Mail Art based on his Collection of Aphorisms
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) is arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century. Authors influenced by his work include Kobo Abe, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Leena Krohn, Gabriel García Márquez, Sadegh Hedayat, Haruki Murakami, and Zong Pu.
2024 marked the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, and the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow was eager to find out how contemporary artists see the genius from Prague – who wanted his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished works. To this end, they launched a call for mail art based on Kafka’s collection of aphorisms “Meditations on Sin, Hope, Suffering and the True Path”, widely known in German as “Die Zürauer Aphorismen”.
More than 200 artists from 34 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas sent around 300 works. As not all artists adhered to the guidelines, some of the contributions deal with other works by the author.
The title illustration shows works by Filip Kamiński, Gerald Jatzek, and Maks Dannecker. A largeer version can be downloaded here.
The Exhibition
KAFKA – International Mail Art
pl. Matejki 13
Kraków, Poland
February 20, 2026–April 2026
Online Exhibitions
The Participants
1. Meral Ağar – Turkey, 2. Tomasz Awdziejczyk – Poland, 3. Monika K. Adler – Poland, 4. Zbigniew Bajek – Poland, 5. Esmael Bakr – Egypt, 6. Kroly Balajti – Romania, 7. Joanna Banek – Poland, 8. Kasia Barwa – Poland, 9. Melanie Bäreis – Germany, 10. Lutz Beeke – Germany, 11. Pablo Gallardo Bellido – Spain, 12. Maria Jose Bellido Jimenez – Spain, 13. Pedro Bericat – Spain , 14. Anju Bharati – India, 15. Marcin Blaszke – Poland, 16. Matylda Błaszyk – Poland, 17. Junmoni Bora – India , 18. Maria do Carmo Both – Brasil , 19. Zdenek Bugáň – Slovakia , 20. Ewa Rosiek – Buszko – Poland, 21. Verdiana Calia E Mattia Montemezzani – Italy , 22. Ricardo Cardoso – Portugal , 23. Christiane Carre – France , 24. Catanzaro Claudia – Argentina , 25. Joanna Cichoń – Poland, 26. Elsa Olga Chaves – Argentina , 27. Bruno Chiarlone – Italy , 28. Tymoteusz Chliszcz – Poland, 29. Andrzej Chmiel – Poland , 30. Gabriela Chowaniec – Poland, 31. Natalia Chudzik – Poland, 32. Maurizio Collini – Italy , 33. Devin Cohen – USA , 34. Ryosuke Cohen – Japan, 35. Vineeta Colaso – India, 36. Nani Corina – Romania, 37. Melinda Csibi – Hungary , 38. Maria Czerniecka – Poland, 39. Renata Danicek – Brasil , 40. Maks Dannecker – Germany, 41. Fidels Daughter – Germany, 42. Saurav Das – India, 43. Binod Dawadi – Nepal , 44. Alessandra Degni-Simona Sarti – Italy , 45. Sherry Dorairaj – India , 46. Mateusz Deryniowski – Poland, 47. Edyta Dzierż – Poland , 48. Türkan Elçi – Turkey, 49. Emad Omar Elfarouk – Egypt, 50. Lisanyi Endro – Hungary , 51. Bandini Fabrizo – Italy, 52. Zuzanna Flasińska – Poland, 53. Marta Frąckowiak – Poland , 54. Martyna Gałęzowska – Poland, 55. Julia Garbat – Poland, 56. Claudio Gavina – Italy , 57. Jeanette Geissier – Germany , 58. Elżbieta Gibulska – Poland, 59. Gabriela Gleń – Poland, 60. Michał Godlewski – Poland , 61. Vlado Goreski – Slovenia, 62. Mariusz Gosławski – Poland , 63. Anita Grobelak – Poland , 64. Guroga – Venezuela , 65. Henry Grahn Hermunen and Rikard Larsson-Eng – Sweden , 66. Babita Hundal – India, 67. Suzlee Ibrahim – Malaysia , 68. Eleni Ioannou – Greece , 69. Alexandru Jakabhazi – Romania , 70. Eduard Jakabhazi – Romania , 71. Zbyněk Janáček – Czech Republic, 72. Tomasz Jarczyński – Poland, 73. Anita Jarosz – Poland , 74. Gerald Jatzek – Austria , 75. Agnieszka Jakóbik – Poland , 76. Miguel Jimenez – Spain , 77. Ada Jurczak-Łowkis – Poland,, 78. Róża Juchniewicz – Poland, 79. Piotr Kaczmarczyk – Poland, 80. Magdalena Kaczorowska – Poland, 81. Michał Kaleta – Poland, 82. Filip Kamiński – Poland , 83. Maciej Kania – Poland, 84. Gloria Keh – Singapore , 85. Dorota Kilichowska – Poland, 86. Dariusz Kindler – Poland , 87. Maxima Maria Kinsky – Spain , 88. Fergana Kocadoru Özgör – Turkey , 89. Ewa Kolarz – Poland, 90. Diana Kopeć – Poland, 91. Wojciech Kopeć – Poland, 92. Martin Kos – Czech Republic, 93. Jolanta Kuśmierska – Poland, 94. Aneta Kuśmierz – Poland, 95. Ritika Kumari – India, 96. Serafine Christine Kratzke – Germany, 97. Iwona Kręciwilk – Poland, 98. Iwa Kruczkowska – Poland , 99. Uliana Krutko – Ukraine, 100. Kinga Królik – Poland,
101. Zlatko Krstevski – Macedonia, 102. Justyna Krzemianowska – Poland, 103. Jędrzej Krzyszkowski – Poland, 104. Aleksandra Książek – Poland , 105. Luis Maria Labrador – Spain, 106. Aneta Lazurek – Poland, 107. Aneta Liczberska – Poland, 108. Biró Lidikó – Hungary , 109. Julia Lipska – Poland , 110. Virginie Loreau – France , 111. Adriana Lucaciu – Romania , 112. Weronika Aurelia Łapińska – Floramedicus Artist – Poland, 113. Katarzyna Łowicka – Poland, 114. Zuzanna Maciejczyk – Poland , 115. Bernard Mailer – Germany , 116. Krystian Maj – Poland, 117. Krystyna Malinowska – Poland , 118. Katerina Mandarik – France, 119. Rohini Manindra – India , 120. Tirujyoti Borah Manas – India, 121. Martyna Mandziak – Poland, 122. Rebeca Martell – Mexico , 123. Sakshi Maurya – India , 124. Aleksandra Michalczyk – Poland, 125. Michelangelo Mayo – USA , 126. Tina Milazzo – Italy, 127. Justyna Mężyk – Poland , 128. Pedro Pablo Gallardo Montero – Spain, 129. Natalia Muranowicz – Poland , 130. Karolina Mysłek – Poland, 131. Natalia Mróz – Poland, 132. Alcit Nabihan – Malaysia , 133. Keiichi Nakamura – Japan , 134. Biljana Tolevska Naumovska – Macedonia, 135. Zbigniew Narożniak – Poland, 136. Jacek Niepołomski – Poland, 137. Christa Niestrath – Germany , 138. Grzegorz Nowicki – Poland, 139. Zilahi Nono – Romania, 140. Irina Novikova – Belarus , 141. Juan Fran Núñez Parreño – Spain, 142. Deniz Özeskici – Turkey, 143. Fergana Kocadoru Özgör – Turkey, 144. Cumhur Okay Özgür – Turkey , 145. Przemysław Paliwoda – Poland, 146. Cristiano Pallara – Italy, 147. Natalia Panczenko – Poland, 148. Mousumi Patnaik – India, 149. Fabrizio Pavolucci – Italy , 150. Luisela Pelizza – Brasil , 151. Wiktoria Penar – Poland, 152. Silvano Pertone – Italy , 153. Maria Grazia Piazza – Italy, 154. Bruno Pierozzi – Italy , 155. Aleksandra Pieczykolan – Poland, 156. Gabriela Picheta – Poland, 157. Gabriela Piechowska – Poland, 158. Julia Piróg – Poland – 2024, 159. Zbigniew Piszczako – Poland , 160. Janusz Plota – Poland , 161. Małgorzata Pohl – Poland , 162. Hugo Pontes – Brasil, 163. Veronique Pozzi Paine – Italy , 164. Olga Psiuch – Poland, 165. Sandra Puton – Poland, 166. Radoslav Rochallyi – Czech Republic , 167. Sofia Rodriguez Fernandez – Mexico, 168. Adam Rokowski – Poland , 169. Marcia Rosenberger – Brasil , 170. Wolfgang Rostek – Germany , 171. Luqman Rosnan – Malaysia, 172. Refye – Turkey, 173. Elżbieta Anna Sadkowski – Poland , 174. Panuwat Sangiam – Thailand , 175. Carmela Sarcina – Italy , 176. Agnieszka Sawicka – Poland , 177. Roberto Scala – Italy , 178. Lars Schumacher – Germany , 179. Susanne Schumacher – Germany , 180. Mamta Sharma – India , 181. Ranjana Sharma – India , 182. Rumita Sharma – India, 183. Marek Sibinský – Czech Republic, 184. Gülçin Kanar Şimşek – Turkey, 185. Sumit Sinha – India , 186. Karolina Kindler-Skowronek – Poland , 187. Kateryna Solovei – Ukraine, 188. Spike Spence – Canada , 189. Giovanni and Renata StraDa Da Performers – Italy , 190. Andrea Streicher – Spain , 191. Judith Sturm – Spain , 192. Grzegorz Szmidt – Poland , 193. Zbigniew Szot – Poland, 194. Weronika Szymańska – Poland , 195. Stephen Tomasko – USA, 196. Lois Torres – Philippines, 197. Horst Tress – Germany , 198. Simon Warren – Great Britain , 199. Zdzisław Wiatr – Poland , 200. Waldemar Wierzba – Poland, 201. Agnieszka Wójtowicz – Poland , 202. Izabela Sehn-Wójcik – Poland , 203. Marek Vanek – Slovakia, 204. Stella Maris Velasco – Argentina , 205. Toan Vinh La – Canada , 206. Rittiner & Gomez – Switzerland , 207. Fatima Żaczek – Poland
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