Exhibitions

"The works of Mieczysław Wejman, created in the years 1943-1944, between the ‘Great Action’ in the Warsaw Ghetto (July 1942) and the Ghetto Uprising (April 1943) and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (August 1, 1944), became one of the most important Polish artistic documents recording the time of occupation – and especially of the Holocaust", writes Dr. Piotr Rypson, curator of the temporary exhibition „Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman” in the introdution to the exhibition catalog.

The exhibition will present war graphics and sketches by Mieczysław Wejman (1912-1997), painter, graphic artist, rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, co-founder of the International Graphic Biennial in Krakow.

See the exhibition catalog (PL/EN) in our online bookstore

Exhibition: Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman

Dates: May 27, 2022 – October 13, 2022

Organizer: the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Curator: dr Piotr Rypson 

Coordination: Franciszek Bojańczyk, Michał Krasicki

Design project: Aneta Faner 

Production: KONTRA Pracownia Plastyczna Tomasz Marzec

Visual identification, catalogue design: Fontarte Studio – Artur and Magda Frankowscy

Design: Bizoñ Studio

Editing: Anna Jaroszuk, Anna Opolska, Marta Wojas 

Translation: Richard Bialy 

Translation proofreading: Natalia Kłopotek

Conservator: Violetta Bachur 

Communications and accompanying program: Aleksandra Przeździecka-Kujałowicz

Lenders: National Museum in Warsaw; private collection

Exhibition staff: Agata Cieplińska, Monika Iwanicka, Małgorzata Zabrocka

Cooperation: Monika Krawczyk, Dariusz Lipowski, Przemysław Batorski, Krzysztof Czajka-Kalinowski, Anna Duńczyk-Szulc, Agnieszka Kajczyk, Marta Kapełuś, Katarzyna Kozłowska, Grzegorz Kwolek, Marzena Mikos, Luiza Nader, Jakub Pobocha, Olga Pieńkowska, Magdalena Szyszkowska, Małgorzata Sołtysik, Paweł Szczęśniak.  

Special thanks to Anna, Stanisław and Filip Wejman

Media patronage:

Niezła Sztuka

Magazyn SZUM

Radio TOK FM

TVP Kultura

wyborcza.pl

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