Join us for a lecture as part of the “Decades with Art” series, during which we will examine how historic Kraków has changed in photographs. We will consider what photographers chose to capture and what they decided to leave out of the frame, and why. We will also discuss the significance of their work and how it has shaped the city’s collective memory.

31 August 2026, 12.00

From the photographs of Ignacy Krieger and Walery Rzewuski, through the post-war images of Henryk Hermanowicz, to Henryk Makarewicz’s documentation of the newly emerging Nowa Huta – successive generations of photographers not only recorded the changing face of the city, but also created images that, over time, became part of the collective memory.

This lecture, which echoes the exhibition at the ICC Gallery entitled “Save from Oblivion” (29 November 2007 – 3 March 2008), will provide an opportunity to view historical photographs of Kraków. We will treat them as an expression of the city’s memory – suspended between documentation and nostalgia. Photographs of old streets, buildings and residents allow us to trace not only what has disappeared from Kraków, but also the way in which successive eras chose what was worth preserving and what should be left out of the frame.

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”.