Exhibition poster by Kaja Renkas
Polish Institute
1065 Budapest, Nagymezo u. 15.
Cracow Poster Gallery is, for poster-lovers, one of the most famous places in the world. It is visited by young and old alike, by school pupils, university students and professors, by Poles and numerous foreign tourists, and above all by collectors. For many years it has been included as a "must" visit in the best-selling international guidebooks to Poland and Krakow. Polish and foreign magazines devoted to travel and graphic design have written extensively about it.
That's hardly surprising, The Krakow Poster Gallery, founded by Krzysztof Dydo in 1985, is the only gallery in Poland specializing in Polish promotional and commercial posters. It is a meeting place for artists and all those interested in poster art.
Since 1994, gallery has become private property, managed by Krzysztof Dydo and Ewa Pabis.
The gallery's main attraction is more than 2,000 poster titles by more than 100 Polish graphic artists, painters and designers, promoting events primarily in the field of culture, theatre, film, music, exhibitions and literature. But there are excellent social, sports and advertising posters there as well.
Polish posters have played an important role in modern graphic history since the second world war; at the turn of the 1950s and '60s they were considered the finest in the world. The Gallery was created on the basis of the private Dydo Poster Collection, then numbering almost 20,000 titles (today there are nearly twice as many), initiated during the mid 1950s, the growth period of the so-called Polish Poster School.
