{"id":35113,"date":"2026-08-11T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wystawy\/projektowanie-w-europie-srodkowej-1945-1989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:59:28","slug":"projektowanie-w-europie-srodkowej-1945-1989","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wystawy\/projektowanie-w-europie-srodkowej-1945-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Designland. Design in Central Europe, 1945\u20131989"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The ICC invites you to an extraordinary exhibition showcasing post-war design. We will be displaying both iconic designs and lesser-known works, highlighting the figures of designers \u2013 both men and women \u2013 and letting the objects speak for themselves. Through them, we will trace the history of social aspirations, political tensions and the realities of the Cold War era.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-war design is attracting growing interest\u2014not only among researchers, but also among collectors and wider audiences. An increasing number of scholarly publications, together with the presence of post-war everyday objects in popular culture, clearly reflects this renewed attention. Yet exhibition projects that present the phenomenon within a broader, translocal context remain scarce. The exhibition currently being developed by the ICC curatorial team seeks to address this gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conceived as a large-scale panorama of post-war Central European design, the exhibition will encompass the Baltic states, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and the countries of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will present both iconic designs and lesser-known works that merit renewed interpretation. At the same time, the exhibition will offer an opportunity to revisit the work of outstanding women and men designers whose achievements remain insufficiently recognised beyond specialist circles. This will not, however, be a conventional design exhibition. Through objects, we aim to tell the history of the region itself: its social ambitions, political tensions, post-war utopias, aspirations towards modernisation, and the realities of Cold War division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening is scheduled for spring 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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dr Monika Rydiger<\/div>\n                                                
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\n                                                    Art historian and critic, curator. She curated or co-curated such exhibitions as Hunting Down Modernism: The Prohibited Arts in the Third Reich (2011), Memory: Registers and Territories (2013), MAKOM. Dani Karavan. The Essence of Place (2015), The Logic of the Local: Norwegian and Polish Contemporary Design (2016). She is a member of the Polish section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), vice president of the Association of Art Historians, Krak\u00f3w Branch. Author of texts on modern and contemporary art, specialising in sculpture and architecture.                                                <\/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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