Zofia Rydet – individual and collective exhibitions (selection), prepared by Zofia Augustynska-Martyniak

2026Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record at the Marubi National Museum of Photograph, Shkodër, Albania
2026Zofia Rydet. The Infinity of Distant Roads, exhibition at MS44 Gallery Świnoujście
2025/2026Zofia Rydet: Sociological Record, exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery London
2025Group exhibition Gathering Time – Zofia Rydet, Belfast Exposed Gallery
2025Group exhibition People (Edward Dwurnik, Zofia Rydet, Paweł Althamer), Raster Gallery, as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025
2025Sociological Record, exhibition במסגרת Getxophoto International Image Festival
2025The World of Women through the Lens of Zofia Rydet, Silesian Culture Centre
2025Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre
2025Zofia Rydet – Sociological Record, Historical and Archaeological Museum
2024/2025Zofia Rydet – The World of Feelings and Imagination, Museum of Photography in Kraków
2023/2024Zofia Rydet – Sociological Record, District Museum in Nowy Sącz
2023Village Without a Filter – Zofia Rydet, National Museum of Agriculture and Agro-Food Industry
2023Sopot Artists in Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record, during the Photography Festival Within Sopot, Dworek Sierakowskich
2023Group exhibition Photographic Art. Artistic Photography in Poland 1927–1978, Museum of Photography in Kraków
2023Zofia Rydet. The Infinity of Distant Roads, Raster Gallery
2022Zofia Rydet – Sociological Record 1978–1990, Radom Village Museum
2022Zofia Rydet. Little Man, Vauxhall Visual Arts Gallery
2021Zofia Rydet. I Am on the Right Path, Municipal Bureau of Art Exhibitions
2021Group exhibition March, March Polonia, Nowa Huta Cultural Centre
2021Jerzy Lewczyński. Zofia Rydet. Rhetoric of Emptiness, Katowice City of Gardens Gallery
2020Sociological Record, outdoor exhibition in the streets of Olsztyn
2020The World of Feelings and Imagination, presented at the Gwangju Biennale
2019/2020Group exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, The Wende Museum
2019Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record, as part of the Rzeszów Photography Weekend Patrz! Szeroko, Rzeszów
2019Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record, Regional Museum
2019Group exhibition 1000 HANDS (Rafał Bujnowski, Peter Puklus, Zofia Rydet), Raster Gallery
2019Group exhibition Prototypes 03: Karolina Caycedo and Zofia Rydet. Care Report, Museum of Art in Łódź
2019Zofia Rydet. The Defiance of Distant Roads, Szczecin Philharmonic
2019Group exhibition POLAND for Export, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
2019Zofia Rydet – Documentations: Architecture 1963–1974, Opole Silesia Museum
2014Exhibition Popes, MOCAK, Curator: Katarzyna Wincienciak
2014Exhibition Photo-Object, Galeria BWA in Kielce, Curators: Jagna Olejnikowska, Leszek Golec
2014Exhibition FOTO-OBIEKT, MCSW Elektrownia in Radom, VII Art Festival of Jerzy Busza „RANDOM IN RADOM”, Curators: Jagna Olejnikowska, Leszek Golec
2013Zofia Rydet – Sociological Record, Gallery Ratusz in Zamość, organized by Association of Photographers from Zamość
2013Photoobject – exhibition in terms of Warsaw Photo Days, organized by Association of Polish Artists Photographers (Warsaw) in cooperation with Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko
2013Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record – exhibition in Ethnographic Museum in Ochla
2012Necessary complement, Silesian Museum, cooperation with Foundation’s partner – Silesian Museum
2012Sociological Record, in “Czytelnia Sztuki” in Gliwice, organized by Zofia Rydet Foundation, “Czytelnia Sztuki” and Foundation “Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych”
2012Zofia Rydet, within Photomonth in Sofia, Bulgaria, in cooperation with Polish Institute and Academy of Photography
2012Autographs, in terms of 9th Museums at Night in Warsaw, cooperation with Archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Steel Forest Gallery
2012Zofia Rydet, Municipal Culture Centre of Rabka, cooperation with Association “Kulturowy Gościniec”, Photographic Society of Rabka and Municipal Culture Centre of Rabka
2011Zofia Rydet. The Arc of Realism, within Photoireland Festival, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, Ireland
2011Zofia Rydet, Threat, collective exhibition, Broadway 1602, New York, U.S.A.
2011The arc of realism. Zofia Rydet 1911-1997 – at her 100. birthday anniversary, within the Photofestival in Lodz, The Film Museum, Łódź
2011Zofia Rydet. The beginning, Art New Media Gallery, Warszawa
2011Zofia Rydet/Julia Staniszewska – Little Man/Awaiting, Assymetry Gallery, Warszawa
2010Fotoanrzejozofia, Andrzej Rozycki’s dialogue with the works of Zofia Rydet, Gallery 87, Łódź
2010Scissors and Zofia Rydet, Gallery 87, Łódź
2010Endlessly distant roads. To save from oblivion, ASP Gallery, Warszawa
2010Portraying the surreal – three generations of Polish photography, collective exhibition, WM Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009/10Home- path of existence, collective exhibition, VII Sacrum Art Triennale, The City Art Gallery in Częstochowa
2008Female documentary makers – Polish female photographers of the 20th century. collective exhibition, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa
2008Zofia Rydet. Sentimental photomontage, Assymetry Gallery, Warszawa
2008Zofia Rydet. Sociological record. 1978-1990, Artists’ Retreat in Wigry
2008Sociological record 1978-1990, Cracow’s Photography Month, Starmach Gallery, Kraków
2008Zofia Rydet, Polish Embassy in Hague, Netherlands
2007Residents of Tarnowskie Góry filmed by Zofia Rydet, Museum in Tarnowskie Góry
2007Zofia Rydet: The first lady of Polish photography, Fotogallery Kistemaker, Oldenzaal, Netherlands
2007Polnische Photographie, collective exhibition, Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany
2007Polish photography in the 20th century. collective exhibition, within the Warsaw’s Photography Summer, Palace of Culture and Science, Warszawa
2006Collective exhibition, organiser Museum of Arts in Lodz, Shoto Museum of Art w Tokyo, Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
2006Prodigies and apparitions, Gliwice’s photographic community in the years 1951-2000, collective exhibition, under the patronage of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers, within the Gliwice?s Photography Month, Department of Museum in Gliwice- Caro Villa ,Gliwice
2003Zofia Rydet, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
2001Zofia Rydet. To stop the time, St. Fischer Museum in Bochnia
2001Zofia Rydet. Photographs, Gaude Mater Culture Promotion Centre, Częstochowa
2000Zofia Rydet. Photographs, National Museum in Wrocław
1999Zofia Rydet. Photographs, Higher Silesian Culture Centre in Katowice
1999Zofia Rydet, Passing time, FF Gallery in Łódz
1999Zofia Rydet. Photographs, Museum of Arts in Lódz

 

Zofia Rydet – individual exhibitions (selection), prepared by Urszula Czartoryska

1997Hommage and Zofia Rydet (post-mortem exhibition), Douchy les Mines, Centre Regional de la Photographie, France
1995/6Photos of Passing World. Higher Silesia, Budapest, Polish Institute
1995Zofia Rydet. Photographs. Silesian reminiscences. Gliwice, Museum in Gliwice under ARS CAMERALIS Festival
1993Endlessly distant roads. Typical man – portrayals, Gliwice, Museum in Gliwice, City Council Gallery
1992The World of Emotions and Imagination, Gliwice, PIK Gallery Zofia Rydet, Douchy les Mines, France
1991The World of Emotions and Imagination, Rabka, “At the Angel” Gallery The World of Emotions and Imagination, Katowice, the Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers (ZPAF) Zofia Rydet, Katowice, BWA
1990Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record 1978-1990, Łódź, Photography Forum Gallery Zofia Rydet. Sociological Record. Douchy-France 1988, Lódz, Lódz Photographic Community Gallery
1989Zofja Rydet. Fotografijos paroda, Kowno, Fotografijos Galerijoje
1988Sociological Record, Douchy les Mines, France
1987Endlessly distant roads, Lądek Zdrój, Elementary Photography Gallery Open-air photos and show, Suwałki, Photography Gallery
1986The World of Emotions and Imagination, Endlessly distant roads, Lublin, Home- Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Lodz, St.Christopher’s Nave Presence and record, Jubilee Exhibition, Katowice, the Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers (ZPAF) Time and picture of North-Eastern Poland, Gliwice
1985The World of Emotions and Imagination, Świdnica, Photography Gallery
1984Sociological Record Katowice, Gallery of the Graphic Department of the Academy of Art
1981Endlessly distant roads, Poznań, Od Nowa Gallery
1980Sociological Record under the exhibition: Quests 79, Bydgoszcz Endlessly distant roads, Gdańsk, Galeria GN
1968Time of Passing, Toruń, Photography Gallery
1967Mały człowiek, Bucharest
1964Time of Passing, Warszawa, “Zacheta” Gallery
1962Little Man, Bytom, District Museum
1961Little Man, Gliwice, Gallery of the Gliwice Photographic Society

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