In 1987, Andrzej Wajda was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize (the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize). The prize money went to the Kyoto-Kraków Foundation, which he set up together with his wife Krystyna Zachwatowicz.
The foundation's main aim was to build a museum to present Feliks "Manggha" Jasieński's famous collection of Japanese art. Thanks to the commitment of numerous people, since 1994, old Japanese art as well as contemporary works can be admired in the Manggha Centre for Japanese Art and Technology, one of the most beautiful museum buildings in Poland. The building was designed by the world-famous architect Arata Izosaki.
The exhibition presents a small, selected but representative part of the collections of the Manggha Museum in Krakow and shows the phenomenon of a modern museum institution that functions as a space for intercultural dialogue, openness and creative exchange between East and West, consciously linking it to Düsseldorf as the centre of the Japanese community in Europe. (Source: d:Art/Cultural Office)
Exhibition duration: 16 April to 15 August 2026
