The exhibition is a presentation of the work of twelve contemporary artists who, at the invitation of the curators of the exhibition - dr hab. Irma Kozina and dr. Patryk Oczki - they undertook a specific dialogue with history, paying tribute with their work to women active in industrial Upper Silesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The exhibition presents contemporary artists creatively related to our region, working in various mediums (painting, graphics, clothing design, graphic design, documentary film). They include: Anita Baenisch-Juda, Judyta Bernaś, Agnieszka Cieślińska-Kawecka, Dorota Hadrian, Ewa De Iulis Błaszak, Ilona Kanclerz, Weronika Siupka, Sybilla Skałuba, Monika Starowicz, Agata Szymanek, Ewa Zawadzka and Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek. The artists, at the invitation of the exhibition curators - dr hab. Irma Kozina and dr. Patryk Oczki - they undertook a specific dialogue with history, paying tribute with their work to women active in industrial Upper Silesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among them we can find representatives of the aristocracy (Daisy Hochberg von Pless) and great Silesian industrial families (Waleska von Tiele-Winckler, Mother Ewa von Tiele-Winckler, La Païva - Blanka Henckel von Donnersmarck, Fryderyka Karolina von Reden, Joanna von Schaffgotsch), post-war architects from Tychy (Hanna Adamczewska-Wejchert and Maria Czyżewska "Murka"), as well as outstanding scientists (Nobel Prize winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer) and artists (actress Aleksandra Śląska, costume designer Barbara Ptak). It is an exhibition proposal not only for those who follow trends in contemporary art, but also touches on important threads of local herstory in a wider European context, showing their importance and topicality.