The body is never neutral – it is a site of tension, pleasure, and suffering. The exhibition Body. Pain and Pleasure explores physicality as a source of contradictions, emotions, and memories. It brings together works by four outstanding artists – Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Barbara Falender, and Chloe Piene. Despite representing different generations and backgrounds, they are united by their courage to redefine beauty and to uncover the intimate iconography of the body: fragile, vulnerable, yet deeply sensual.

The featured works address themes of pain, ecstasy, eroticism, motherhood, illness, and death. Bourgeois and Szapocznikow drew upon personal trauma, creating objects charged with existential tension, while Falender and Piene turn to eroticism and sensory intensity. Body. Pain and Pleasure offers an immersive aesthetic experience that compels us to confront questions about physicality – both our own and that of others.

Curator: Paulina Olszewska

Partners: DESA Unicum, Galeria Studio w Warszawie, Galerie Loevenbruck Paris, The Easton Foundation, Omega Medical Clinics, Puszman

Media Partners: Newsweek, Wysokie Obcasy, SZUM, Vogue Living , Girls and Queers To The Front

Exhibition Opening Partner: CUDO Kombucha

As part of the V4 AbstrACTION Interactive project, Krupa Art Foundation invites children aged 5–12 to an exceptional exhibition inspired by Central European abstraction. Here, art meets technology, and children not only encounter works of art but also become their co-creators. An educational programme will accompany the exhibition, showing how contemporary art can engage, entertain, and nurture creativity.

Selected works from the collection of Piotr and Sylwia Krupa will enrich the exhibition, serving as commentary on collaboration and expanding its context. These carefully chosen pieces will introduce young visitors to diverse interpretations of abstraction, revealing the wide spectrum of artistic approaches in Central Europe. Participants will have the chance not only to see art but to experience it more profoundly, linking theory with practice and tradition with modernity. Works from the Krupas’ collection will deepen the narrative, encouraging children to engage in creative exploration and develop their own artistic sensibilities.

Curator: Monika Łuszpak-Skiba

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Can a world free of exclusion and rich in diversity be created? The exhibition Utopias of the Present considers this question through the works of two artists,  Maciej Nowacki and Jaanus Samma. Through painting, installations, and video, they bring forward narratives long pushed to the margins – queer micro-histories, intimacy, and relationships. Their practice resists conservative frameworks while seeking to build new models of community. Utopias of the Present becomes a laboratory of imagination – a space for dialogue, inclusion, and shared reflection.

Curator: Romuald Demidenko

Exhibition opening: Friday, October 9, 2025

Media partners: Girls and Queers To The Front, SZUM, Going.More