FOCUS :: "Young Poland" in Kyoto

The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan is currently hosting an exhibition titled "Young Poland", showcasing more than 150 works from Poland’s late 19th and early 20th-century modernist movement, including paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative art. Key pieces by Olga Boznańska, Jacek Malczewski, and Włodzimierz Tetmajer - on loan from the National Museum in Kraków (MNK) - are among the works displayed in Japan.

"Young Poland" Exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.

Photo: Radio Poland

Running till June 29, the Kyoto exhibition explores how late 19th- and early 20th-century Polish artists - often inspired by Japanese art - pursued impressionism, symbolism, and the search for a distinct national style. 

"Young Poland" exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.

Presented by Danuta Isler in Kyoto