Gifts of Friendship presents nearly 150 works donated to the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź collection in 2024–26 by eighty artists from dozens of countries. Their gesture allows us to reflect on the significance of artist solidarity in the modern world and the relations between the art scene and the public museum. It emphasizes the role of trust, friendship, and community based on long-term collaboration as forces shaping the institutional collection.
The “gift economy” builds human relationships, but is also an obligation. It is giving, receiving, and reciprocating. These three categories are inextricably linked. The Gifts of Friendship creates a multidimensional portrait of the museum, conceived not as a neutral repository of objects, but as a living network of art exchange.
Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the “Gifts of Friendship” exhibition at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. The exhibition will be open from May 15th, 2026.
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Wilhelm Sasnal, Koreks, 2015, HD 1544 x 1080 – 300dpi, movie still -
Ghislaine Leung, Parents, 2019, courtesy of the artist and Maxwell Graham Gallery in New York, exhibition view CONSTITUTION, Chisenhale Gallery in London, photo by Andy Keate -
Liam Gillick, Curator B+-, 2023 -
Nikita Kadan, The Project with Postponed Implementation, documentation of exhibition The Fire and the Ashes, Nikita Kadan , 07.10.2022 – 12.03.2023, photo by Anna Zagrodzka, Archive of the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź -
R.H. Quaytman, Ch3 Optima Typewriter, 2004, 20x32in
