MO Facebook LIVE: Talk with the curator Anda Rottenberg

We are very much looking forward to inviting you to see the most ambitious project of MO Museum so far – the exhibition “A Difficult Age. Szapocznikow – Wajda – Wróblewski “. It will be open from March 20.

And in order to talk more about both the artists and topics of the exhibition, we invite you to a virtual talk with the curator of the exhibition, the legendary Polish art critic Anda Rottenberg. Former director of the Polish National Gallery “Zacheta”, author of several books, culture editor of “Vogue Polska” magazine, A. Rottenberg is also an active participant in civic initiatives. She also joined the ongoing mass protests for women’s rights in Poland.

We will present the exhibition March 17, 17:30. A live talk with the curator A. Rottenberg will begin at 18:00. During it, we will learn how unique the artists presented in the exhibition are: film director Andrzej Wajda, sculptor Alina Szapocznikow and painter Andrzej Wróblewski. We will also examine the topic of a difficult age that holds many meanings. It is both a difficult and tragic period of war, and one of the most important and difficult periods of human maturation – adolescence.

This exhibition marks a historic moment by representing painter Andrzej Wróblewski at MO Museum who was born and raised in Vilnius.

The live talk will be in English and will be streamed live on MO’s Facebook account. Join it here:

If you want to watch with the Lithuanian translation, we invite you to watch live talk on MO Museum’s YouTube account. We will share the link in the near future.

What will you hear?

17:30 Exhibition presentation 

Milda Ivanauskienė, Director of MO Museum
Katarzyna Mitroviĉ, Spokesperson of Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Maciej Radziwiłł

18:00 live talk with the curator Anda Rottenberg
The conversation will be moderated by art historian Laima Kreivytė

“A Difficult Age. Szapocznikow – Wajda – Wróblewski” presents the work of Poland’s most prominent and widely acclaimed post-war artists: film director Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016), conceptual sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), and painter Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957). The exhibit’s main theme is an exploration of the adolescent experiences endured by these three artists – all born in the same period and all having lost a parent early in life – and the impact of these events on their work. The unprecedented scale of brutality committed during the Second World War left a profound mark on the lives of all three artists. The curator of the exhibition, the legendary Polish art historian and curator Anda Rottenberg, reveals how the same symbols and metaphors repeat themselves in different areas of art: painting, cinema, and sculpture.

The exhibition also marks a historic moment by representing painter Andrzej Wróblewski at MO Museum who was born and raised in Vilnius. Wróblewski’s connection to Vilnius and his significance for art in Poland in the latter half of the twentieth century became the main reason for the organization of this exhibition at MO Museum.

The exhibition is conceived as a variation of the exhibition “Perspective of Adolescence. Szapocznikow – Wróblewski – Wajda”, which took place in the summer of 2018 at the Silesian Museum in Katowice.

The exhibition is organized together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. Special thanks to the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation and the custodians of Alina Szapocznikow’s legacy – the artist’s son Piotr Stanislawski, Galerie Loevenbruck and the Hauser & Wirth Gallery.

The exhibition is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the international cultural programme coordinated by Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022.