Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, who represented Poland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, will present a large-scale textile work inspired by the collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. A monumental tapestry (ca. 425 x 600 cm) entitled Sawore, sawore, sawore (Everything, everything, everything), made with Mirga-Tas’ signature technique, will be hung in the museum’s gallery of 16th-century tapestries from Brussels. With this artistic intervention, Mirga-Tas rewrites art history by redefining the role and representation of the Romani community in European visual culture.

Commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the piece will draw on themes of animals, plants, and the history of the Roma in European art, engaging in a dialogue with the museum’s collection while offering a contemporary perspective. Curated by Wojciech Szymański.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is known for her innovative approach to historical artworks, not just quoting them but reinterpreting them to question the marginal position of the Romani in European art history. She has previously done this with Jacques Callot’s 17th-century prints (Out of Egypt, 2021) and frescoes from the Palazzo Schifanoia (Re-enchanting the World, Venice Biennale, 2022), among others. Her recent work at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, where she created a new interpretation of Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano, also follows this tradition of artistic reinterpretation.

Exhibition of work by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas in Royal Museum of Art and History
9 May – 30 June 2025
Royal Museum of Art and History
Brussels

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute in collaboration with the Polish Institute Brussels