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EXHIBITIONS

22 November 2023 – 21 July 2024
regular 10PLN / reduced 8PLN

Women of the Right Bank

The exhibition’s central characters are nine women with varying degrees of connection to Warsaw’s right bank districts. A teacher, an anthropologist, a pottery maker, a nun actress, a swimmer, a Zionist activist, a girl scout, a doctor, a painter, and a hostess of an art salon. The choices they made were women’s choices – ways of fulfilling the girlhood dreams and ambitions of the different generations.

We tell their personal stories. We uncover their dormant creativity, determination, courage. All of them were pursuing their goals, struggling against adversity, breaking through the barriers of their times. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they doubted, and sometimes they failed.

These are not figures known to the general public. The exhibition offers a chance to remember their faces and names. Thanks to documents, photographs and memorabilia made available by many institutions and individuals (including the families of the women featured in the exhibition), we can learn at least part of their history – that from Praga, Kamionek, Saska Kępa, Rembertów and Białołęka districts, as well as that lived far away, in Siberia, Serbia or Palestine.

The exhibition combines a historical narrative with an artistic project by Katarzyna and Marianne Wąsowski, inspired by the figures of the women featured.

COLOPHON

Curator: Jolanta Wiśniewska

Cooperation: Elżbieta Miecznikowska (Wanda Szrajber)

Exhibition design: Kosmos Project

Art project: Katarzyna Wąsowska, Marianne Wąsowska

Production: Monika Mazurek, Marta Galewska

Graphic design: Marta Masella

Poster design: Anna Światłowska

Audio materials: Anna Mizikowska

Translation: Ewa Kanigowska-Gedroyć

Editing and proofreading: Urszula Drabińska

Implementation: Ksenia Góreczna, Paweł Grochowalski, Krzysztof Hernik, Piotr Lipiński, Artur Miniewicz, Katarzyna Radecka, Anna Rutkowska, Leszek Sokołowski, Mariusz Stawski, Adam Wrzosek

Conservation care: Piotr Kaczkiełło, Beata Kołodziejska, Julia Kłosińska, Igor Nowak, Piotr Popławski

Digitisation coordination: Mikołaj Kalina

External loans: Janusz Kurczak

Accompanying programme: Ewelina Bartosik, Aleksandra Karkowska-Rogińska

Communication and marketing: Joanna Andruszko, Melissa Czaplicka, Agata Fijałkowska, Agata Fronczyk, Klaudia Gniady, Daniel Karwowski, Anna Ładna, Aleksandra Migacz, Jowita Purzycka, Milena Soporowska

Private collections: Dominique Belin, Anna Czajka, Izabella Czarkowska, Jacek Czuperski, Nili Eisen, Urszula Glensk, Piotr Kiełbasiński, Bohdan Kos, Łukasz Kos, Róża Karwecka, Elżbieta Litwin-Staszewska, Elżbieta Miecznikowska, Ligia Socha

Loans from institutions: Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie, Archiwum Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Warszawie, Archiwum Polskiego Radia, Radio Wrocław, Biblioteka Cyfrowa Regionalia Ziemi Łódzkiej przy Wojewódzkiej Bibliotece Publicznej w Łodzi,  Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Biblioteka Publiczna m.st. Warszawy, Główna Biblioteka Lekarska w Warszawie, Instytut Sztuki PAN w Warszawie, Komisja Historyczna, Dolnośląska Izba Lekarska we Wrocławiu, Kujawsko-Pomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa, Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Ruy Barbosy w Warszawie, Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Radomiu, Muzeum Mazowieckie w Płocku, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Muzeum Teatralne w Warszawie, Muzeum Plakatu, oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, Muzeum Sportu i Turystyki w Warszawie, Muzeum Warszawy, Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Pitt Rivers Museum w Oksfordzie, Szkoła Podstawowa nr II im. St. Szymańskiego w Zawierciu, Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa, Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, Wojewódzka Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Rzeszowie, Zgromadzenie Sióstr Benedyktynek Samarytanek Krzyża Chrystusowego w Niegowie

We would like to thank the relatives of the heroines of the exhibition and the institutions lending materials. Special thanks to Urszula Glensk, Elżbieta Miecznikowska, Bartłomiej Włodkowski and Dorota Raniszewska for their help and cooperation and for sharing the results of their own searches; to Dominique Belin, Wojciech Brojer, Jacek Czuperski, Urszula Glensk and Róża Karwecka for recording the testimonies; to Dariusz Kunowski and Ola Sidor for voice-over recordings, and to Krzysztof Gajewski for cooperation in creating audiovisual biographical materials.

Media partners: Miesięcznik Stolica, Twój STYL

Support of: Fundacja Magovox