Exhibitions (83)

Fata Libelli: Destinies of Books and Their Owners

The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum , ul. Piłsudskiego 12

Battle Which Didn’t Happen. On the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of Warld War II

At dawn on 1 September 1939, one of the first German bombs fell on the Rakowice-Czyżyny airfield near Kraków, marking the start of the war which would soon engulf Europe and beyond. During...

Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, ul. Lipowa 4

Pompeii. Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius

Although it happened almost two thousand years ago, the destruction of Pompeii remains one of the most shocking and evocative catastrophes in human history. Following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79...

Museum of Archaeology, ul. Poselska 3

Maurizio Buscarino. “Comedians!” Cricot 2 Theatre in Photos

The Italian photographer Maurizio Buscarino spent many years documenting the most important phenomena of contemporary theatre all over the globe. His vast archive of around twelve thousand photos...

Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, ul. Nadwiślańska 2

Chasing Colours. Glass Artworks by Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz

Fifty years ago at 3 Lipowa Street an experimental workshop of Cracovian glass was launched; the handmade artistic objects are now regarded as one of the most fascinating examples of postwar design...

Lipowa 3 The Glass and Ceramics Centre, ul. Lipowa 3

Wyspiański. Treasures from Lviv

The collection of Stanisław Wyspiański’s works held by the Lviv National Art Gallery comprises four pastel portraits and sixty-four loose sketches and drawing studies. The latter date back to...

The Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1

Wyspiański’s Treasury

Exhibition of Stanisław Wyspiański’s works from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow. May 2019 saw the closure of the monumental exhibition Wyspiański which attracted crowds...

The Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1

Kraków’s Iron Roads

In the 19th century, railways brought prosperity and modernity; during Poland’s partitions, Kraków’s iron roads were seen as important links by Polish social and economic...

Podgórze Museum, ul. Limanowskiego 51, Kraków

World War II – Drama, Symbol, Trauma

On 6 November 1939, the Nazis rounded up well over a hundred professors at the Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Novum. The majority were transported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4

Guido Casaretto. The Ghosts of Matter

The exhibition is the latest in a series of individual presentations by artists whose works are featured in the MOCAK Collection. We can see 17 works from the years 2014–2019. Seven of them...

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4

Mikołaj Smoczyński. Private Exhibition

The oeuvre of Mikołaj Smoczyński (1955–2009) continues to be discovered anew. This is the result of the abundance of material that this unusually productive artist has left behind. MOCAK...

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4

Shinji Ogawa. I Enter Every Reality

Exhibition to celebrate the artist’s 60th birthday. T his is the first such comprehensive presentation of selected works by Shinji Ogawa in the MOCAK Collection. It has been supplemented with...

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4