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Building Memory. Bałka, Bartana, Narkevicius, Odenbach.

16.03.10 - 23.05.10

ms, 36 Więckowskiego Street

Is historical memory permanent? Every annual commemoration of the beginning of the Second World War is a heated test of modernity with returning questions of presence, avoidance and acknowledgment of guilt. Architecture is a special carrier of history creating the structures of space, power and memory. Building Memory is a video art project in which four artists: Mirosław Bałka, Yael Bartana (Israel), Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania) and Marcel Odenbach (Germany) refer to the problem of places marked by history: buildings, monuments and other silent witnesses of the dramatic events of the last seventy years.

Before the vernissage, at 5 p.m., a meeting and discussion with the artists will be held.
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Mirosław Bałka, capture from Audi HBE F114, 2008.

Modernizations 1918-1939. The Future Perfect

11.03.10 - 30.05.10

ms², 19 Ogrodowa Street
curator: Andrzej Szczerski

In the interwar period an attempt was made to build a modernistic Mid-Eastern Europe made up of independent countries, trying to find a place for them within the centre of civilization. Although it was never completed the interwar period created the bases for a new identity of the region, questioning the thesis of its marginal importance for the “modern era”. The most important of modernization within visual arts, architecture and design affirming their significance for shaping the modern face of „New Europe” will be presented in the Museum of Art.

A guide to the Collection of 20th and 21st Century Art

3600 m² is a space where it is easy to get lost without a companion, especially if it is the Collection of Art of 20th and 21st century space. Museum of Art in Lodz makes an effort to meet the – frequently helpless – recipients’ needs and gives them a pocket-sized map - A guide to to the Collection of 20th and 21st Century Art. The small book in, on the one hand, a guide to the Museum and a 3600 m² space to be carried in a pocket on the other.

Ausstellung Laibach Kunst. Rekapitulacja/Recapitulation 2009. The catalogue

A new Museum of Art publication related to the exhibition Austellung Laibach Kunst (curators: Wiktor Skok and Krzysztof Lach) has been published: a catalogue which can be purchased via the Museum’s Internet website, in bookstores mała litera art in ms² and Serenissima in ms.

Bliżej sztuki – closer to art – three ms club Membership Cards

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 Museum of Art 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.

Museo Libre! European Museum Card

If you are: a student, under 26., intrested in art, keen on visiting Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz and other european museums, than Museo Libre! European Museum Card is made for you!

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