Autor plakatu: Antek Korzeniowski / Operator Dizajnu

CHOPIN Poster Forever
czerwiec 2025
Dydo Poster Gallery
Kraków, al. Focha 1

The Chopin Poster Forever exhibition in June 2025 at the Dydo Poster Gallery in Krakow commemorates the 19th edition of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which will take place in October this year in Warsaw.

Posters bearing the name of the Polish pianist and brilliant composer appeared at the beginning of the last century. One of the first was a poster from 1915 announcing the festive evening of Grottger and Chopin in starving Warsaw. Since then, hundreds of works have been created concerning events related to the composer. Among them, perhaps the most important are the posters accompanying the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw since 1927, the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój (since 1946) and the International Chopin in Autumn Colors Festival in Antonin (since 1982). In addition to the festivals mentioned, posters are created for other musical events, exhibitions related to the artist, concerts, competitions, anniversaries, films, and even theatre, ballet, opera and jazz events. They are designed by the most famous graphic artists, and for the most important events they are often selected through competitions.

The gallery collection includes almost 300 works related to the theme of the exhibition. They have been shown many times in Poland and abroad, including in Germany, France, England, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belarus, the United States, Mexico and Iran. The current exhibition is cross-sectional in nature - it includes selected works from recent years and the second half of the 20th century. The gallery space limits the exhibition possibilities, the number of works shown is less than 60. These are original prints by over 40 artists. Their authors, inspired by Chopin's music, interpret his musical output in various ways, translating it into the language of visual experience, which is undoubtedly art. Among them, in addition to those who contributed to the fame of the Polish School of Posters, such as Henryk Tomaszewski, Waldemar Świerzy, Rosław Szaybo, their former students - Mieczysław Wasilewski, Lech Majewski, Jerzy Czernawski, Andrzej Pągowski, Leszek Wiśniewski. Among other contemporary designers, Tomasz Bogusławski, Leszek Żebrowski, Roman Kalarus, Rafał Olbiński, Wiesław Wałkuski, Wiesław Grzegorczyk, Sebastian Kubica, Monika Starowicz stand out. Among Krakow artists, Mieczysław Górowski, Władysław Pluta, Zbigniew Latała, Michał Jandura. The poster for the exhibition was designed by Antek Korzeniowski, for which we would like to thank him very much.

List of poster authors at the "Chopin Poster Forever" exhibition at the Dydo Poster Gallery in June 2025:

Bernat Mirosława

Białowicz Krzysztof

Bogusławski Tomasz

Czerniawski Jerzy

Dawid Aldona

Działocha Marta

Górowski Mieczysław

Grzegorczyk Wiesław

Jandura Michał

Kajzer Ryszard

Kalarus Roman

Kemilew Teo

Kierzynka Karol

Kolbusz Władysław

Kołpanowicz Marcin

Korzeniowski Antek

Kubica Sebastian

Kwaśniewski Wojciech

Latała Zbigniew

Leraczyk Andrzej Jan

Majewski Lech

Małecki Stefan

Michałowska Katarzyna

Olbiński Rafał

Orłowski Kuba

Pągowski Andrzej

Piskorski Tadeusz

Pluta Władysław

Polnar Boleslaw

Sętowski Tomasz

Skorwider Eugeniusz

Śliwka Karol

Starowicz Monika

Szaybo Rosław

Szulecki Tomasz

Szychalski Paweł

Świerzy Waldemar

Wałkuski Wiesław

Wasilewski Mieczysław

Wieczorek Stanisław

Wiśniewski Leszek

Wolff Tomasz

Zelek Bronisław

Żebrowski Leszek