3 September 2026–31 January 2027
The exhibition is a multi-part, site-specific installation combining sculpture and textiles, created especially for the Palace Museum, which is housed in the building that formerly served as the Gestapo headquarters in Zakopane – a particularly traumatic site of remembrance on the map of the town and the region.
The artist returns to her earlier works, which addressed the genocide of the Roma and Sinti. However, this is the first time she has so openly discussed her own family’s history and that of other Carpathian Roma during the Second World War in territories occupied by the Third Reich. In this sense, The Forest Is Singing is the artist’s most personal and „Podhale-inspired” exhibition to date. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas recounts her family’s traumatic history while simultaneously questioning how history is constructed. She reveals places where history falls silent, where the narrative unravels and where there is a need to recount the past differently.
The Forest Is Singing is the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Zakopane.
