Jacek Malczewski’s paintings, saved at the last moment from Lviv, can be seen in Poznań.

The collection of 34 paintings by Jacek Malczewski was secretly, under strict protection, transported from Lviv to Poland. The works of the most important Polish symbolist found shelter in the National Museum in Poznań, where they were made available to visitors in the form of the exhibition “I’m going into the world and I’m staying. Paintings by Jacek Malczewski from the Lviv National Art Gallery. It is both an opportunity to present works rarely exhibited in Poland, and a gesture of help and solidarity in the protection of Polish cultural heritage in Ukraine. The exhibition at the National Museum in Poznań will run until March 31, 2023.

The Russian aggression, which has been going on for almost a year, has created a threat to the Polish cultural heritage in Ukraine. Polish monuments, sacral buildings, elements of small architecture, symbols of Polish statehood and culture became the target of Russian attacks. The More Than Poland Foundation started substantive and personnel support for the protection of historic, cultural, and sacral buildings, implemented with the help of groups of volunteers operating in Lviv and other cities of Ukraine.

More than 50 Ukrainian works of art were transported by trucks from bombed Kiev to Madrid, the capital of Spain. The trucks left Kiev at dawn on November 15, 2022, hours before another Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital. The cars reached Lviv, crossed the border with Poland, and after five days and almost 3000 km. km arrived in Madrid. At the Polish border, the trucks waited for almost 10 hours, because that’s when a rocket landed on Polish territory, killing two people.

An exhibition of works by Ukrainian artists representing futurism and constructivism entitled “In the eye of the cyclone. Avant-Garde in Ukraine 1900-1930” will be on display at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid until the end of April, and then it will move to Cologne, Germany, and other European cities where it will be safe.

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