An exhibition documenting the birth and development of the Bloomsbury Group, an artistic collective which used to meet near Bloomsbury in London, in on at the International Centre of Culture in Kraków.

On display are memorabilia and works of art relating to the British bohemians from the circle of the writer Virginia Woolf and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell.

It is the first comprehensive presentation of the artists, intellectuals and philosophers who exerted a tangible influence on the cultural and literary scene in Britain and elsewhere from 1905 till the outbreak of World War Two.

Apart from Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the Bloomsbury Group included the painters Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, the writers Vita Sackville-West, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey and David Garnett, the economists John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, the lawyer Thoby Stephen, the art critic Clive Bell, and the musician Saxon Sydney-Turner. The exhibition features a selection of paintings, woodcuts and lithographs by Vanessa Bell, Grant, Fry and Carrington, as well as ceramics, furniture and crafts.

The International Centre of Culture, which is located in the Main Market Square of Kraków, invites visitors to a wide range of side-line events such as lectures, open days, films and workshops for children.

The exhibition is open till 9 January, 2011. (mk)