The exhibition Don’t Ask About Poland, presented at the Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń, offers a comprehensive overview of Polish art from the 20th and 21st centuries, based on the collection of Katarzyna and Wojciech Szafrański. The exhibition forms a multilayered reflection on history, national identity, and the social experience of recent decades, conveyed through the works of artists with strong and often ambiguous voices.

Among the works on display are pieces by key figures of 20th-century Polish art, including Henryk Stażewski, Andrzej Wróblewski, Tadeusz Kantor, Wojciech Fangor, Maria Jarema, and Jadwiga Maziarska. Their works are presented alongside expressive pieces from the 1980s by artists such as Ryszard Grzyb, Edward Dwurnik, and Jarosław Modzelewski, as well as iconic examples of 1990s critical art by Zbigniew Libera, Joanna Rajkowska, and Artur Żmijewski. The voice of the youngest generation of female artists is represented by Karolina Jabłońska, Martyna Czech, Ewa Juszkiewicz, and Agata Kus.

The exhibition’s curator, Marta Smolińska, brings together different generations and artistic strategies into a moving narrative about Poland – as a space of tensions, memory, and resistance.

Exhibition on view from 21 February to 25 May 2025
Curator: Marta Smolińska
Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń
Wały gen. Sikorskiego 13, Toruń
https://csw.torun.pl