The University of Lodz is its people, their stories, and memories. This year, the institution celebrates its 80th anniversary, and for that momentous occasion it organised a special project. A collection of photos was gathered – from official and private archives – pertaining to UŁ’s history, and then given to various artists with the request to create something based on these images.

That is how this project-exhibition-installation has come to be – community in history.

The artists have chosen topics that refer to the university’s values, identity, science, collective memory, and challenges posed over the decades, as well as those we are facing today as the UŁ community, but also as the society for whom education is the foundation for freedom and awareness.

Sometimes, their attention was drawn to the regular and not-so-regular daily life of the university over the past eighty years.

All these notions will come together to answer one question: What kind of community was, is, and will be the University of Lodz?

/ Group exhibition: Basia Budniak, Anka Leśniak, Karolina Wojtas, Filip Appel, Jerzy Grzegorski

/ Curators: Maciej Andrzejewski and Jolanta Sławińska-Ryszka