Description
The inaugural exhibition of the FOLTA Collection is an invitation to trade perspectives – to look at art not as a collection of individual works, but as a space of relationships, tensions and sensitivities, allowing us to tell of the world anew.
This selection of works from the Ewa and Krzysztof Folta Collection, assembled for over three decades, is not meant to be a cross-section. This is a consciously built story in which various artistic languages, generations and experiences intersect. Works by the various artists sit alongside each other, creating an arrangement in which meanings are not set once and for all – they change depending on how we look, and from what perspective.
The narrative’s point of departure is the perspective of women artists. This organises the space of the exhibition, giving it rhythm and direction. Not as a separate chapter of art history, but as a way of seeing – attentive to what is physical, relational, often overlooked or marginalised. It gives familiar motifs – memory, intimacy, identity or the materiality of the world – new meaning and intensity.
This exhibition asks how pictures, forms and artistic gestures affect the way we understand reality. Is it possible to realign our gaze through art? Does a shift in narrative also mean a change in the experience of the world?
The World Seen Anew does not offer a single answer. It more creates a space in which seeing becomes a process – open-ended, complex and dependent on another person. It is in this relationship, between the work and the viewer, that art begins to work the best.
The World Seen Anew
On the Poetics of Vision in Modern and Contemporary Art in the FOLTA Collection
Curator: Małgorzata Ludwisiak
FOLTA Collection, Wrocław | 05.06.-30.11.2026
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