Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) is best known worldwide as a brilliant science fiction writer, but his literary legacy also includes crime and autobiographical novels, essays, apocrypha, and a variety of genre-transcending texts. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have a combined print run of over 30 million copies.

Written in the 1960s and 1970s, Lem's books are about phenomena and things that, years later, have become reality. He foresaw e-books, tablets, audiobooks, the internet, the Google search browser, smartphones, the 3D printer, virtual reality. His work inspired the game The Sims.

This exhibition features illustrations from Robot Tales, published in Estonia and Lithuania in 2021 to mark the writer's 100th birthday. In Poland, the Robot Tales were included in the school curriculum in 1964. In the same year, the first IBM 360-series computer was introduced to the world, the first program written in basic programming language was developed and launched, and a rocket was launched towards the moon.
The exhibition presents the book's illustrations in an original and unusual way - not the complete works, but fragments of them are displayed, they are hidden in the space of the fairy tales, they take on three-dimensional form and become elements of spatial constructs, generating new meaning.

The story was illustrated by the following illustrators: Edgar Bąk, Katarzyna Bogucka, Zosia Dzierżawska, Gosia Herba, Rita Kaczmarska, Paweł Mildner, Dawid Ryski, Katarzyna Walentynowicz
Exhibition Curator Magdalena Kłos-Podsiadło / studio
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