The exhibition CREATIVE MEETINGS marks the beginning of a new collaboration between the National Academy of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
2025.06.06
On 3 June 2025, the Bulgarian-Polish exhibition Creative Meetings – Łódź featuring professors from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk was opened in the prestigious Kobro Gallery in Łódź. The exhibition was opened by Assoc. Prof. Przemysław Waszowski, PhD, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Assoc. Prof. Regina Dalkalacheva, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National Academy of Art, and Dr. Petar Lyanguzov, Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute – Warsaw.
In a productive conversations with the Rector, the Vice-Rector for International Affairs and the Deans of both faculties, ideas and opportunities for future creative and educational exchange between the National Academy of Art and the Academy in Lodz were shared and discussed – holding of solo, representative and joint exhibitions, developing of joint projects with the participation of teachers, students and individual departments. Pending is the drawing up and signing of a Memorandum of Bilateral Cooperation between the two leading European academies of visual arts.
Participating artists
Svetozar Benchev, Regina Dalkalacheva, Dorota Sak, Marek Sak, Manya Vaptsarova, Marek Wrzeszynski, Malgorzata Borek, Piotr Cieszelski, Wojciech Leder, Tomasz Muszal, Zbigniew Purczynski, Michal Rybinski, Piotr Stachlewski, Joanna Trzczyńska, Przemysław Wachowski, Witold Ważywoda, Jan Waszynski, Ludwika Żytkiewicz
The exhibition is the second part of the Creative Meetings project initiated by the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw.
The main idea is to “visit” the non-capital city space by developing and supporting further creative contacts between the National Academy of Art in Sofia and related universities in other Polish cities, in this particular case the Academy of Fine Arts “Władysław Strzeminski” in Łódź. We also invited a large group of artists associated with this academy, through which the initiative continues to achieve its goals – the next bridges of cooperation in the field of culture and spirituality between Bulgaria and Poland will undoubtedly be built, said Dr. Petar Lyanguzov, Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw.
Gallery
