{"id":34593,"date":"2025-02-05T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wystawy\/koszycka-moderna\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:41:39","slug":"koszycka-moderna","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wystawy\/koszycka-moderna\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko\u0161ice Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The exhibition presented the artistic community of Ko\u0161ice in the 1920s. This phenomenon, known as Ko\u0161ice Modernism, was created both by artists connected with the city on a permanent basis, such as Anton Jaszusch or Kon\u0161tant\u00edn Bauer – and by visit visitors staying there for a few years or even months, for example by Eugen Kr\u00f3n, Franti\u0161ek Folt\u00fdn, G\u00e9za  Schiller, and S\u00e1ndor Bortnyik. Many of them were previously connected with Budapest, Vienna or Berlin scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The context of the place is particularly important for understanding the phenomenon in question. Ko\u0161ice \u2013 a city with a long history and vibrant artistic traditions \u2013 was a space of a various intermingling cultural influences and a city inhabited by Slovak, Hungarian, German, and Jewish population. The nature of the place was conducive to an atmosphere of openness and tolerance, which attracted a large group of artists. With the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic Ko\u0161ice became an important cultural centre and the largest city in the eastern part of the newly created state. An important role in this process was played by the East Slovak Museum and its director, the Czech lawyer Josef Pol\u00e1k, who drew a large group of artists around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1920s, Ko\u0161ice became a space for dialogue for artists driven by diverse impulses and representing different styles. It is the openness, multi-ethnicity and pluralism of the artistic attitudes which best reflects the specific nature of Ko\u0161ice modernism. In their artistic quests the creators frequently used motifs drawn from urban iconography (for example Gejza Schiller, J\u00falius Jakoby), penetrated social issues (Kon\u0161tant\u00edn Bauer), drew visions of the man of the future (Eugen Kr\u00f3n), or took up existential questions (Anton Jaszusch). The exhibition at the ICC Gallery was an invitation to take a close look at this extraordinary patchwork of artistic personalities and hence to discover the unknown face of art from the area of Slovakia and the complexity of Mitteleuropa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The works presented at the exhibition came from public and private collections in Ko\u0161ice, Bratislava, and Pre\u0161ov. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the East Slovak Gallery<\/strong> in Ko\u0161ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The exhibition was held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda and the President of the Slovak Republic Andrej Kiska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n An art historian and chief curator of the Bratislava City Gallery. She studied art history and aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. In previous years, she worked as curator of the 20th-century art collection at the Bratislava City Gallery and as deputy director at the Hungarian Cultural Institute there. She is the author and co-author of several books, monographs, articles and studies on the fine arts in Slovakia and abroad, and organises exhibitions and artistic events for professionals and the general public. She devotes particular attention to research into the life and work of Ladislav Medny\u00e1nszke. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Art historian, curator and writer. She has collaborated with art galleries in Poland and abroad. She works at the ICC in Krakow, where she curated exhibitions such as: \u201dLithuania. Two Centuries of Photography\u201d (2023, with Adam Mazur), \u201dTravelling Images. Ma\u0142gorzata Mirga-Tas\u201d (2022, with Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski), \u201dMore Than Bauhaus. German Photography between the Wars and Polish Parallels\u201d (2021, with Adelheid Komenda, Sebastian Lux and others), \u201dPhotobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks\u201d (Krakow 2019\u20132020, Olomouc 2020, Vilnius 2021; with Adam Mazur, \u0141ukasz Gorczyca), \u201dArchitecture of Independence in Central Europe\u201d (2018\u20132019, with \u0141ukasz Galusek, \u017banna Komar and others). She is currently working on a project about Central European design after 1945. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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