the inspiration and starting point, has been revived to its historical function: became again a place of exhibition of works by Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Berlewi and Theo van Doesburg.

Galerija Škuc, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The project is prepared in cooperation with Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz.

Accretions refers to rhizomatic growth and build up in biological organisms which, if translated into the social world, could be used to imply expansive growth. We appropriate the word as an operational term to both question and intervene into the very construction of aesthetic communities, which is a process of coming together and building up. The starting point of our inquiry is related to artistic sources and references and the ways in which singularity of experience can be shared through a particular presence in specific spatial and temporal configurations of an artistic event. And perhaps the very indeterminacy of these configurations has the potential to bring together an aesthetic community. Thus, the outcome as such cannot be predicted, nor obvious, even for the curators...

Three ms club cards created with three different groups of recipients in mind: this is a proposition of ms club membership programme, created by the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. Having an ms club card guarantees free entrance to permanent and temporary exhibitions in all three museum sites: ms, ms², Herbst Palace, priority of participation in every event organised by the Museum of Art as well as discounts in cafes and bookstores located within its grounds.

We encourage you to watch first films produced by Opus Film especially for Museum of Art. You can soon see films documenting other ms and ms² exhibitions.

Click here to watch a film about the exhibition "Pole, Jew, Artist. Identity and Avant-garde"

Click here to watch a film about the exhibition "Sanja Iveković. Practice makes the master"