What is the secret of storytelling through images? What forms can such a story take, and how have they evolved over the years? During the next lecture in the Decades with Art series, we will discuss the intersection of art, graphic design and literature—we will delve into the world of contemporary illustration and get to know its creators better.
April 27, 2026, 12.00
What is the secret of storytelling through images? What forms can such a story take, and how have they evolved over the years? During the next lecture in the Decades with Art series, we will discuss the intersection of art, graphic design and literature—we will delve into the world of contemporary illustration and get to know its creators better.
Polish illustration is among the most recognizable and valued phenomena in our visual culture. Book illustration holds a special place within it, appreciated both domestically and abroad.
The April meeting in the Decades with Art series will be dedicated to the work of selected artists who, in recent decades, have been developing new forms of storytelling through images. The lecture will show how contemporary illustration is evolving at the intersection of art, graphic design, and literature, and how its creators experiment with various techniques—from drawing and collage to digital tools. The relationship between contemporary illustration and the legacy of Polish illustration from the second half of the 20th century will also be discussed.
The lecture will feature profiles of artists such as Edgar Bąk, Aleksandra Niepsuj, Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński and Piotr Socha.
Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk’s lecture will revisit the exhibition “Artists and Masterpieces of Illustration” (June 4–30, 2017). The exhibition, presented in the historic cellars of the ICC, was created to mark the 50th anniversary of the world’s most important competition dedicated to children’s books—the Bologna Ragazzi Award, organized by the Bologna Book Fair.
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”.
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