29 X 2024 - 9 III 2025, Main Building. Tenement house bourgeois, 9 Ks. J. Szafranka St., 40-025 Katowice
Museum open to the public:
Monday................................ closed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday... 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday........................................ 10.00 - 16.00
Sunday and holidays......................... 11.00 - 15.00
The exhibition of photographs by Waldemar Jama is the first such large-scale retrospective show of the artist's work at the Museum of the History of Katowice. There are thirty-three of Jama's photographs in our collection, from different periods of his work. However, these are not many, so in the exhibition they have become only a supplement to works selected from the rich collections of the author himself. The arrangement of the works in the exhibition is, as far as possible, chronological, which makes it possible to trace the evolution taking place in Jama's work, as well as to note which subjects are invariably close to the artist over the years, but are still being rediscovered and processed. The title of the exhibition proposed by the artist, Restart, seems to sum up and close the period of his work so far, but it also gives hope for a new chapter. Sophia Szota (curator of the exhibition).
Waldemar Jama Was born in 1942 in Praszka. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. Since the 1960s he has been involved in documentary and creative photography. Since 1973 he has been a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers, where he also serves as a member of the Art Council. In addition, he is an expert on photography at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2004 he was awarded the title of professor of fine arts. For many years he was a lecturer of photography at the Academies of Fine Arts in Katowice and Gdansk. He is the author of many significant solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. He received art scholarships from the Minister of Culture and Art in 1981 and 1998, and is the recipient of many awards and decorations, including the silver medal "Meritorious to Culture Gloria Artis" in 2009. He lives and works in Katowice (information from the website of the Museum of the History of Katowice).