Ewa Pluta – “Realizations of Women Sculptors and Ceramic Artists in Wrocław’s Urban Space”
Ewa Pluta restores the memory of women artists who created monuments, park sculptures, mosaics, and installations that helped shape the city’s modern appearance. Their works — from monumental obelisks to subtle forms — can still be found throughout Wrocław. This is a story about the visibility of women in art and about how Wrocław became their shared open-air studio.
Iwona Kałuża – “Women to the Tractors”
Discover the profiles of four designers working in industrial plants — a small yet telling selection illustrating the presence of women artists in heavy industry. Alongside smelters, bricklayers, tram drivers, and tractor operators, there were also industrial designers creating machine casings and printed materials such as advertising leaflets.
- Lidia Śniatycka-Olszewska worked for the Design and Studies Office of River Fleet Equipment,
- Irena Lenartowicz was associated with the Pafawag Wagon Factory,
- Maria Lasota-Chorąży designed for the Jelcz Automotive Works,
- Krystyna Pławska-Jackiewicz worked for the Fadroma Construction Machinery Factory.
- Three of these factories were located in Wrocław, and the fourth in Jelcz near Oława.
Mika Drozdowska – “Gestures That Endure”
Explore the history and significance of the Wrocław School of Ceramics — a phenomenon that distinguishes Wrocław and Lower Silesia on the Polish cultural map. The author describes the origins of the ceramics studio at the Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts (originally the State Academy of Art and Artistic Craft), led by Julia Kotarbińska, Krystyna Cybińska, and Halina Olech.
Mika Drozdowska examines the connections between the studio and industry, as well as the evolution of ceramics as an artistic medium. She emphasizes the importance of practice, process, and collaboration in transmitting knowledge between generations of women artists, and points to the contemporary continuation of this tradition in the works of Lidia Kupczyńska-Jankowiak, Renata Bonter, Alicja Patanowska, Karina Marusińska, and Dominika Kulczyńska.
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