Decades with art

The series of lectures titled „Decades with Art” is an original selection of topics which are inspired by the past exhibitions organised at the International Cultural Centre. For more than thirty years the Gallery of the ICC at the Main Square in Krakow has presented art, architecture, and culture of Central Europe.

Meetings are held in Polish, on-line via Zoom platform every last Monday of the month at 12.00.

Participation in lectures is free.

To receive a link to participate, please send an application to the following e-mail address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl.

January 26, 2026, 12.00

“Wooden skyscrapers. The wooden revolution in 21st-century cities”

A lecture accompanying the exhibition “Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 2005–2010”

February 23, 2026, 12.00

“Aesthetics as politics. The poster as a tool of opposition, solidarity, and resistance”

Lecture accompanying the exhibition “Posters Against War” (August 25–September 14, 2023)

March 30, 2026, 12.00

“Bauhaus and National Socialism”

Lecture accompanying the exhibition “Hunting down Modernism. The Prohibited Arts in the Third Reich” (October 19, 2011–January 29, 2012)

April 27, 2026, 12.00

“Masters of Polish Contemporary Illustration”

Lecture recalling the exhibition “Artists and Masterpieces of Illustration. The Most Beautiful Illustrations of the Last 50 Years” (June 4-30, 2017)

May 25, 2026, 12.00

“Quotation, Context, Memory. Romuald Loegler and Postmodernism in Polish Architecture”

A lecture recalling the exhibition “Romuald Loegler. Dialogue with Time and Place” (January 19–February 7, 1999)

June 29, 2026, 12.00

“New Vision – Polish and German photographic experiments of the interwar period”

Lecture commemorating the exhibition “More than Bauhaus. German photography between the wars and Polish parallels” (May 8, 2021–August 1, 2021)

July 27, 2026, 12.00

“Jan Vermeer and the Secrets of His Art”

A lecture recalling the exhibition “Jan Vermeer. ‘Saint Praxedes’” (September 5–9, 1991)

August 31, 2026, 12.00

“The city that no longer exists. Krakow and photography: between documentary and nostalgia”

A lecture recalling the exhibition “Saved from oblivion” (November 29, 2007–March 3, 2008)

September 21, 2026, 12.00

“Made in Scandinavia. From Alvar Aalto to Ikea”

A lecture recalling the exhibition “The Logic of Locality. Norwegian and Polish contemporary design” (December 17, 2016–March 26, 2017)

October 26, 2026, 12.00

“CIAM – Networks of Architecture, Networks of Friends”

A lecture recalling the exhibition “Years of Disarray. Art of the Avant-Garde in Central Europe 1908-1928” (March 8, 2019–June 9, 2019)

November 30, 2026, 12.00

“Between documentary and propaganda. Photographs from the time of regaining independence”

Lecture recalling the exhibition “Fotoblok. Central Europe in Photobooks” (November 22, 2019-March 1, 2020)

December 14, 2026, 12.00

“Woman, artist, mother. Social roles and stereotypes through the eyes of 20th-century female artists”

Lecture accompanying the exhibition “A Woman's work is never done” (April 26, 2013–August 11, 2013)

Chairing:

Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, PhD – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary studies programme Environment-Technologie-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of scientific articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and publications in exhibition catalogs and magazines. Co-editor of an anthology of texts obraz/ciało and the publication "Composing space. Avant-garde sculptures". Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program "Exercising Modernity" (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

For more details please contact us at: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl or by calling +48 12 42 42 860.

“Głos senior” provides a media patronage.

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