The Świdnicka Underpass (Przejście Świdnickie), one of the most distinctive landmarks on the map of Wrocław, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the Passage of Dialogue (Przejście Dialogu), located in this historic space, will open a photography exhibition that takes us back in time and shows how the place has changed over the decades.
Opened in 1975, the Świdnicka Underpass soon became much more than a piece of transport infrastructure. In the decades that followed, it served as an informal hub of city life – a place for meeting people, small-scale trade, and artistic and community activity. For many Wrocław residents, it is a space inseparable from the city’s everyday life.
To celebrate the anniversary, the Wrocław Centre for Social Development (WCRS) invites you to the opening of an exhibition of photographs showing the Świdnicka Underpass before its redevelopment in 2016. The photographs were taken by Łukasz Bąk, Kamil Cichoń, Jakub Kamiński and Marcin Smoła. The exhibition is curated by Karol Krukowski – photographer and co-author of the 2016 booklet “Przejście” (The Passage), which served as the starting point and inspiration for this exhibition.
The opening will take place on Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 17:00 at the Passage of Dialogue (ul. Świdnicka 19, Wrocław). Free entry.
The exhibition will remain on permanent display at the Passage of Dialogue as a tribute to the history of this place.
The exhibition “50 Years of the Świdnicka Underpass” is an opportunity to look back at this space with the benefit of hindsight – as a place that has been part of Wrocław residents’ lives for five decades and continues to change along with the city.