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The Art Residency project „Sztuka. Land. Art.” is underway in Krzyżowa. Two artists take part in it - Elke Burkert from Germany and Jarek Lustych from Poland - who are working on a joint project. Before we get to know the effect of their work, we would like to introduce you to the profiles of these amazing artists.

Elke Burkert is this year's graduate of the Universität der Künste Berlin, lives and works in Berlin. Despite her young age, she has already exhibited her works in many Berlin galleries, such as: Galerie Friese, Kommunale Galerie, KühlhausBerlin, Galerie oqbo, Kunstraum Keller, as well as the Kunstraum in Potsdam. She co-created exhibitions such as: "Brave New World", "Kunst und Buch", "it´s only the end", "instability". She is interested in bookbinding.

On the 17th of June, 1991, Poland and Germany signed a ‘Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation Treaty’.
This Treaty formed the third part of a ‘triad’ that unfolded as efforts were taken to build a solid foundation for a new quality of Polish-German relations. This triad consisted of:
1. The Reconciliation Mass in Krzyzowa (this opened up new opportunities for dialog),
2. ‘The German-Polish Border Treaty’ (1990) (this treaty settled long standing territorial issued), and thirdly,
3. The ‘Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation Treaty’, (designed to create a solid foundation for political, economic, social, scientific and cultural reconciliation).

Online meeting entitled "Children of Reconciliation", which took place on 9th of June 2021, opened a series of events as part of the "8 x Reconciliation" program on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Polish-German neighborly treaty.

The main part of this event was an interview with Elisabeth Seidler and Wojciech Mazowiecki. Their fathers: Manfred Seidler, spokesman of the Polish Commission of the Bensberg Circle, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratic prime minister, belonged to the generation that, having experienced the drama of World War II, initiated the process of Polish-German reconciliation.

On 14th of June there was an online meeting entitled "Witnesses to the treaty". It was part of a series of "8 x Reconciliation" events on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Treaty of Good Neighbourhood.

Johannes Bauch - former German ambassador to Poland and prof. Jerzy Kranz - former Polish ambassador to Germany, talked about the difficulties in Polish-German relations at the end of the 1980s, which include, above all, the controversy around the border on the Oder and Neisse rivers, as well as the tedious negotiations of the 1990 border treaty and the treaty of good neighbourhood of 1991. Ambassador Bauch emphasized that Polish-German relations - despite the current political tensions - have surprisingly changed for the better over the last 30 years. Both guests agreed that the aforementioned treaties were created and still constitute a stable basis for Polish-German relations only thanks to the fact that people with outstanding diplomatic abilities and great political foresight have worked on their creation.


„Witnesses to the Treaty”
interview with Johannes Bauch and prof. Jerzy Kranz
moderator: Dr. Annemarie Franke

Date: Monday, 14 June 2021 at 6:00 p.m
Place: Online - Zoom webinar https://zoom.us/j/99899983949 (with simultaneous translation into German and Polish)
and live on FB https://www.facebook.com/FundacjaKrzyzowa (without translation)


an event prepared in cooperation with the Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

  1. ||8 x reconciliation|| "Children of reconciliation" - meeting with Elisabeth Seidler and Wojciech Mazowiecki
  2. The project "8 x Reconciliation". EVENT PROGRAMME
  3. German-Polish relations. Can we appreciate what we have achieved? A Reflection on the 30th Anniversary of the Treaty of Good Neighbourhood | | Dr Robert Żurek
  4. Bishop Waldemar Pytel's speech on the 30th anniversary of the Reconciliation Mass – Krzyżowa 12.11.2019

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