École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

A conference organized in partnership with the National Gallery in Prague and the French Institute in Prague, within the joint series Rezonance/Résonnance.

Date: 20 February, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1 ; French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1

Program
  1. I. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

    Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

    9:30 Registration, coffee / registrace, káva

    10:00 Introduction / Úvodní slovo

    Jacek Gajewski, Ambassador of Poland in Czech Republic / velvyslanec Polska v ČR
    Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic / velvyslanec Francie v ČR
    Alicja Knast, General Director, National Gallery in Prague / generální ředitelka Národní galerie v Praze

    10:15 – 11:30  Visual Arts

    L´École de Paris entre les deux guerres et les artistes tchécoslovaques / École de Paris Between the Wars and Artists from Czechoslovakia
    Anna Pravdová, Curator NGP and Curator of the Exhibition École de Paris: Artists from Bohemia and Interwar Paris

    Les artistes juifs de l’École de Paris / Jewish Artists of the École de Paris
    Pascale Samuel, Curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

    École de Paris and Its Polish Connection
    Artur Tanikowski, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Warszawa

    11:30-11:50 COFFEE BREAK

    11:50 – 13:00 Visual Art and Music

    The Ukrainian Branch of the School of Paris. From Ukraine to Paris via Prague
    Vita Susak, member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies, Bern

    Le groupe artistique polonais “Comité de Paris” (Kapistes) dans la Ville des Lumières / Polish artistic group “Paris Committee” (Kapists) in the “City of Lights”
    Anna Baranowa, Association of Art Historians, Krakow Branch

     A Musical School of Paris? Between Ghost and OpportunityFederico Lazzaro, University of Fribourg

    13:10 – 14:10 LUNCH BREAK

    II. LECTURE–CONCERT

    Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

    14:30 – 16:00
    Paris, capitale musicale polonaise dans l’entre-deux-guerres / Paris, the Polish Musical Capital in the Interwar Period 
    Performers: Renata Suchowiejko (lecture in French), Joanna Maklakiewicz (piano), Marek Bugajski (viola).

    III. FILM
    French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
    19:00 Jean Marie Drot: Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse