Wool – traditionally innovative. Lecture by Ewa Gołębiowska
Meeting accompanying the exhibition “Krystyna Wojtyna-Drouet. I Cease to Exist for Myself" (in Polish)
Zachęta | Cinema Room (entrance through the exhibition)
free entry
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The Polish school of tapestry owes a lot to Polish wool. Raw and thick, it easily lent itself to the imagination of artists. It provided density and an original texture that was difficult to achieve with industrial yarn, and it took natural dyes beautifully.
It was not easy to obtain it years ago, but now it is probably even more difficult. After all, the number of sheep in Poland has decreased almost 20-fold. The crisis does not affect Poland, but the entire industrialized world.
Ewa Gołębiowska, co-founder of Zamek Cieszyn, vice-president of the SPFP Design Association, and wool activist, will talk about ways out, wool innovations, and the role of design in all this.
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20.02 – 04.04.2026Krystyna Wojtyna-Drouet. I Cease to Exist for MyselfThe solo presentation of Krystyna Wojtyna-Drouet's works is the result of the artist’s long-standing, deeply intuitive relationship with material and craft. The exhibition brings together tapestry textiles, sketches, dyeing recipes and archival materials, revealing the processual nature of her practice, grounded in attentive observation and improvisation. A key point of reference within the exhibition is Uliczka (1962) — a work that marked a breakthrough both in the artist’s career and in the history of the Polish school of textile art.
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