This exhibition will focus on the buildings that have housed the Tatra Museum and the people connected to the institution’s development.

 

 

A display of installations and sculptures by Marcin Rząsa (the first of an exhibition series that will present the work of Zakopane’s thriving community of artists). This event will be dedicated to the sculptor, Władysław Hasior, on the 10^th anniversary of his death.

 

An interdisciplinary exhibition to mark the 120th anniversary of the opening of the Tatra Museum. It will show how scientists, artists, writers, poets, photographers as well as tourists, alpinists and skiers discovered and explored the Tatra mountains in the 19^th century and early twentieth century. On display will be artefacts from the Tatra Museum’s collections acquired during the 120 years of its existence.

 

An exhibition of selected photographs by Władysław Hasior ( 1928 – 1999 ) from his Inspirations series, in which the artist shared his inner world and creative skills; the photographs present the artworks, objects and situations from which he drew his artistic inspiration.

 

 

This exhibition of 22 priceless mountain photographs (including some of the earliest known mountain photographs in the world) dating from 1853 to the early 1860s, starts an exchange program between the Tatra Museum in Zakopane and Museo della Montagna Duca degli Abruzzi in Turin, Italy. The photographs come from the collection of the Italian Museum..

 

 

The main idea of this exhibition is to show the regional folk arts and crafts which inspired Stanisław Witkiewicz to create the Zakopane Style in architecture and the applied arts; this includes the local Podhale architecture, Tatra Highlander items and their decorative handicrafts and the oldest regional ethnographic collections, from the end of the 19^th century; in particular, the substantial collection of  Bronisław and Maria Dembowski. The collection was bequeathed by Maria Dembowska to the Tatra Museum in 1922 on the condition that it should be presented in a Highlander interior - it will be housed in a permanent display in the new branch of the Museum to be opened on July 1, 2009.

 

This day-long programme consists of six documentaries about Władysław Hasior, an eminent Polish sculptor, who was closely connected with Zakopane and the Tatra Museum.

 

 

This exhibition presents prints and drawings by Zygmunt Januszewski, a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Dating from 2000 to 2008, these pieces, which are full of inner emotions and experiences, feature signs and symbols that are interwoven with mountain landscapes and motifs to create a semiotic landscape.

 

A retrospective of the artist, who graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and was a lecturer at the Baghdad Academy in Iraq and Wrocław’s School of Fine Arts. In her non-figurative series Polyforms, Zofia Artymowska recreates the world around us, i.e. plants, man-made objects and buildings arranged in lines and solid forms.

 

- The laying of flowers on Tytus Chałubiński’s grave at Zakopane’s old Pęksów Brzyzek cemetery

- A Gathering at the Art Gallery in Koziniec:

Meeting members of Chałubiński’s family

Doctor Chałubiński, as shown in a new light – a talk by Professor Zbigniew Wójcik

Tytus Chałubiński and scholars – a talk by Wiesław Siarzewski

Chałubiński’s unknown herbarium – a talk by Grażyna Cisło