Opening Friday, November 21
Francesca Woodman in The Woman Question 1550-2025
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
On view through May 3, 2026

Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, this exhibition brings together nearly 200 works that defy the myth of women’s absence from art history. Spanning 500 years—from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th century—it offers a powerful visual history of women’s centuries-long "emancipation." The title, Woman Question, references a phrase that began as a coded refrain in debates over women’s subjugation and later became a rallying cry for revolutionary and suffragist movements.

Photographs by Francesca Woodman will be on view alongside works by Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Françoise Gilot, Guerrilla Girls, Tracey Emin, among others. Four photographs by Woodman are included in the section “Surreal Self, Mystical Me: Symbolism, Surrealism, and Mysticism,” where artists subvert photography’s conventional ties to realism and documentation through staged mise-en-scènes and photocollages. An accompanying publication will be forthcoming in January 2026.

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