30 years of Krakow`s Jewish Papercuts School
25.06.2025 - 12:00 / Krakow Museum - Old Synagogue, ul. Szeroka 2430 years have gone by…
It has been over 30 years since Jewish cutouts appeared at Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. It first happened in 1992. At that time, the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow – currently Krakow Museum in the Old Synagogue had an exhibition entitled Cutouts Inspired by Jewish Art by Anna Małecka Beiersdorf.
In 1994, the Director of Jewish Culture Festival, Mr. Janusz Makuch, asked Anna to do a Jewish cutout workshop at the Festival.
And that’s how it all started!
For 20 years, the cutouts workshop has been on the Festival programme. And it should be emphasised, that Krakow festival was the first regular, several-day-long event of this type in the world, during which the art of the Jewish people, Jewish cutouts, which disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century, was revived.
Several hundred people have attended the workshops – adults, children, from Krakow, all over Poland, from abroad. There were many Jews who saw their own art for the first time here, in Krakow’s Kazimierz. They signed up either once – wanting to find out what this art was and is, or there were people who came regularly, every day, making their own compositions inspired by traditional Jewish cutouts under Anna’s experienced eye.
The workshops were attended by Krakow women fascinated by this form of art: Anna Blaźniak, Marta Gołąb, Magdalena Jaśkiewicz, Agata Seweryn. Together with Anna Małecka Beiersdorf, they presented their works at a collective exhibition Krakow School of Jewish Paper-Cutouts in 1999, naturally during the JCF in Krakow.
Now, more than 30 years later, you can admire the paper works of these ladies: Anna, Anna, Marta, Magdalena and Agata in the very same Old Synagogue at ulica Szeroka in Krakow!
You are also invited!
Free admission.
Exhibition open till July 7, 2025.
