Stettin/Szczecin

Dariusz Kacprzak, Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Lars Kærulf Møller, Barbara Ostrowska, Gogusława Sochańska, Urszula Usakowska-Wolff

The present Poland has had a very changeable history. For long periods, parts of the country have been under the rule of other powers. Only with the end of the First World War does Poland get its current extent. Or almost. Some of the westernmost parts of the country, including the port city of Szczecin, remain in German hands until 1945. In the exhibition LONGING - Works from the National Museum in Szczecin you will meet works created under the impression of the country's complex history in the important years around World War I and up to and including with World War II. The artists respond to violent, national changes and wild, international currents of struggle, decadence, optimism and resignation. In paintings and sculptures, they explore different forms of patriotism. Common to their expression is a LONGING to get back the lost Poland. It is accompanied by a research-based...