Lecture: Light as matter. Sculptural experiments

10 October 2025, 11.00

We invite you to a lecture from the series Mature for Art, which will focus on light and its impact on shape, space and material.

The 20th century brought significant changes in the field of sculpture. Artists reached not only for traditional materials such as stone, bronze and wood, but also for new elements, including immaterial ones. One of them was light, treated as an independent medium, capable of shaping space and directly influencing the viewer's perception.

Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk's lecture will present selected artistic experiments with light, discussing the work of Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Carlos Cruz-Diez, James Turrell and Kimsooji, among others.

The Mature for Art meetings, led by art historian and long-time collaborator of the ICC, Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, are aimed at adult audiences, with a particular focus on mature audiences. The lectures analyse issues related to art history and culture in relation to the themes that will be presented at the exhibition entitled ‘Brâncuși. Sculpting with Light’ (27 September – 14 December 2025). This is an excellent opportunity for discussion and a deeper understanding of the works on display and their context.

The event will be held in Polish. 

The event will be held in a hybrid format: in person at the International Cultural Centre and online via Zoom.

Participation in the lectures is free of charge.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes.

To receive a link to participate in the online meeting, please send your application to the following email address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl

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 the publication “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. 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 International Cultural Centre in Krakow and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw are co-organisers of the exhibition “Brâncuși. Sculpting with Light” (opening in September 2025).

Event within the framework of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025

The Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025 is organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Romanian Institute of Culture, on the Romanian side, and by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Bucharest, on the Polish side.

For details, write to warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl or call 12 42 42 860.

The offer is under the auspices of the monthly magazine “Voice of the Senior”.

We would like to inform you that during classes, workshops, meetings, gallery lessons, lectures, photos may be taken for the needs of the International Cultural Centre in Cracow (including, among others, for documentation and information on the ICC website and on the ICC profiles on Facebook and Instagram). If you do not agree to this, please inform us in advance. Photos may include images of people participating in the classes and images of works made during the classes. Failure to provide written information to the Exhibition Center before the start of the classes is tantamount to consenting to the International Cultural Center in Krakow's use of the photos mentioned above.