Expert guided tour with Prof. Erwin Kessler: “Seeing through. Recent Romanian Art”

April 26, 2 pm

Join us for an expert guided tour with Professor Erwin Kessler, an expert on the avant-garde and contemporary art and a lecturer at the University of Bucharest.

Professor Erwin Kessler will give a guided tour of the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora” at the Gallery of the International Cultural Centre in Cracow. The researcher will talk about Romanian art and its transformations over 100 years. He will focus on critical analysis of selected works, introduce the most important artists and the processes surrounding the creation of their works. The guided tour “Seeing through. Recent Romanian Art” will be an opportunity to take an in-depth look at currents in Romanian art that have often clashed with each other and proposed completely different approaches to artistic creation.

Guided tour will be held in English. 
Guided tours included in the exhibition ticket price. 

On April 25 we also invite you to a lecture by Prof. Erwin Kessler entitled: “100 years of (re)modernisms of Romanian art”.

Prof. Erwin Kessler – curator, philosopher, associate professor of art history and aesthetics at the University of Bucharest. Research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Bucharest. Founder of MARE (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Bucharest. Author of numerous scientific publications and books, editor of catalogs accompanying exhibitions. His main areas of research are the history, aesthetics and theory of modernist, avant-garde and contemporary art, phenomenological aesthetics and visual anthropology.

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 in Warsaw.

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