Małgorzata Gołębiewska – Patron of Krakow Culture

Małgorzata Gołębiewska, Artistic Director of the ArtBoom Festival, has been presented by the Mayor of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski the Patron of Krakow Culture 2010 award. "I'm enormously pleased to be receiving the award in the Sponsor category for the most interesting form and effectiveness of the patronage," said the winner.

Views of power - after Krakow it is time for Warsaw


“Konrad Pustoła photographed views of people holding political, economic or symbolic power - from the president Komorowski and cardinal Nycz to the singer Doda. The photographs have now been mounted on Warsaw’s billboards,” said Gazeta.pl. The Views of power project was for the first time displayed at the June ArtBoom Festival in Krakow.

Literary mural in Krakow

An unusual, gigantic bookshelf has appeared on the facade of the building at ul. Traugutta 3a, in the viscinity of Pl. Bohaterów Getta. The literary mural crowns four days of work by the participants of the Literary Graffiti // TYPOMURAL workshop, run as part of the Free Reading Zone campaign, which has the Krakow Festival Office as its partner. The mural will be officially unveiled at 11 am on Monday, the 28th of November. The project will be presented by Aleksandra Toborowicz and Artur Wabik, artistic supervisors of the mural.


Katarzyna Kozyra’s exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow

After almost two decades since her debut, Katarzyna Kozyra - one of the most interesting and most famous of Polish artists in recent years - will have a solo exhibition at the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow. This will include such works as Łaźnia i Łaźnia męska, Więzy krwi, Święto Wiosny, Casting and some of the films from the series entitled W sztuce marzenia stają się rzeczywistością. The exhibition will run until the 15th of January 2012.