The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
February 21 – October 5, 2025
The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection is the first exhibition to fully occupy the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw’s acclaimed new building that opened to the public in October 2024. Kiki Kogelnik’s painting Woman and Scissors, 1964, is included in the second chapter of the exhibition: Synthetic Materialities: Body, Commodity and Fetish from the Cold War to the Present. It contains works expressing consumerist desires, a fascination with pop culture, advertising and mass media—not only in societies that experienced the economic boom and the onslaught of consumerism after World War II, but also among the poorer “peripheral” countries of Eastern Europe and the Global South. The exhibition was curated by Sebastian Cichocki, Tomasz Fudala, Magda Lipska, Szymon Maliborski, Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz.