Moving Imageincluding works by Michał Budny
Museum Group Exhibition
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Warsaw
Poland
8 Nov 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Moving Image, an exhibition that marks the 25th anniversary of the ING Polish Art Foundation, explores the very act of collecting art. Instead of just looking at it as the simple activity of gathering works of art, however, it approaches this pursuit as a gesture towards future generations. Any collection – be it of visual art, poems, or shells picked up on the shore – carries an inherent promise of bestowal. For the collection built by the ING Polish Art Foundation, that commitment is enshrined in its Charter: if the Foundation ceases to exist, its entire collection will be passed on to the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, thus becoming part of the shared legacy, secured in law. The exhibition poses a seemingly simple question: How does one inherit heritage? The answers lie in the ever-growing body of works collected by the Foundation, shown here as a vehicle of culture, a portrait of the last twenty-five years. Composed of individual fragments, it encompasses the hopes, values, and beliefs of that period. After all, it is the works of art that will shape how future generations perceive the culture of today. At the exposition, selected works from the collection of the ING Polish Art Foundation are presented alongside items loaned from artists that cooperate with the Foundation, as well as from various other institutions and collections. This is an opportunity to look at them in a broader context – also in the light of the question about the limits of ownership and the impact that institutions have on the significance of art in public life.
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- Daniel Rumiancew
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