Selected works from the exhibition 'The future will be different. Visions and practices of social modernisation after 1918'. Exhibition on view until 27 May 2018, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.
The narrative of the exhibition is determined by the modernising social ideas shaped in Poland after the First World War or put into practice through institutions and organisations whose establishment was linked to the restoration of independence. Although these ideas are part of a broader trend of social and moral transformations in post-war Europe, the situation of rebuilding both statehood after more than a century of absence on the political map of the world, and the identity of a society hitherto divided by partitions and stratified by poverty and backwardness, provided a particularly fertile ground for their birth and development.