Multiverse is a hypothetical collection of all possible universes, encompassing within itself everything else, regardless of time, space, or dimension. As a concept and an imaginative framework, it becomes a lens through which one can read the retrospective story of Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska’s multidimensional artistic practice – an organic system of transformation. A structure that constantly grows, multiplies, branches out, and evolves, embracing a diversity of ideas, media, and techniques, while maintaining its inner coherence and characteristic rhythm.

For over seven decades, Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska’s art has resisted straightforward interpretation and simple categorization. A graduate of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław (diploma in 1956 in architectural painting) and a member of the Grupa Wrocławska (Wroclaw Group) artistic community since 1961, she has remained an independent artist, consistently pursuing her own artistic vision that exists at the crossroads of figuration and abstraction, avant-garde and classicism, realism and the uncanny. Identified primarily as a painter, for decades she has created not only paintings (including architectural works) but also spatial forms, ceramics, drawings, assemblages and collages using her own experimental techniques and materials. The written word also plays an important role in her practice – both as an independent literary form and as a layer of commentary or visual texture within her works.

The exhibition presents a selection of works and projects created from the mid-1950s to the present, tracing the paths and intuitions that have guided the artist through the decades. From her earliest sketches of everyday life to monumental spatial projects – Szpakowska paints life itself – sensual, pulsing with color and diffused light. Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska continues to generate new stories, observing and recording the rhythms and relationships between human and more-than-human beings. She keeps creating ceaselessly. The newest works presented in the exhibition were made in the summer of 2025, during her stay at her summer house in Lasówka, Lower Silesia. The cycle is titled Transformations.

Curator: Małgorzata Devosges-Cuber

• Multiverse. Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska
• Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Bernardyńska 7

Organiser: Museum of Architecture in Wrocław

Patron: FOLTA Foundation | Collection & Muncipality of Wrocław

The exhibition is organized as part of the programme of the 60th anniversary of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state special-purpose fund.