Lynx x Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. We are a a proud media partner of the “Ways of Seeing. Collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź”

Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the “Ways of Seeing. Collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź”. The exhibition opens on 17 October 2025 at ms².

Ways of Seeing is the new permanent exhibition of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź – a multifaceted narrative about 20th- and 21st-century art and about the museum itself as an institution of artistic experimentation, avant-garde thought, and solidarity.

The exhibiotion focuses on the phenomenon of seeing – both as a biological function and as a cultural and political act. Divided into several thematic chapters, it presents art as a tool of inquiry, posing questions about how and why we look. Among the issues explored are: the relationship between vision and memory, the social contexts of looking, perception as a form of knowledge and a tool of resistance, as well as questions of identity, corporeality, and the sensorial experience of reality.

The title of the exhibition refers to John Berger’s celebrated series Ways of Seeing and Władysław Strzemiński’s Theory of Seeing. Both serve as points of reference grounded in the conviction that looking is never neutral – it is always culturally, historically, and emotionally conditioned.

The exhibition features works by, among others, Katarzyna Kobro, Maria Jarema, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Zofia Rydet, Alina Szapocznikow, R.H. Quaytman, Katja Novitskova, Marysia Lewandowska, Frank Bowling, and Zbigniew Libera. The works are not arranged chronologically. Instead, the exhibition guides visitors through chapters titled after selected works on view, such as Description of a Photograph, Multiple Portrait, Wheel of Acceleration, Superobjects, or A Gaze is a Bridge.