Lecture: “Contemporary Romanian art from the collection of the Arthur Taubman Trust”.

April 11, 11.00 am

Join us for a lecture in the series Mature to Art, relating to the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora”. The upcoming meeting will focus on contemporary Romanian art and local and international influences in this art.

The topic of the lecture will be works from the collection of the Arthur Taubman Trust, created through the involvement of Nicholas Taubman, US ambassador to Romania from 2005 to 2008, and his wife, Eugenia L. Taubman. Key artistic trends and social contexts that have influenced the work of contemporary Romanian artists such as Geta Brătescu, Mircea Cantor, Ciprian Mureşan and Dan Perjovschi will be discussed. During the meeting, Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk will also raise questions about the extent to which works by Romanian artists reflect local traditions as well as international trends, and how Taubman's collection has contributed to the spread of international knowledge of Romanian art.

Conducted by art historian and long-time ICC associate Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, the meetings are aimed at adult audiences, with a particular focus on mature art audiences. The lectures examine issues related to art history and culture, with reference to the issues presented in the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora”. This is an excellent opportunity to visit together, discuss and gain a deeper understanding of the artworks on display and their context.

The event takes place in a hybrid form: stationary at the headquarters of the International Cultural Centre and on-line via the Zoom platform.

Participation in the lectures is free of charge.

Duration is approximately 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 exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora” is co-organized by the International Cultural Centre in Krakow and the Romanian Cultural Institute and runs from March 8 to July 20, 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 Center 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.