ICC Romanian publications

The International Cultural Centre invites you to read two publications that significantly complement and expand the topics covered in the exhibition “One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying. Art From Romania in the Ovidiu Șandor Collection”.

Album “One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying”.

The bilingual Polish-English album accompanying the exhibition “One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying. Art From Romania in the Ovidiu Șandor Collection” is a unique guide to contemporary Romanian art. It presents a selection of works from the Ovidiu Şandora collection, which is one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Central and Eastern Europe. The album includes introductory texts and essays by prominent authors such as Adriana Babeţi, Łukasz Galusek Kazimierz Jurczak, Jakub Kornhauser, Diana Marincu, Tom Sandqvist, Vladimir Tismăneanu. In the pages of the album, the experts analyze the history and contemporary faces of the Romanian avant-garde and art after the political transformation. They discuss key artistic phenomena, from Surrealism and Dadaism to the impact of the transition and the development of art institutions in Romania. The curators, Monika Rydiger and Lukasz Galusek, also guide the reader through the chapters of an exhibition organized by the International Cultural Centre and the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Read more about the publication “One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying”

“Why Is Romania Different” by Lucian Boia

The new edition of Lucian Boia's book “Why Is Romania Different” takes a closer look at the complex issues surrounding Romanian identity, myths and the nature of the country's transformation and modernization at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The publication is a comprehensive study of Romania's history and provides insight into its path, fraught with paradoxes and difficulties, from one of the harshest communist dictatorships to a democratic member state of the European Union. Its author, Lucian Boia, is one of the most prominent Romanian historians today and one of the most important intellectuals engaged in public debate in his country.

Read more about the book “Why Is Romania Different”.

The exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandor” is co-organized by the International Cultural Centre in Krakow and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw.

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.

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