Opening this week at Zachęta — Narodowa Galeria Sztuki in Warsaw, Barbara Kasten: Post-Abstraction is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in this region of Europe. The presentation includes around 100 works in various media, as well as a site-specific intervention in the museum’s stairwell.

The exhibition highlights an important connection to the region for Kasten who, as a Fulbright-Hays scholarship holder in the early 1970s, worked with sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz at the State Higher School of Fine Arts (now the University of Arts) in Poznań. This formative experience working in textile would go on to influence Kasten’s enduring practice, exploring the relationship between object, space, and light through photography and installation.

Curated by Agnieszka Pindera.

Barbara Kasten
Post-Abstraction

13 March–7 June 2026

Zachęta — Narodowa Galeria Sztuki
Plac Małachowskiego 3
Warsaw