Archive 2012
A CITY WITHOUT A RABBI CANNOT EXIST
Rabbis, subrabbis and candidates for rabbis in the Warsaw Governorate 1888-1912
Location: Outdoor Gallery (Galeria Plenerowa) by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date: 10th-23rd September 2012
On September 10, another presentation began as part of the series of exhibitions in the urban space which started in May.
This time, it was an exceptional testimony to the history of the Jewish community living on the Polish territory since the Middle Ages. For the first time, over 50 unique portrait photographs from the turn of the XIX and XX century will be shown, taken from the collection of the State Archives of the City of Warsaw, never published before.
In the photographs, you can see the silhouettes of rabbis and candidates for rabbis in the cities of the former Warsaw Governorate. Many of them, being the administrators of Jewish communities and spiritual leaders, gained recognition both in our country and abroad. At the turn of the XIX and XX century, in the Kingdom of Poland, the choice of a rabbi had to be approved by the governor and the candidate had to pass an exam. The title of the exhibition comes from an application submitted to the governorate authorities by the Jewish community in Staszów, in which the community gave reasons for the necessity of choosing a rabbi in their city.
The exhibition is prepared by: State Archives of the City of Warsaw and Stołeczna Estrada
“GLORY OF THE LOST PAST” – an exhibition of photographs by Diti Ravner
Location: Galeria Plenerowa by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date: 14th August - 9th September
The new exhibition in the Outdoor Gallery (Galeria Plenerowa) will be a presentation of photographs taken by Israel-born Diti Ravner – graduate from Avni Institute (A Fine Arts Academy inTel Aviv).
The theme of the works shown at the exhibition “Glory of the Lost Past” are Warsaw's old building, witnesses of our capital's former facade. On the photographs, we can see the buildings in such streets as Próżna, Waliców, Krochmalna, Łucka and Chłodna, as well as the district of Praga. For the artist, they are a recollection of the pre-war life she is trying to capture with her camera and give them immortality.
“Those buildings have told me their story and I have answered by taking photographs of them, thus collecting pieces of greatness from the pyres of destruction. I can almost feel the shadows roaming those streets and although it only happens in my head, I know this way I have managed to make friends,” says Diti Ravner about her photographs.
A DATE WITH HER AT 9 O'CLOCK…on the entertainment in the pre-war Warsaw
Location: Galeria Plenerowa by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date:17th July - 13th August 2012
City of Warsaw, State Archive of the Capital City of Warsaw and Stołeczna Estrada invite you to the opening of the exhibition A date with her at 9 o'clock... or the entertainment in the pre-war Warsaw, taking place on July 17, at 14.00 hrs. in Galeria Plenerowa (Outdoor Gallery) situated among the Old Town walls at Castle Square, in Międzymurze im. Piotra Biegańskiego. Using over 120 photographs and graphics, as well as accounts and memories as an example, the exhibition presents the cultural and entertainment offer of the pre-war Warsaw. It takes us to fashionable cafés and restaurants that Warsaw's social life at the time took place in, to theatres and cinemas, to elite receptions and balls given in the interiors of the Royal Castle, Europejski Hotel and Academy of Fine Arts. It invites us to the Vistula beaches and ship cruises to Bielany, to popular cabarets and dance parties in Adria.
The materials presented in the exhibition come from the collections of the State Archive of the Capital City of Warsaw and the National Digital Archive, partner of the project. Another partner of the exhibition is the Association of Friends of the State Archive of the Capital City of Warsaw.
BALL IS IN PLAY
Location: Galeria Plenerowa by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date: 19th June - 2nd July 2012
Euro2012 enters the semi-finals, so the “Ball is in play.”
On Tuesday, June 19, in the Stołeczna Estrada Outdoor Gallery by the Barbican, third exposition this season will be shown. This time, thanks to the collaboration with the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw, we will see a very current as far as the theme exposition “Ball in Play.” It will consist of 47 works that took part in the Satirical-Humorous Drawing International Competition by the same name which concluded at the end of May. As an additional attraction, there will be a meeting with artists who on Saturday, June 23, between 13.00 and15.00 hrs. will draw the caricatures of all interested, live.
For the time of Euro2012, Outdoor Gallery has two special expositions planned: the recently concluded “White Eagles, Black Eagles” and the after-competition exhibition “Ball in Play,” which has as a theme football viewed from a wide social and, naturally, humorous perspective. The exposition will present drawings selected from nearly 1,200 works sent through to the competition from over 50 countries. We will see, among others, works sent from Iran, Canada, Egypt, India, China, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Indonesia, Japan, The Philippines and, of course, Poland and Ukraine.
“The distorting mirror of the satire best shows the joy of victory, the bitterness of loss, laughter and tears, so accurately depicted by pencil and paintbrush. All that delights us in football and all that makes us object to it, was drawn with the passion equal to that that accompanies the players during the game”, describes the exhibition the Director of the Museum of Caricatures, Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz, the initiator of the contest.
The exhibition will, among others, present a family portait with a mother praying to a referee, by Krzysztof Grzondziel (Grand Prix of the Competition), a psycho-analytical drawing by Vienna-born Gerhard Gepp (1st Prize) entitled “The Couch” and a mocking caricature drawn by Ross Thomson from the UK (3rd Prize) which shows the goalposts being built out of Ikea elements (“Ikea Goalposts”). Football players doing acrobatics in the air to make a wall in the defense of the highest values were drawn by the Ukrainian artist, Vladimir Kazanevsky (2nd Prize). The prize for a young artist under 30 was awarded to the increasingly successful in Europe and abroad Nikola Hendrickx from Belgium, for his work “Goal!”
WHITE EAGLES, BLACK EAGLES
Location: Galeria Plenerowa by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date: 5th - 18th June 2012
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the History Meeting House would like to invite you to the exhibition “White Eagles, Black Eagles. Polish and German Footballers in the Shadow of Politics” (Weiße Adler, schwarze Adler. Polnische und deutsche Fußballer im Schatten der Politik). The exposition will be presented on May 17 in the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany (Mon.-Thurs. 10.00-16.00 hrs., Fr: 10.00-15.00 hrs.) and from June 5, in the outdoor gallery in Castle Square (Międzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego) in Warsaw. It was prepared in Polish and German, and for the outdoor gallery, also in English.
The exposition presents photos and documents about the history of football in Poland and Germany in the XX century, from the first sports encounters of both nations (the Cracovia vs. Eintracht Leipzig game in 1913) until today. Polish-German relations in the past century were particularly dramatic and the difficult history of our contacts was also reflected in our sports relations. We show the mutual rivalry of both nations on the sports field with its political and social conditions.
The exposition also presents the silhouettes of 11 eminent sportsmen (10 footballers and a coach) who made sports history. Each of them suffered from a “torn soul.” An excellent goalkeeper from the '20s, Emil Görlitz, was a German playing for the Polish national team; Stanislaus Kobierski was a Pole playing for the German national team; and there was a football phenomenon in the personage of Ernest Wilimowski who first scored for Poland and went on to play for the III Reich.
The exhibition was prepared by historians: Dr. Robert Gawkowski, Dr. Jarosław Rokicki and Thomas Urban, the title refers to the recently published book by T. Urban: White eagles, black eagles.
Organisers: The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the History Meeting House; Partners: Stołeczna Estrada, National Digital Archive.
GEORGIA, HISTORY AND TODAY
Location: Galeria Plenerowa by the Barbican at the Castle Square (Miedzymurze Piotra Biegańskiego)
Date: 22nd May - 4th June 2012
This Tuesday, May 22, at 14.00 hrs. in Jan Twardowski Square in Warsaw the outdoor exposition will open, entitled “Georgia – history and modern times,” prepared by the National Archives of Georgia, in collaboration with the Chief Directorate of State Archives, City of Warsaw State Archive and Stołeczna Estrada.
The exhibition presents over 60 photographs from the turn of the XIX and XX century, as well as contemporary photos of Georgian landscapes and cities, such as Tbilisi, Batumi, Signaki and one of Georgia's oldest cities - Mtskheta – which in 1994 became a UNESCO National Heritage Site. Photographs with a historic commentary show us the Georgian customs, dances and clothes
The exhibition will be opened by the Director General of the National Archives of Georgia, Teona Iashvili.
