Free Admission
June 28, 2026, 4pm
Gerichtstraße 35
Berlin 13347
Germany
Please join us at in Berlin at MISS READ, hosted at silent green, on June 28th at 4pm for a conversation between Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Polska, on the occasion of the launch of Theory of Seeing, the first English translation of a radical and influential theory of art by Władysław Strzemiński.
After World War II, socialist realism became the official state doctrine of art in Poland, with abstract works deemed counterrevolutionary and forbidden from public view. Władysław Strzemiński, a leader of the Polish constructivist avant-garde, developed a treatise of visual consciousness as a foundation for progressive art, emphasizing art’s autonomy. His application of Marxist aesthetics to the physiology of seeing is expressed in Theory of Seeing, which was published posthumously in 1958 by his students from notes collected from his lectures.
Preceding the comparable perspectives developed by Jacques Rancière, David Hockney, and John Berger, and even the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard, Strzemiński’s Theory of Seeing introduces the radical and groundbreaking ideas of one of Poland’s most important artists to English-speaking audiences for the first time.
Theory of Seeing is co-published by e-flux and Muzeum Sztuki and printed and distributed by University of Minnesota Press. The translation is by Klara Kemp-Welch and Wanda Kemp-Welch. e-flux’s table at the Miss Read book fair will be selling copies of Theory of Seeing alongside our entire catalogue of books and e-flux Index. The fair runs from June 26-28. For more details, please visit Miss Read's website here.
