MAY 10, 2025 – JUNE 08, 2025

The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad is an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, presenting dematerialized artworks (performances, protocols, films, and sound pieces) from the collections of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the Kontakt Collection in Vienna. The exhibition aims to offer a different historical framework for performative practices by tracing their origins to the ancient philosophical school of Cynicism. Structured like a score, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, its divided into five themes that relate to the philosophy of the Cynics.

From May 19 to 25, 2025, Georgia Sagri’s SALOON: There Is No Country In Our Hearts (2014) will be presented in the museum’s auditorium. The film gathers the full documentation of a four-part performance series presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, incorporating texts in the form of subtitles, art works of the museum’s collection and of the invited artists as well as diagrams that emerged during the film’s editing process. The film is not just a documentation of a performance but a promotion of SALOON – a nomadic curatorial project started in 2009, engaging with themes of movement, flee, and deterritorialization. SALOON (2009-on going) is driven by a need for enjoyment and constant change, and by a questioning of what kinds of social grounds can be created when distinctions such as passive/active or inside/outside are suspended.