This year's edition of the original project by the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk began with the unveiling of a mural promoting the third edition of the Festival. A memorable event of the Lost Culture Festival was a concert by performer O.S.T.R., in which he premiered songs from his new album ‘XX’, created in collaboration with the Museum. The third edition of the Festival concluded with a dance party at the Elektryków venue, performed by the Small Dance Orchestra.
On May 18th, 2024, the third edition of the Lost Culture Festival kicked off with the unveiling of a mural by Marcin Czaja. On the gable wall of a tenement house on Grunwaldzka Avenue, we can now admire a dynamic composition featuring Zofia Stryjeńska, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), and Henryk Wars—representatives of various fields of the interwar Polish artistic community: visual arts, literature, theater, and music. The artists are accompanied by two paintings. The first is one of the most valuable paintings from the Polish collection lost during the war, Raphael Santi's ‘Portrait of a Young Man.’ The second is a portrait study of a young woman by Leon Wyczółkowski. By including these paintings in his composition, the author references the numerous losses suffered by Polish collections in both domestic and foreign art.
