WHEN LAUGHTER WAS OUR SHIELD

A presentation of drawings and cartoons published or prepared for print in Polish press before 13th December 1981, and – particularly after that date – as underground publications in samizdat, in foreign press, or created without hope for publication.

From the collections of: The Eryk Lipiński Museum Of Caricature, Maciej Łukasiewicz’s Family, Jerzy Brukwicki, and the artists.

Andrzej Adamowicz, Tomasz Bogusławski, Julian Bohdanowicz, Jan Bokiewicz, Stanisław Bukowski, Antoni Chodorowski, Andrzej Czeczot, Andrzej Dudziński (ps. Jan Kowalski), Jacek Fedorowicz, Jerzy Flisak, Jacek Frankowski, Wiesław Fuglewicz, Zygmunt Januszewski, Michał Jędrczak, Zbigniew Jujka, Janusz Kapusta, Szymon Kobyliński, Wojciech Kołyszko, Andrzej Krauze, Zbigniew Lengren, Edward Lutczyn, Monika Łobodzińska, Sławomir Łuczyński, Edmund Mańczak, Jerzy Medyński, Andrzej Mleczko, Piotr Młodożeniec, Waldemar Moszkowski, Sławomir Mrożek, Leszek Ołdak, Stefan Papp, Andrzej Piekarski, Maciej Pietrzyk, Szczepan Sadurski, Eugeniusz Skorwider, Jacek Staniszewski, Stanisław Szczuka, Zbigniew Ziomecki (ps. Andrzej Gall) and other unknown ones.

Exhibition concept: Elżbieta Laskowska
Collaboration: Paulina Pilcicka
Consultant: Jerzy Brukwicki
Poster graphic design and typography: Tomasz Rupociński, Labografia
Board graphic design: Izabela Bartnik
Media relations: Michalina Musielik-Wypych
English translation: Tomasz Zymer