Lecture: Community beyond the Iron Curtain

September 13, at 11:00

The Iron Curtain, although it severely divided Europe into East and West, was not always tight. Despite political and national borders and ideological barriers, artists, their works and ideas traveled between the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and the Western countries. Interestingly, this movement was not exclusively from East to West. Artists from countries such as France, Germany and the United States also came, including: to Poland to express solidarity and support independent creative initiatives.

As part of the lecture announcing the exhibition "Socmodernism. Architecture in Central Europe during the Cold War” Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk will discuss, among others: such artistic activities and ideas as Construction in Process, NET/SIEĆ or the activity of Richard Demarco Gallery. 

Lecturer: 

Dr. 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 programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and essays in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology “obraz/ciało” and co-editor of “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the “Exercising Modernity” programme (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she investigates the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.