Curator Guided Tour BARBARA PFLAUM

with Karolina Ziębińska (ENG)

Barbara Pflaum (1912–2002) was one of the few women who worked as photojournalists for pictorial magazines in the 1950s. Men dominated this profession in the first two postwar decades, while women in Europe and the United States returned to domestic life. This was not the case for Pflaum, who came across photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she had taken up studies as a 40-year-old divorcée with three children.

Fri, 26.6.2026 4.30 pm

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Wall in the exhibition featuring photographs by Barbara Pflaum

Karolina Ziębińska is a curator and art historian specializing in photography. From 2021 to 2025, she was director of the Museum of Warsaw. Prior to that, she was a curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 2014 to 2020; Ziębińska also worked for ten years at Zachęta—National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. In 2008, she co-founded the Archaeology of Photography Foundation. Karolina Ziębińska has curated over 50 exhibitions and edited numerous publications on photographers of note.

PRACTICAL INFO

Meeting point: MAK Columned Hall
Duration: ca. 1 hour
Language: The tour is held in English.
To ensure a pleasant museum visit, the number of participants per guided tour is limited. We therefore recommend booking the tour in advance to secure your spot.
Guided tour fee: € 5,50 plus admission
In addition to the ticket for the guided tour, an admission ticket is required. The admission ticket can be added to your cart after selecting the event ticket.