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Project co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund
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14 May – 25 October 2026 Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Królikarnia
17 April – 13 September 2026 The National Museum in Warsaw
The purpose of the exhibition is to introduce the Turkish audience to the oriental trend in Polish painting, which was one of the major artistic trends in European painting. Polish Orientalism has multiple distinct and specific characteristics which the organisers of the exhibition wish to highlight.
The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and engravings kept in the spirit of Orientalism, starting with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sarmatian portraits, through the works by Jan Christian Kamsetzer created at the end of the eighteenth century, up to the works of nineteenth-century painters. Special emphasis is put on painters active at the Sultan’s court in Istanbul, such as Stanisław Chlebowski and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, as well as painters who paid visits to Turkey – Jan Matejko, Wacław Pawliszak, Jan Ciągliński and Jacek Malczewski.
The exhibition will be opened in October 2014 in Pera Museum of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation in Istanbul. It includes 182 paintings, drawings and engravings as well as specimen of the Polish national costume. A number of paintings by Stanisław Chlebowski from the collection of the Istanbul Military Museum will also enrich the exposition.
