29 June, 12:00
How did photography change the way we view the world? Why did artists of the interwar period reject traditional forms of representation and seek new means of expression? During the next lecture in the ‘Decades with Art’ series, devoted to Polish and German photographic experiments, we will explore the most fascinating developments in photography of the 1920s and 1930s and their influence on modern art.
In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became one of the most important media of modernity. Artists associated with the Neues Sehen (lit. ‘new vision’) movement rejected traditional modes of representation, experimenting with perspective, light, photomontage and unexpected framing.
Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk’s lecture will revisit the exhibition ‘More than Bauhaus. German photography between the wars and Polish parallels, highlighting the most fascinating developments in interwar German photography – cultivated, amongst other places, within the Bauhaus circle – and their influence on the artistic explorations of that period.
Lecture from the series “Decades with Art” – practical information:
The meeting will be held online via the Zoom platform.
Participation in the lecture is free of charge.
To receive a link to the meeting, please send your application to: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl
The lecture will be held in Polish.
Host:
Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. Studied art history at Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary study program Environment-Technology-Society (UJ). Author of scholarly articles on 20th century art and architecture and publications in exhibition catalogs and journals. Co-editor of an anthology of “image/body texts” and publication “Composing Space. Sculptures of the avant-garde”. Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program “Exercising Modernity” (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis being prepared at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.
The series is under the auspices of the magazine “Głos Seniora”.
