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Poster promoting the event: on the left a black board with white lettering: Night of Museums 2025, invites the White Team, May 16 (Friday), 4-24 pm, ICC, Market Square 25, on the right a photo: against a brown wall three hairy folk masks with horns

Night of Museums 2025 at the ICC

On May 16 we invite you to a Night of Museums at the ICC Gallery with Romanian art and thrillers! At our exhibition, risk-takers will be able to look for works inspired by Count Dracula, laugh with the magical “Satans” (“Biała drużyna”) of Ioana Nemeș, or come face to face with the fantastic characters of Lea Rașovszky native to the aesthetics of “manele”, the Romanian version of pop.

Lecture: “Bucharest – the modernist showcase of Romania”

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.

“To Speak Not One's Own: Language in the Face of Others' Experience”

The International Cultural Centre and the Batory Foundation invite you to a meeting on the search for language to describe different ways of perceiving the world and other people's, difficult, experiences. The pretext for this discussion is the nominations for the Marcin Król Award.

Poster promoting the debate: on the left the title of the conference Common development - 25 years of the Visegrad Fund, in the middle: date 15.05.2025, 11 am - 3 pm, MCK, Rynek Główny 25, Krakow, on the right on a colorful background the name of the Three Seas Art. Festival 2025, at the bottom logos of partners and sponsors.

“Common development – Three Seas Art Festival” – international debate at the ICC

On May 15, the International Cultural Centre in Krakow will host an international debate organized within the framework of the Three Seas Art Festival.

Pictured is Nora Ebneth, on the other side on a white background the title of the lecture: Chopin in the Third Reich - idealized, appropriated, forbidden, German translation of the title, date and place: May 14, 6 pm, 7 Stolarska Street, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Krakow

Nora Ebneth's lecture: “Chopin in the Third Reich – Idealized, Appropriated, Banned”

The ICC and the Consulate General of Germany in Krakow invite you to a lecture by a scholarship holder of the 31st edition of the Thesaurus Poloniae program. It will be devoted to the Third Reich's attempts to Germanize the music and figure of Frederic Chopin.

A poster promoting a meeting of the Central European Book Club at the International Cultural Centre, focused on Ludmila Ulitskaya’s book: Just the Plague. At the center of the poster is the book cover, featuring abstract silhouettes of people wearing masks against a red and black background. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 6 at 6:00 PM in the Panoramic Hall (5th floor), Rynek Główny 25, Kraków.

May Central European Book Club

On May 13, we invite you to a conversation about one of the strongest premieres of Russian literature in recent years – “It's Only the Plague” by Ludmiła Ulicka.

Poster promoting Accessible Sunday on May 11 at the ICC in Kraków and the exhibition Romanian Art. Laughing with one eye, crying with the other. Includes accessibility icons.

Accessible Sunday at the Romanian exhibition at the ICC

On May 11, the International Cultural Centre in Kraków invites you to another Accessible Sunday as part of the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora”. The event will include sensory workshops, a guided tour of the exhibition with translation into Polish Sign Language and a walk with audiodescription.

Colorful open door on a black background, text: Library. I like to be here. 22nd Library Week, May 8–15, 2025.

Week of Libraries at the ICC

08.05.2025-15.05.2025

We invite you to the Week of Libraries at the ICC! This is a nationwide action aimed at promoting reading and libraries, which has been held continuously since 2004. The organizer of the event is the Association of Polish Librarians.

Banner with the name of the event.

Lecture: “Zbigniew Dłubak and Group 55”

April 28, 12.00 p.m. Join us for a lecture that will recall the exhibition “Zbigniew Dłubak. Against Stereotypes”. The event will introduce the work and the intellectual and artistic background of the Group 55.

Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2025 at the ICC: Autoethnographic Clusters workshop

Join us for a workshop as part of the next edition of KRAKERS. During them, participants will create their own collages, inspired by the work of Ion Bîrlădeanu and prominent Romanian artists of the 20th century. Their works can be seen in the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandor”. The event will begin with a short tour of the exhibition.

Poster promoting the event in English: Guided tour in English by Prof. Erwin Kessler, Seeing through. Recent Romanian Art. On the left, a black panel with white text, includes the name, date (26.04, 2 pm, ICC, Market Square 25) and title of the exhibition. On the right, on a white background, a work from the exhibition: a three-dimensional composition composed of fragments of old furniture, a billiard ball, and an anatomical model of an eye.

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

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.

Prof. Erwin Kessler's lecture: “100 years of (re)modernisms of Romanian art”

On April 25 we invite you to a lecture by Prof. Erwin Kessler. The expert on avant-garde and modern art from the University of Bucharest will introduce the attendees to the process of changes taking place in Romanian art, mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Film screening and meeting: "Romania as a metaphor"

The International Cultural Centre invites you to a meeting titled “Romania as a metaphor,” which will combine a reflection on women's rights with an analysis of cultural images of subordination and control over the body. The discussion will be accompanied by a screening of the film “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” directed by Cristian Mungiu .

A colorful graphic with the words “Mature to Art: on-line/offline

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

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.

A poster promoting a meeting about the book Dora and the Minotaur. My Life with Picasso by Slavenka Drakulić. At the top, there are logos of the Central European Book Club and the International Cultural Center. In the central part, there is an invitation to the event, with the book's title in bold font. Below, there is an image of the book cover, featuring a cubist-style illustration of a face, reminiscent of Picasso's work. At the bottom, event details are provided: date (April 8, Tuesday), time (6:00 PM), location (Rynek Główny 25, Panoramic Hall, 5th floor).

April Central European Book Club

The International Cultural Centre invites you to the next meeting of the Central European Book Club, which will take place on April 8 at 6 p.m. This time we will talk about Slavenka Drakulić's book “Dora and the Minotaur. My Life with Picasso”, translated by Siniša Kasumović, published by Biblioteka Słów. The meeting will be moderated by Aleksandra Wojtaszek.