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The exhibition " Hospitality " is an invitation to reflect on one of the most important concepts shaping contemporary Europe. In the face of current events related to migration, mobility and identity, we ask about the law of hospitality and its role in today's society - about how we accept and treat the Other in the space we consider our own.

Hospitality is not only a friendly gesture of empathy, but also a political and cultural act that reveals complex relationships in both multicultural and homogeneous societies. We address the issue of adapting social, geographical and symbolic spaces such as home, city or country to accept Others. We ask who has the right to occupy them after past conflicts and who is subject to exclusion. We raise the issue of the boundaries of hospitality and openness, the sense of "being at home" and temporariness. Is hospitality today just a gesture of empathy or an unconditional necessity for coexistence? This applies not only to interpersonal relationships, but also to attitudes towards animals, the environment and the planet.

We invite viewers to see if art can be a tool for diagnosing social processes and a place for reflection on the human condition. Works in the form of video installations, objects, photographs or fabrics treat the subject of hospitality as a reflection on forced and optional migrations, identity and the space in which we live, as well as the one we create for others.

The exhibition is intended to encourage a deep look at the mutual relations between art and politics in search of answers to questions about social obligations and the place of aesthetics in the discussion on the right to belong. The selected works open up the field for new interpretations, showing hospitality not only as an attitude, but also as a metaphor 鈥� they reflect contemporary debates on nationalisms, diversity and mutual coexistence.

So we ask the questions: can openness to others be a way to overcome divisions? Who is the benefactor and who is the beneficiary of hospitality? The exhibition is intended to be an invitation to discover the complex, often uncomfortable questions that lie behind the concept of hospitality.

In recent years, the subject of hospitality has been taken up many times, but the exhibition at the National Museum in Gda艅sk fits into this trend as an examination of attitudes of acceptance and isolation based on global and local themes, such as the creation of a community of Gda艅sk residents in the post-war reality. The eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II is a good time to reflect on this topic.