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The Balancing Sculptures' Trail in Poland

 

 

 

 

 

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS:

BEŁCHATÓW - Narutowicza Sq. (Eve) * BUSKO ZDRÓJ - next to the Bristol Hotel (Pyramid) * BYDGOSZCZ - near the Sulima-Kamiński Bridge (Man Crossing The River) * BYDGOSZCZ - Jatki St. (Wikliniarka - Wickerworker) * BYDGOSZCZ - over the Młynówka Canal (At the Finish Line - The Rower) CZĘSTOCHOWA - between the City Hall buildings (Click-Clack) * CZĘSTOCHOWA - near the Częstochowa Philharmonic (Louis Armstrong Statue) * CZĘSTOCHOWA - 52 NMP Avenue (Printer's Imp) * CZĘSTOCHOWA - The Old Market Square (Theatre of Sculptures - Igrce Częstocha - 14 sculptures) * JURATA - the Bryza Hotel (A Crossing Woman) * KAMYK - Consonni (Magician and Kitten) *KATOWICE - Mariacka St. (Bluesman) * KOŁOBRZEG - Arka Medical Spa (Arab Woman, Pablo's Girl)KRAKÓW Father Bernatek Footbridge (Between The Water And The Sky - 10 sculptures) * KRAKÓW - J. Babiński Clinical Hospital (The artist's studio - exhibition in park) * KRAKÓW - Lindego St. (A Crossing Woman) LUBLIN - Grodzka St. (The Magician of Lublin)ŁÓDŹ - Piramowicza St. (With A Chair) * OLSZTYN near Częstochowa (Little Gymnast With A Sash II, A Fight, Infinity, Mage, With A Painting) * POCZESNA (Poczesna Sculpture Gallery and the artist's studio) * POZNAŃ - between the buildings of the Karol Jonscher Clinical Hospital (A Boy With A Kite) SANDOMIERZ - Opatowska St. (Little Rafter) * SOPOT - Bema St. (Boy With Fish) * TOMASZOWICE - Tomaszowice Manor (The Silver Key, Dejanira's Robe, False Tone, Zygmunt, Leaned Out II, Mobile) * WARSZAWA - at the headquarters of the Polish Olympic Committee (The Athletes: Too High Bar, Over the Hurdle, Deep Plunge) * WROCŁAW - Dębowa Avenue (Tensioning The Rope)

 

 

 

The album is now available for purchase, including: a richly illustrated guide to selected stops of the Balancing Sculptures Trail

TEMPORAL EXHIBITIONS:

CZELADŹ – Gallery of the Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" ("Aero-Takty 1" project – Gymnast with a Ribbon) * KOŁOBRZEG – Regional Cultural Centre in Kołobrzeg ("Line of Waves and Balance" exhibition – The Last Hurdle, Too High Bar, Deep Plunge, On Hoops II, Golden Ball, The Flag Official) * KRAKÓW - Zinar Castle ("Balance on the Castle Hill" exhibition - 8 sculptures)​ * ROZKOCHÓW - Rozkochów Palace (Boy With Monkeys) * TYCHY – Tichauer Art Gallery (Acrobat with a Chair, Broken Hoop, Playing with a Dolphin, Champion (Greeting), Training Athlete – extended outdoor section of the exhibition)

 

 

 

In many countries, paths-monuments to expressive artists and significant personalities, tracing the traces of their presence and achievements, are important attractions for tourist escapades. A cognitive instrument that deepens knowledge about the presented figure or branch of art. They testify to the artistic, national or local specific, its cultural specificity and color. These include: the trail of Alfons Mucha, Gustav Klimt, the impressionists, Antonio Gaudi and Joan Miró.

One of such paths in Poland, still informally, is the Balancing Sculptures' Trail of Jerzy Jotka Kędziora.
It is a spatial and simultaneous monument of Polish contemporary art created in a unique, unconventional formula of "agravity" figures placed on ropes. These entities detached from the earth touch on social aspects of our lives, and the way they are presented proves the unique artistic matter. A multicolored palette of personalities can entertain with its artistic wit, intrigue with the unique structure of figures and provoke reflection on the human and artistic condition of our times. Autonomous sections of a specific, simultaneous spider's web create a common artistic organism.

From several dozen works, we can spot figures that delve into culture, history and social life. Touching, exposing and engaging in the artist's didactic and therapeutic projects, or supporting the rebirth of cultural and material heritage. Showing the matter of physical culture, sports and even Olympism in a fresh approach. Building and expanding legends and parahistory.

In dense clusters, works create open galleries and mark local, more condensed, shorter routes. Such are created by Igrce Częstocha in the Old Town in Częstochowa and the surrounding area, or also by works exhibited in Krakow, with Father Bernatek's Footbridge over the Vistula at the forefront.​

The trail is a living, constantly expanding object of fresh artistic thought, an important component of Polish culture and national heritage. A simultaneous monument to a balancer who grew up in the context of Polish social and political transformations, a man detached from the earth and carried with his dreams of freedom of action and freedom of thought to the heavenly firmament. Works of representational sculpture, rooted in centuries-old artistic achievements, but creating an avant-garde branch of its presentation and saturated with natural, wobbling energy and expression.

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The trail has over 20 stops-locations scattered throughout Poland, containing over 50 balancing sculptures, with large exhibitions stretched at both ends of the Jura "Between Water and Sky" in Krakow and Theatrum of Sculptures "Igrce Częstocha" in Częstochowa, studio presentations in Krakow and Poczesna, and smaller installations located in many places in Poland.

Below is a full list of places where you can see Jerzy Kędziora's balancing sculptures. The names of the towns and the photos are also links to a subpage with information about individual sculptures or their larger compositions.

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BEŁCHATÓW - Narutowicza Square
Eve

permanent exhibition

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BUSKO ZDRÓJ - next to the Bristol Hotel
Pyramid

permanent exhibition

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BYDGOSZCZ - near the Sulima-Kamiński Bridge
Man Crossing The River

permanent exhibition

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BYDGOSZCZ - over the Młynówka Canal
At the Finish Line (A Rower)

permanent exhibition

BYDGOSZCZ - Jatki St.
Wikliniarka (Wickerworker)

permanent exhibition

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CZELADŹ - Gallery of Contemporary Art "Elektrownia"
Aero-Takty 1 Project - Gymnast With a Ribbon

temporal exhibition

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CZĘSTOCHOWA - between the City Hall buildings
Click-Clack

permanent exhibition

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CZĘSTOCHOWA - near the Częstochowa Philharmonic

Louis Armstrong statue

permanent exhibition

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CZĘSTOCHOWA - The Old Market Square
Theatre of Sculptures - Igrce Częstocha

14 sculptures

permanent exhibition

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CZĘSTOCHOWA - 52 NMP Avenue
Printer's Imp

new permanent exhibition (since June 16th, 2023)

KAMYK - Consonni
Magician
 and Kitten

permanent exhibition

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KATOWICE - Mariacka St.
Bluesman

permanent exhibition

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KOŁOBRZEG - Regional Cultural Centre
Line of Waves and Balance exhibit - 6 sculptures

temporal exhibition - till Sept. 30, 2026

KOŁOBRZEG - Arka Medical Spa
Arab Woman, Pablo's Girl

permanent exhibition

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KRAKÓW
J. Babiński's Clinical Hospital
in Kobierzyn

Jerzy Kędziora's sculpture studio - variable exhibition

KRAKÓW - Zinar Castle
8 sculptures: Athletes, So What, Open Space, Green Acrobat, Gymnast on Hoops

exhibition since Oct. 27, 2024

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LUBLIN - Grodzka St.
The Magician in Lublin

permanent exhibition

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ŁÓDŹ - Piramowicza St.
With Chair

permanent exhibition

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OLSZTYN near CZĘSTOCHOWA
5 sculptures: Little Gymnast With
A Sash II, A Fight, Infinity, Mage,
With A Painting

permanent exhibition

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POCZESNA
Poczesna Sculpture Gallery

Jerzy Kędziora's sculpture studio - variable exhibition

POZNAŃ - the Karol Jonscher Clinical Hospital
A Boy With A Kite

permanent exhibition

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ROZKOCHÓW - Rozkochów Palace
Boy With Monkeys

temporary exhibition

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SANDOMIERZ - Opatowska St.
Little Fisher

permanent exhibition

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SOPOT - Bema St.
Boy With Fish

permanent exhibition

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TOMASZOWICE - Tomaszowice Manor
6 sculptures: The Silver Key, Dejanira's Robe, False Tone, Zygmunt,
Leaned Out II, Mobile

permanent exhibition

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TYCHY - Tichauer Art Gallery

5 sculptures: Acrobat With a Chair, Broken Circle, Champion, Playing with
a Dolphin, The Tightrope Walker

temporal exhibition (extended outdoor section of the exhibition)

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WARSZAWA - Polish Olympic Committee
The Athletes: Too High Bar, Over the Hurdle, Deep Plunge

permanent exhibition

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WROCŁAW - Dębowa Avenue
Tensioning The Rope

permanent exhibition

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