Robert Dobrzycki Foundation x Museum of Modern Art

The next project of the Foundation is a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. With the charity’s support, a large painting entitled ‘Jars 2024’ by Karolina Jabłońska, a painter from the younger generation, is to be on permanent display in the Museum’s new building.

Karolina Jabłońska (born in 1991) is an award-winning artist of the younger generation from Kraków. She paints portraits of women in seemingly mundane situations. They reflect the artist’s internal disquiet, which is a reaction to the politicised reality that surrounds us, particularly addressing the challenges faced by contemporary women. Jabłońska’s art is a lively expression of colour that draws in the viewer. Her pictures refer to the works of Henri Rousseau, Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin.

The painting will be composed of four 250 cm x 190 cm panels to create a tetraptych of 250 cm x 760 cm. It is to be composed in such a way that it can be displayed with each panel forming a corner or in a single line.

‘Jars 2024’ will in a visual layer refer to the latest work of Jabłońska, the dominant motifs of which are the kitchen, cooking, jams and pickles. Simple associations and foods that we all know are a lure for the public but underneath the everyday scenes hide sociological metaphors, camouflaged front page news and the artist’s own musings.
This work is certain to become a strong symbol and a recognisable artistic work for the city’s public space with the opening to all of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from October 2024.