Neon signs from Katowice Neon Signs Warehouse: “MILLENIUM Cinema,” “Boże Dary,” “KATOWICE” and four letters from the “MARIACKA” sign will be exhibited for two weeks on a special construction in Plac Szewczyka in front of Galeria Katowicka. A reconstructed neon sign from Randia teahouse will hang on the corner of 3 Maja and Stawowa streets.

The exhibition will take place from November 4 till 18 in two locations. The first one is Plac Szewczyka, where, thanks to the help from Galeria Katowicka, the “MILLENIUM Cinema,” “Boże Dary” and “KATOWICE” signs, as well as four letters from the “MARIACKA” sign will be displayed. A bit further from this – on the corner of Stawowa and 3 Maja Streets – the famous colored teapot from the former Randia teahouse (faithfully reconstructed based on technical documentation by Miłosz Łankiewicz from Neon IRSA) will be installed. The neon had been designed by his father, Zbigniew Łankiewicz, and it used to be one of the hundreds of neon signs that would illuminate the city center in the past.

The neon signs in the city space are presented as a part of REAKTOR KATOWICE*, a project which accompanies the sixteenth installment of Polish Festival of Directorial Art “Interpretations.”

Galeria Katowicka is the project’s partner.