In Reference to Witkacy From the 19th to the 21st Century

In Reference to Witkacy From the 19th to the 21st Century is a permanent exhibition occupying two and a half floors of the White Granary, one of the buildings of the Middle Pomerania Museum in Słupsk. The concept of the exhibition is to select eighteen motifs from the oeuvre and biography of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Witkacy (landscape, still life, portrait, self-portrait, figural composition, genre scene, nude, animalistic, aquatic landscape, sculpture, artistic textiles, graphics, regional artists, technology and military) and compare them with identical themes composed or designed by artists and creators from the 19th century to the present day.

The exhibition includes around 200 paintings, prints, posters, drawings, artistic textiles, sculptures, military uniforms and technical objects. It features works by four groups of artists, i.e. the Classics - Witkacy's predecessors, his contemporaries, the Formists and those born after the artist's death. Among the artists worth mentioning are: Jan Matejko, Władysław Podkowiński, Jacek Malczewski, Olga Boznańska, Franciszek Starowieyski, Edward Dwurnik, Magdalena Abakanowicz.