Network Weavers: Women in CIAM Circles - lectures at Gallery VI PER
Galerie VI warmly invites you to lectures and a guided tour, which are held as a complementary program of the exhibition Interwoven: Women Architects and the Resilience of Modernist Networks.
The seminar explores the diverse roles that women played in the CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) environment. In addition to serving as architects and designers, women also acted as intellectual intermediaries, organizers, secretaries, and partners who helped maintain and shape the social and professional networks of modernism.
The lectures and discussions will focus on the work and activities of Barbara Brukalska, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Ise Gropius, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Helena Syrkus, emphasizing how their contributions supported the intellectual, organizational, and cultural infrastructure of the CIAM network. Following the seminar, there will be a guided tour of the exhibition.
Speakers:
Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk is an art historian, curator, and expert in cultural diplomacy. She serves as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and leads the interdisciplinary program "Exercising Modernity," implemented by the Pilecki Institute in Berlin. She obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Jagiellonian University and completed an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Environment–Technologies–Society (also there). She has also studied at the Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author and editor of publications on art and architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, including: Die Moderne in Krakau (Müru Salzmann Verlag, Salzburg, 2025); Katarzyna Kobro: Movement of Space-Time (Muzeum Sztuki w Łódźi, 2021); Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-garde (with Katarzyna Słoboda, Muzeum Sztuki w Łódźi, 2019). She was a curator for the exhibition Marta Antoniak: Elementary Particles (Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 2025), Sections: Gallery of Polish Architecture of the 20th and 21st Centuries (with Kacper Kępiński and Weronika Grzesiak, National Museum in Krakow, since 2021), Identity: 100 Years of Polish Architecture (National Museum in Krakow, 2019), and Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-garde (with Katarzyna Słoboda, Museum of Art in Łódź, 2019). She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Polish Association of Art Historians.
Aleksandra Kędziorek is an art historian, curator, researcher, and editor based in Warsaw. She graduated from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw and CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her work spans architecture, design, and visual art. In her curatorial practice, she strives to consider historically conditioned and stimulating contexts. Through research strategies, she seeks inspiration and creative answers from the past for the challenges of the present. Recently, she has focused on the theme of a sense of security in architecture (Lares and Penates, an exhibition created with Krzysztof Maniak, Katarzyna Przezwańska, and Maciej Siuda for the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2025), the use of textiles in interiors before the expansion of electricity (The Clothed Home, a traveling exhibition created with Alicja Bielawska and Centrala studio for the Polish pavilion at the London Design Biennale, 2021), and the role of aquatic plants in modernist architecture (White Waterlilies, Centrala, an intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, 2022). Previously, she coordinated an international research and exhibition project on Oskar and Zofia Hansen at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and cared for their summer house in Szumin (2013–2017). She is a co-editor of the publications CIAM Archipelago: The Letters of Helena Syrkus (with Katarzyna Uchowicz and Maja Wirkus, 2019) and Oskar Hansen: Opening Modernism (with Łukasz Ronduda, 2014) among others. She teaches at the School of Form, Faculty of Design at SWPS University in Warsaw.
Almut Grunewald is an art historian, curator, and a member of the scientific team of the gta archive within the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich on the topic "Frederick Kiesler. His Sculptures and His Open Artistic Concept." From 2016–2018, she led the research project Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker at the gta archive and edited the publication The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue (Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich, 2019). Together with Sokratis Georgiadis, she co-edited the unfinished book project of Sigfried Giedion Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen (gta Verlag, Zurich, 2023). Recently, she edited the book Cooking Up Dinner Speeches (gta Verlag, Zurich, 2025) about Ise Gropius and her impressions from a three-month trip to Japan with her husband Walter Gropius.
Moderated by: Martina Hrabová
Organized in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague and the Pilecki Institute in Berlin.
The seminar explores the diverse roles that women played in the CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) environment. In addition to serving as architects and designers, women also acted as intellectual intermediaries, organizers, secretaries, and partners who helped maintain and shape the social and professional networks of modernism.
The lectures and discussions will focus on the work and activities of Barbara Brukalska, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Ise Gropius, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Helena Syrkus, emphasizing how their contributions supported the intellectual, organizational, and cultural infrastructure of the CIAM network. Following the seminar, there will be a guided tour of the exhibition.
Speakers:
Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk is an art historian, curator, and expert in cultural diplomacy. She serves as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and leads the interdisciplinary program "Exercising Modernity," implemented by the Pilecki Institute in Berlin. She obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Jagiellonian University and completed an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Environment–Technologies–Society (also there). She has also studied at the Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author and editor of publications on art and architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, including: Die Moderne in Krakau (Müru Salzmann Verlag, Salzburg, 2025); Katarzyna Kobro: Movement of Space-Time (Muzeum Sztuki w Łódźi, 2021); Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-garde (with Katarzyna Słoboda, Muzeum Sztuki w Łódźi, 2019). She was a curator for the exhibition Marta Antoniak: Elementary Particles (Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 2025), Sections: Gallery of Polish Architecture of the 20th and 21st Centuries (with Kacper Kępiński and Weronika Grzesiak, National Museum in Krakow, since 2021), Identity: 100 Years of Polish Architecture (National Museum in Krakow, 2019), and Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-garde (with Katarzyna Słoboda, Museum of Art in Łódź, 2019). She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Polish Association of Art Historians.
Aleksandra Kędziorek is an art historian, curator, researcher, and editor based in Warsaw. She graduated from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw and CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her work spans architecture, design, and visual art. In her curatorial practice, she strives to consider historically conditioned and stimulating contexts. Through research strategies, she seeks inspiration and creative answers from the past for the challenges of the present. Recently, she has focused on the theme of a sense of security in architecture (Lares and Penates, an exhibition created with Krzysztof Maniak, Katarzyna Przezwańska, and Maciej Siuda for the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2025), the use of textiles in interiors before the expansion of electricity (The Clothed Home, a traveling exhibition created with Alicja Bielawska and Centrala studio for the Polish pavilion at the London Design Biennale, 2021), and the role of aquatic plants in modernist architecture (White Waterlilies, Centrala, an intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, 2022). Previously, she coordinated an international research and exhibition project on Oskar and Zofia Hansen at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and cared for their summer house in Szumin (2013–2017). She is a co-editor of the publications CIAM Archipelago: The Letters of Helena Syrkus (with Katarzyna Uchowicz and Maja Wirkus, 2019) and Oskar Hansen: Opening Modernism (with Łukasz Ronduda, 2014) among others. She teaches at the School of Form, Faculty of Design at SWPS University in Warsaw.
Almut Grunewald is an art historian, curator, and a member of the scientific team of the gta archive within the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich on the topic "Frederick Kiesler. His Sculptures and His Open Artistic Concept." From 2016–2018, she led the research project Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker at the gta archive and edited the publication The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue (Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich, 2019). Together with Sokratis Georgiadis, she co-edited the unfinished book project of Sigfried Giedion Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen (gta Verlag, Zurich, 2023). Recently, she edited the book Cooking Up Dinner Speeches (gta Verlag, Zurich, 2025) about Ise Gropius and her impressions from a three-month trip to Japan with her husband Walter Gropius.
Moderated by: Martina Hrabová
Organized in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague and the Pilecki Institute in Berlin.
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