- Willa Lentza
- 18-05-2024, Saturday, at 8:00 pm - Free entrance
As during the previous annual European Nights of Museums, The Willa Lentza opens on Saturday 18th May between 8 and 11.30 p.m.
Long Night of Museums
As during the previous annual European Nights of Museums, The Willa Lentza opens on Saturday 18th May between 8 and 11.30 p.m.
Apart from the historical interiors, our visitors will be able to see our permanent (Willa Lentza. History (A)new) and temporary exhibitions (Lex Drewinski at the Lentz Villa and Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors). Excerpts from our spectacles (1888. Villa of Love, Frida: A Collector from Szczecin's Westend, and Old Clown Wanted) will be staged at the theatre-and-cinema hall.
You will also be able to do sightseeing in the Villa with members of the METRUM Association for Historical Reconstruction, who revive European customs from the turn of the 19th and 20th century in a truly fascinating manner. These history lovers (who in their daily lives represent professions as varied as economists, philologists, historians, engineers, musicians, teachers, craftsmen, and academics) have been united by their shared passion for ages past.
A cabinet of curiosities – an additional outdoor attraction for visitors to Szczecin’s artistic salon!
The Willa Lentza garden hosts another artistic installation – a cube, 3 x 4 x 3 metres, constructed of light wooden elements as a ‘cabinet of curiosities’. The project was created by the artistic duo of Paweł Kleszczewski and Katarzyna Zimnoch of Konik Studio.
The interior of this cube is a kind of mini-gallery, in the manner of the cabinets of curiosities popular in the 17th century, that is, rooms or cabinets filled with drawers, display cases and shelves, on which such objects as drawings, sculptures, figurines, mini-installations, window paintings, etc., were exhibited.
The cabinet can be observed from two perspectives:
1. From the front (entrance to the garden), visitors will spot a ‘weird’, oversized cabinet filled with various pieces and forms of contemporary art created by the Zimnoch / Kleszczewski team.
2. On approaching this cubic form, visitors are invited to enter a ‘salon’, in which an art exhibition has been arranged and can be inspected closely.
The cabinet, made up of decorative elements covered with fluorescent paintings, alludes to the art of woodcarving. Halogen lamps arranged in garden space cast shafts of light onto this installation, which thus enters into a fine dialogue with the historical form of the villa itself.
The cabinet of curiosities at the Lentz Villa was inspired by the Kunstkammer of Phillip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1573-1618), residing in our city, who combined artistic patronage with a collector’s passion.
You will also be able to do sightseeing in the Villa with members of the METRUM Association for Historical Reconstruction, who revive European customs from the turn of the 19th and 20th century in a truly fascinating manner. These history lovers (who in their daily lives represent professions as varied as economists, philologists, historians, engineers, musicians, teachers, craftsmen, and academics) have been united by their shared passion for ages past.
A cabinet of curiosities – an additional outdoor attraction for visitors to Szczecin’s artistic salon!
The Willa Lentza garden hosts another artistic installation – a cube, 3 x 4 x 3 metres, constructed of light wooden elements as a ‘cabinet of curiosities’. The project was created by the artistic duo of Paweł Kleszczewski and Katarzyna Zimnoch of Konik Studio.
The interior of this cube is a kind of mini-gallery, in the manner of the cabinets of curiosities popular in the 17th century, that is, rooms or cabinets filled with drawers, display cases and shelves, on which such objects as drawings, sculptures, figurines, mini-installations, window paintings, etc., were exhibited.
The cabinet can be observed from two perspectives:
1. From the front (entrance to the garden), visitors will spot a ‘weird’, oversized cabinet filled with various pieces and forms of contemporary art created by the Zimnoch / Kleszczewski team.
2. On approaching this cubic form, visitors are invited to enter a ‘salon’, in which an art exhibition has been arranged and can be inspected closely.
The cabinet, made up of decorative elements covered with fluorescent paintings, alludes to the art of woodcarving. Halogen lamps arranged in garden space cast shafts of light onto this installation, which thus enters into a fine dialogue with the historical form of the villa itself.
The cabinet of curiosities at the Lentz Villa was inspired by the Kunstkammer of Phillip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1573-1618), residing in our city, who combined artistic patronage with a collector’s passion.
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