EXHIBITION OF ICONS created as part of the FACES OF LIGHT project - POLISH UKRAINIAN MEETINGS OF SACRED ART CREATORS ✨ December 17, 2025 - February 1, 2026 Curator Mateusz Środoń, the Dobry Grunt Foundation, and the Ukrainian KIK Action invite you to the exhibition of icons DODEKAORTON - AROUND THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION. On Wednesday, December 17, Holy Mass at 6:00 PM will be celebrated by Bishop Michał Janocha, who has taken honorary patronage over the exhibition. After the Holy Mass, we invite you to a guided tour with the curator. The exhibition will be open to visitors on the following dates: IN DECEMBER 2025: - December 17, after Holy Mass at 6:00 PM - December 21, Sunday, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - December 28, Sunday, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - January 4, Sunday, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM IN JANUARY 2026: - January 6, Presentation of the Lord, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Every Sunday until February 1 inclusive - Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Fridays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM About the exhibition and the open-air workshop For the fourth time since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, a group of Polish and Ukrainian artists met to pray together for peace and work on the great themes of Christian art, gathered in the Western Tradition in the cycle of the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, and in the Eastern Tradition forming the DODEKAORTON – a set of twelve great feasts of the liturgical year. This year, six people from Ukraine and eight from Poland participated in the two-week open-air workshop. Works were also sent by Dmytro Horditsa from Kyiv, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and could not come to Poland, and Michał Płoski from Kielce. The exhibition presents the results of last year's and this year's open-air workshops, which cover three themes related to the Mystery of the Incarnation, in which God reveals His Love: - Annunciation - Visitation of St. Elizabeth - Birth of Jesus Christ The Annunciation is the first moment of such great closeness between God and man. Through the words of St. Elizabeth, the reality of the Mystery of the Incarnation is revealed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who responds by singing the beautiful hymn of thanksgiving – Magnificat. The Birth of Christ is a revelation, whose participants, besides Mary and Joseph, are shepherds and wise men, symbolizing the whole world awaiting the Messiah. In a broader sense, all people are participants in this revelation, who from that moment can truly touch the Mystery of the Incarnation. The open-air meetings of Polish and Ukrainian artists engaged in sacred art are part of the initiative of Political Theology "Paint Catholicism Anew," which aims to renew sacred art in the Western Church. The workshops have a charitable dimension. Works created during the open-air workshops supported by the Dobry Grunt Foundation and the Ukrainian KIK Action are then presented at exhibitions and ultimately sold at auctions, the proceeds of which fund respite camps for children and wives of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, organized by the Ukrainian KIK Action. Come in large numbers! painting author: Anna Kopeć-Gibas graphic design authors: Urszula Dubiniec + Hanna Kobylińska
