Krakow unveils street art Jewish style

Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk

The exhibition “Street Art Jewish Style” at the city's Galicia Jewish Museum has brought together a number of noted Polish artists, who were invited to create their works on the premises of the museum.

The show ties in with the commission of a vast new mural on the exterior wall of the building.

Artist Marcin Wierzchowski, who won a competition to create the mural, was given 120 square metres to work with.

“I wanted to show Israel living for centuries in Krakow, during the Diaspora, as well as Israel today, which has returned to its point of departure and has developed into a modern state,” he said, as cited by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk

Other artists whose work can be savoured at the museum in the current show include Dariusz Paczkowski, Mikolaj Rejs, Pikaso, Adam Niburski and Nawer.

The Galicia Jewish Museum was co-founded by the late British Jewish photographer Chris Schwarz, whose father was born in south east Poland, and the site lies at the heart of the Kazimierz, which was for centuries the hub of Jewish Krakow.

Meanwhile, preparations for the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are in the final stages.

The uprising began on 19 April 1943, with several hundred Jewish guerillas taking part in the armed struggle against the Nazi German occupier.

Among the events will be an open day at Warsaw ąs Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the permanent exhibition of which is due to be completed later this year. (nh).

Photo: PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk

Be sure to tune in to a special edition of our News from Poland magazine on Friday, 14.00 CET, where we devote the whole programme to the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto Uprising and the official opening of Warsaw's Museum of the History of Polish Jews.