Decades with art. In spite of the world. About the first women travellers and other pioneers

Certain professions and areas of activity, even if they are now also accessible to women, have been for decades, and often centuries, the exclusive domain of men. Pioneering women had to overcome great difficulties, as demonstrated by the first travellers, such as Florence Baker, painters, like Artemisia Gentileschi or architects, among whom was Julia Morgan, among others.

The lecture addressed the biographies of these great pioneers, focusing on the adversities they had to overcome in their groundbreaking work.  

The lecture referred to the exhibition "A woman's work is never done" on show at the ICC Gallery from April 26 to August 11, 2013.

We invited you to join us for an on-line meeting via the Zoom platform on January 31 at 12.00. Participation in the lecture was free of charge. To receive a link to participate, the participants were asked to send an application to the following e-mail address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl.

Lecturer:

Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk - art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A graduate of the interdisciplinary study programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic papers on art and architecture of the 20th century and publications in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology of texts, obraz/ciało, and the publication „Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific programme Exercising Modernity (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she conducts research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

The series of lectures "Decades with Art" is an original selection of topics which are updated, expanded and supplemented with a discussion of one - each time another - of the past exhibitions organised at the ICC in order to revisit the rich and varied activities of the International Cultural Centre over the recent years.