The Warsaw Museum of Wola is preparing the exhibition “Białoszewski Impersonal”. The exhibition will show his life and work in a new way – it will tell visitors about Białoszewski’s network of artistic inspirations and relations with other artists active in Warsaw in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Visitors will be able to see the exhibition from June 30.

The exhibition will present manuscripts of works and theater programs, posters, designs and sketches, elements of set design, costumes and props, press clippings, as well as a selection of unique photographs. All these exhibits make up the image of an independent, creative environment with enormous impact.

“Białoszewski Impersonal” is an attempt to have a new look at the life and work of Białoszewski through the prism of artistic and private relations between artists in the milieu of the independent theater operating in and around Warsaw in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s.

More than two decades of Miron’s activities in the occupying theater, Teatr onTarczyńska and Teatr Osobny were told at the Museum of Wola through the figures of co-authors of plays and friends, today often forgotten artists: Bogusław Choiński, Stanisław Swen Czachorowski, Ludwik Hering, Ludmiła Murawska, Leszek Soliński, Lech Emfazy Stefański and others.

The term “separate poet” stuck to Białoszewski, but his work was always rooted in “the need for community, existence through people, in people, from people”. Miron lived and worked in a dense network of artistic inspirations and close relationships. Unprofessional, alternative creative groups and the biographies of their participants form a portrait of impersonal Białoszewski.

Many of these artists unjustly remain in the shadow of Miron to this day, and the exhibition at the Museum of Wola, on the 100th anniversary of Białoszewski’s birth, intends to restore these extraordinary figures in the memory of Warsaw residents.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński