YEARLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE — 2019 YEARLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE — 2019 (no. 28) TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 7 — The International Cultural Centre in 2019 9 — The Year in a Nutshell CALENDAR (JANUARY – DECEMBER 2019) CONFERENCES • SEMINARS 101 — The Cultural Space of Central Europe. Podkarpacie, Roztocze, Polesie 109 — 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe. Heritage and the Environment 116 — Volunteering for Heritage. Let’s Work Together in Europe EXHIBITIONS 121 — Architecture of Independence in Central Europe 133 — Years of Disarray. The Art of the Avant-Garde in Central Europe 1908–1928 139 — The Treasures of Kraków 145 — Skopje. City, Architecture and Art of Solidarity 155 — The Armenian Cathedral in Lviv and its Creators 163 — Ahmad Nabaz. The Dark East 167 — Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES 175 — The Academy of Heritage 177 — OWHC Young Professionals Forum 2019. Accompanying the 15th Congress of the Organisation of World Heritage Cities 183 — V4 Heritage Academy. The Management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Visegrad Countries 186 — The Programme Accompanying the Exhibitions 191 — Educational Programme 197 — Artcome. Art And Contemporary Me. Artwork as a Medium Building European Identity PROJECTS • NETWORKS • PROGRAMMES 202 — Thesaurus Poloniae 204 — AHICE – Art and Heritage in Central Europe 205 — RIHA Journal 207 — Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures 208 — HOMEE 211 — ILUCIDARE 214 — Polish St. Petersburg. Internet Encyclopaedia PUBLICATIONS • LIBRARY • READING ROOM • WORKSHOP 218 — Publications 2019 233 — The ICC Library PARTNERS, BENEFACTORS, SPONSORS 238 — Promotion and Relations with the Media and Partners 243 — Patrons, Sponsors and Partners of the ICC (January – December 2019) ANNEX 250 — Programme Council of the International Cultural Centre 251 — Strategic Plans of the International Cultural Centre 2018–2022 253 — Organisational Structure of the International Cultural Centre 255 — Statute of the International Cultural Centre 7 THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE IN 2019 It is with great honour that we present to you our report of the twenty eighth year of the activity of the International Cultural Centre in Kraków – this was a successful year in every possible aspect. We organised many projects with our mission unchangeably focused on Central Europe. The exhibition The Architecture of Independence in Central Europe – which had already opened in November 2018 – unfolded a vast geographical panorama of issues which allowed us to view Central Europe in the last century. In 2019, we set out to look at political, social and cultural changes, from the perspec- tive not only of architecture but also through other arts: painting, sculpture and graphics – and this was achieved at the exhibition Years of Disarray. Art of the Avant‑Garde in Central Europe 1908–1928 and also at one which presented photographs and photographic books, Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks. The exhibition Skopje: City, Architecture and Art of Solidarity was a reminder of the great gesture of solidarity made by Poland to the Macedonian capital destroyed by an earthquake in 1963 and about the contribution of Polish urban planners and architects in the reconstruction of the city. We also presented a slightly forgotten treasure: a collection of Polish art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, never shown in Poland before; these were the gifts of artists donated to Skopje, whilst the Museum was designed by Polish archi- tects and erected as a gift from the Polish government. This gesture of soli- dary gets a new, very timely meaning today. “It is solidarity which encompasses the entirety of human relations, both with other people and with nature, that has become the most significant challenge for the globalising and increasingly interdependent world” observes Krzysztof Czyżewski in one of the essays con- tained in his book, W stronę Xenopolis [Towards Xenopolis] published in a series from the European Core Library. We are vigilant, sensitive and we keep searching for answers to questions which arise. Of special importance for us are issues related to the protection of the environment and climatic challenges, which formed the central topics of the 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe. We also wondered to what degree such opposites as: nature – culture, stability – changeability, tangible – intangi- ble are no longer adequate to describe the complexity of the surrounding world and the heritage with which we are associated. We devoted a lot attention to international research projects: ILUCIDARE, which analysed the relationship between cultural heritage and innovation and which studied diplomacy based on cultural heritage; and HOMEE – a pro ject aimed at a better understanding of the relationships between mega-events and the policy of cultural heritage protection. Another international pro- ject, ArtCoMe, concerned intercultural dialogue about common heritage in Europe and consisted in collaboration between students, professionals, curators, teachers and museum educators. We also organised international workshops, the OWHC (the Organisation of World Heritage Cities) Young Professionals 8 Forum, devoted to the relationship between heritage and tourism, which accom- panied the 15th World Congress of the OWHC. We kept working for the popula- risation of Kraków – its values and significance, not only for European civilisa- tion. We showed, for the first time in the region of the Persian Gulf, in Bahrain, the exhibition The Treasures of Kraków, which gives us a perspective on this exceptional city as a work of art in a universal dimension. The year 2019 was a year of important anniversaries – the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Union of Lublin and the tenth anniversary of the Eastern Partnership – which found its reflection both during the 5th Forum, and in a special edition of the Herito quarterly. First and foremost, however, this was the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of communism in Poland and the initiation of the democratic transformations in Central Europe, which was the exceptional moment in which the International Cultural Centre was also born. These three decades of the pursuit of our mission, clearly formulated right from the start, make up both a gift and an obligation. It is only through a long process that an authentic culture of responsibility can be developed, something which is fundamental in our part of the continent, so often affected by discontinuity. The year closed with a biography of a special place for us – “The Ravens House”, the Centre’s headquarters and our crown jewel since 1991. In the book Rynek Główny 25. Dzieje jednego adresu [25 Main Market Square. A Story of a Unique Place] we presented the history of this tenement house – a witness not only to the most important political and historic events which have taken place at the heart of Kraków, but also to the everyday life of the city’s residents, their entertainment and their cultural events. And today, the house at Main Market Square 25 is not only our house, but also a space for new thinking about heritage. Agata Wąsowska‑Pawlik Director Of the INternational Cultural Centre ICC YEARLY 2019 9 THE YEAR IN A NUTSHELL One common denominator of the activity programme of the International Cultural Centre is cultural heritage as seen from the perspective of Central Europe. On the one hand, the ICC fulfils its public diplomacy mission by means of international dialogue in culture – representing Poland in specialist cultural networks and frequently the voice of Central Europe on international fora. This part of our activity is less visible on an everyday basis – it is made up of spe- cialist research in many areas of Central European Culture, as well as theory and practice in heritage management and protection. On the other hand, we try to make heritage, understood in a modern way, engage and inspire a wide audience, including Gallery visitors, conference participants, students of post- graduate studies and summer schools participants, attendees of artistic work- shops, seminars, lectures, meetings and debates, as well as the readers of our publications. Our visitors — 24,849 viewers of the ICC exhibitions and participants in accompanying events 2,000 participants in conferences, seminars, meetings, workshops and lectures 1,711 readers at the ICC Library 22,375 fans on Facebook Almost 60,000 users of the www.mck.krakow.pl service 10 ICC YEARLY 2019 11 We had the honor to host — Minister Wojciech Kolarski, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (28 January) Minister Wojciech Kolarski (left) at the exhibition The Architecture of Independence in Central Europe accompanied by Director Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik and Director Łukasz Galusek Dr Iva Hraste Sočo, Croatian Deputy Minister of Culture (16 April) From the left: Director Łukasz Galusek, Dr Iva Hraste Sočo, Director Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik, Dr Ana Kodrić Gagro 12 Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, President of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and Chairperson of the Board of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (2 June) From the left: Director Łukasz Galusek, Director Wąsowska-Pawlik, Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa; in the background: Michał and Miray Wosiński Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, The Minister of Culture in the Republic of Lithuania (7 June) From the left: Director Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik, Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Rasa Rimickaitė, Karolina