Lecture: “Bucharest – the modernist showcase of Romania”

May 16, 2025, 11.00 a.m.

Join us for a lecture in the series Mature to Art, referring to the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora”. The next meeting will be devoted to Bucharest and its architecture.

The topic of the lecture will be Bucharest – a city full of architectural contrasts, sometimes called a small Paris. Nineteenth-century tenements stand side by side with monumental housing developments of the postwar period, and buildings in the spirit of art nouveau meet interwar functionalism.

During the lecture we will look at how in the 20th century the Romanian capital became an important centre of modernist architecture in this part of Europe. A selection of projects that give the city its unique character will be presented, from modernist housing estates to experimental projects of the 1960s and 1970s.

The lecture will be held in Polish.

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.

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”.

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