Past Exhibitions

Printing Icons: Modern Process, Medieval Image explores how print and icon painting interacted from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The exhibition showcases works from the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Russia. It illuminates how traditional techniques, such as printing icons from traced panels, shaped the perception of woodblocks and engravings. It also shows how Western techniques transformed icon painting itself.

Printing Icons brings together over sixty works from seven institutions and private collections. It explores the methods used to create these iconic prints, examining the tensions between printers who used traditional techniques and those who relied on new processes. The exhibition also highlights the relationship between standalone prints and book illustrations.