Where the Line Becomes a Story... Witold Chomicz 1910-1984

The Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka is showing an exhibition on Witold Chomicz (1910-1984) in the Teatralnia, the temporary-exhibition hall of its palace and park complex. Chomicz was a graphic artist and illustrator whose work was built around the line - its rhythm, gesture and narrative power.

The Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka on the exhibition (translated from the museum’s Polish text; the museum publishes no English version of this page):

The temporary exhibition “Where the Line Becomes a Story… Witold Chomicz (1910-1984)”, organised from the collection of Mr Ziyad Raoof, is an unconventional presentation of an artistic personality seen through the lens of a varied studio practice. It does not record a chronology or lay out an artistic biography. It does not stop at a monographic treatment. It offers insight into the creative process - the stages of a work’s making, the choice of means and artistic expression, the search for technique, the making of the artwork, the materialising of the artist’s vision.

What to expect

The exhibition surveys Chomicz’s graphic and illustration work, displayed in the Teatralnia - a separate exhibition hall within the palace and park complex, outside the palace itself, which houses the permanent residential interiors of the Zamoyski family. Curator Monika Bordzoł chose to skip a life-story layout in favour of a workshop view: oil paintings, artistic prints, stained-glass designs, postage-stamp designs and commercial-print work hang side by side, so you see the same hand move from easel painting to postcard without a drop in craft. This rewards a visitor who likes looking closely at technique, not one hunting for a single showpiece for a photo - the effect here comes from the series, not from any one exhibit.

Tickets, opening hours and current information are available on the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka’s website .

Context

Witold Chomicz (1910-1984) was born in Kyiv but grew up in Lublin, where his family moved in 1920 after the Polish-Soviet War - as a schoolboy there he co-founded the avant-garde art group “Elipsa” and finished his art secondary school, which is why museum director Andrzej Pruszkowski points to the Lublin region, not Kraków, as the place that shaped him. He trained at the Kraków School of Decorative Arts and then at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts; from 1950 he was a professor at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, heading its Department of Book Graphics and training a generation of illustrators. Beyond book illustration he designed stained glass - including five windows, “Golden Age of Polish Culture and Science”, for Collegium Novum at the Jagiellonian University - as well as postage stamps and the postcard series “Historic Polish Cities”.

Tickets and time

The temporary exhibition in the Teatralnia has its own ticket: 12 PLN standard, 8 PLN reduced, 10 PLN for visitors aged 60+; children under 7 enter free. All four single-visit passes also cover it: the pass with the palace (80/60/70 PLN), the exhibitions-only pass without the palace (55/40/45 PLN) and two passes for Large Family Card holders (60 PLN and 50 PLN per person). The palace pass only pays off from the third display: the palace and Chomicz bought separately cost 72 PLN, and adding the “Socrealizm” Art Gallery brings that to 94 PLN. Free Tuesdays apply to the palace alone - the museum states plainly that the other exhibitions are charged per the price list, so you need a ticket for Chomicz on a Tuesday too (price list , in Polish).

Until 31 October the Teatralnia opens Tuesday to Friday 10:00-15:00 and Saturday to Sunday 10:00-16:00; from 2 to 29 November, the last day of the show, it opens 10:00-15:00. The museum is closed on Mondays and on 1 and 11 November (opening hours , in Polish). Allow 30-45 minutes for the show alone; add more if this is your first visit and you want the palace too. This is a show for bibliophiles, print collectors and anyone curious about printmaking craft - young children are likely to get bored, since there is nothing interactive. English on site: labels for this exhibition are Polish-only; the museum’s visitor page mentions foreign-language recordings elsewhere on site, but no English-language tours or audio guide are advertised for this show specifically.

From July the museum ran a series of curator-led tours of the exhibition, usually included in the exhibition ticket. The 20 September tour, part of European Heritage Days, was free, and on 27 September the curators Magdalena Laskowska and Monika Bordzoł led the tour. The last tour of the exhibition in the museum’s cultural programme was scheduled for 18 October; the museum has announced no later one.

What the press says

Radio Lublin (13 June 2026, JPie): covered the opening as a show about the artist’s workshop rather than his biography - article (Polish only). In it the curator Monika Bordzoł says: “We wanted to show his output differently than biographically”, and then: “It was about presenting Witold Chomicz’s artistic output through his craft” (our translation).

Updates

• 2026-09-30 - Correction: the exhibition is in the Teatralnia, the temporary-exhibition hall of the palace and park complex, not in the palace rooms as this page previously said (exhibition page , opening hours , both in Polish).

Museum profile: Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka .