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Ceramic Revolution - documentary screening
- April 27 at 4:30 PM at Rzeszowskie Piwnice
- Free admission. To participate, you must download a free ticket.
- accessibility: no architectural barriers
Rzeszowskie Piwnice, the F. Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów and the Małopolska Institute of Culture invite you to an extraordinary event combining history, art and passion for ceramics.
The meeting will begin with an introduction by Karolina Fidyk - an employee of the Małopolska Institute of Culture, documentary filmmaker and organizer of the production of the film Ceramic Revolution, devoted to the phenomenon of the Kamionka Cooperative. After a short lecture, there will be a screening of this documentary. Then, at the invitation of Monika Zydroń – curator of the anniversary exhibition Skarbony Pamięci, we will move to the Ethnographic Museum, where we will visit an exhibition presenting the richness and diversity of cultural heritage. During the event, there will also be an opportunity to purchase the book by Bożena Kostuch The Wizard of Łysa Góra. The Story of Bolesław Książek.
Event program
16:30 – Presentation by Karolina Fidyk – employee of the Małopolska Institute of Culture
17:00 – Screening of the documentary Ceramic Revolution
17:45 – Presentation by Monika Zydroń – curator of the anniversary exhibition Skarbony Pamięci
18:00 – Visiting the exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum
About the film:
The film tells the story of the spectacular success achieved by the products of the Kamionka Cooperative from Łysa Góra, Małopolska. Despite the collapse of the plant, Łysa Góra ceramics still arouse admiration and are classics of design. Witness accounts and archival documents show the role of Kamionka in the history of Polish applied art and the changes that have taken place in folk art. The equal heroines of this story are extraordinary ceramic works – mosaics. Some are well-known (such as the famous composition in the Kijów cinema), others have been brought out of oblivion. Carefully filmed details allow you to immerse yourself in the world of mosaics, full of shine and colour. The documentary, produced by the Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, is an attempt to immortalise this heritage.
About the anniversary exhibition Skarbona Pamięci
In 2025, the Museum celebrates a triple anniversary: the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Rzeszów Museum, the 125th anniversary of Franciszek Kotula's birth and the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Ethnographic Department, which took his name.
The starting point for the exhibition were reflections on the institution's activities from the time of collecting the first objects to the present day and the specificity of the items included in the collection.
At the exhibition "Treasures of Memory" we present exhibits that have been brought to the Ethnographic Museum over the last 10 years. The exhibition shows the development that the collections gathered in the Museum have undergone over the years, which in a linear way illustrate the changing fashions and preferences of the rural population.
One of the collections presented at the exhibition is the ceramic collection. The F. Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów has several thousand ceramic objects, representative of most ceramic and pottery centers in southeastern Poland.
The set of exhibits has a unique character, because products from rural and small-town pottery centers, such as clay vessels, folk sculpture, toys and whistles, are supplemented with objects created to meet the needs of the urban population, among others. faience vessels from Potylicz and Lubycza Królewska dating back to the period before World War I. In recent years, the ceramics collection has been gradually expanded to include objects representative of the post-war period, and the Museum's collection has been supplemented with faience, among others, from factories in Włocławek and Koło, and ceramic vessels from the Kamionka Cooperative in Łysa Góra.
The event is organized by Rzeszowskie Piwnice, the F. Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów, the Małopolska Institute of Culture
Partner of the event: the Tak Czytam bookstore chain