10 December 2024 – 19 January 2025
Curators of the exhibition: Barbara Andruszkiewicz (MNWr), Joanna Kurbiel (ME), Joanna Burda (MDK “Śródmieście”)
The exhibition shows a few dozen examples of the Nativity scene, which were awarded prizes in the Regional Sculpture Competition “The Most Beautiful Crib 2024”.
The competition is organised annually by the gallery promoting arts among young people [Galeria Twórczości Plastycznej Młodych] operating at MDK “Śródmieście”. Every year, pupils from schools in Lower Silesia approach anew the subject, proposing various, and frequently surprising own interpretations of the scene of the Nativity of the Lord.
The young artists use a whole variety of materials and techniques: ceramics, glass, cardboard, plasticine, as well as natural resources like wood, leaves, bark, moss, stones, not to mention bread, pasta, biscuits, and many recycled objects, e.g. bottles and CDs. Their imagination knows no limits which contributes to the creation of these extraordinary works.
This year, the competition works will be accompanied by Nativity scenes from the collections of the National Museum in Wrocław – from baroque to almost contemporary.