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 book accompanies the exhibition Multiverse. Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska, presented in the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław from November 20, 2025 till March 8, 2026.
- Editor: Małgorzata Devosges-Cuber
- Editorial cooperation: Agnieszka Smutek
- Authors of the texts: Małgorzata Devosges-Cuber, Małgorzata Micuła, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, Zofia Reznik
- Text editing and proofreading: Rozalia Radecka
Graphic design and layout: Łukasz Paluch
Publisher: Museum of Architecture in Wrocław
- ISBN: 978-83-65730-37-4
