"I Paint to Forget." Interview with Aviva Blum-Wachs
We invite you to watch an interview with Aviva Blum-Wachs, an Israeli painter and co-author of the exhibition "And Yet Life," prepared in collaboration with artist Wojciech Cieśniewski. Aviva Blum-Wachs is the daughter of Abrasza Blum, one of the leaders of the Bund in the Warsaw Ghetto, a member of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), and a participant in the Ghetto Uprising, and Luba Blum-Bielicka, head of the Jewish Nursing School. The school operated within the ghetto at 1 Mariańska Street until the summer of 1942, and later at Gęsia Street […]
A work from the MGW collection on display at Zachęta
The exhibition "Enchanting the World" is on view at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw until July 23rd, which also features a work from the MGW collection – "May" by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is a Polish-Roma visual artist, painter, sculptor, educator, and activist. She graduated from the A. Kenar Secondary School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. In 2004, she received her diploma from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She lives and works in Czarna Góra, where she was raised in a Roma community. She is involved in social projects that counteract […]