About the Foundation

We are a group of friends. We were united by the need to give, the search for beauty in every person, the search for beauty in art, the search for what unites…

For many years we have been working effectively in the area of culture, charity and dialogue between religions. We organize concerts, exhibitions, film screenings. Our guests were Alicja Paleta - Bugaj, Tomasz Bugaj, Adam Ferency, Aleksandra Bugaj, Antonina Krzysztoń, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Adam Strug, Jacek Kleyff and many others.

A special figure that unites us is the person of Samuel Willenberg: Israeli artist, prisoner of Treblinka, participant of the Warsaw Uprising. We want to present him to the world and carry his message.

The Good Ground Foundation is a patron of art, primarily icons, but promotes artists from other fields of culture too. The Foundation is actively involved in care for the harmony and beauty of the sacred space by organizing seminars and meetings.

What we do

Bringing the last sculpture of Samuel Willenberg to Poland and including it the IPN exhibition “The Picture of Treblinka in the Eyes of Samuel Willenberg” 2020-2022, The painting of Treblinka in the (vision) of Samuel Willenberg.

Exhibition: „Samuel Willenberg - Hero of Two Nations” in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, The Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw and the Czestochowa Museum

Publishing of the bilingual album „Samuel Willenberg – Hero of Two Nations” which we invite you to view and purchase through samuelwillenberg.org

Actions supporting the victims of the war in Ukraine. In cooperation with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw we organized auction of icons - religious paintings of Polish and Ukrainian artisans. All the proceeds from this auction were donated to the organization of therapeutic and recreational retreats for Ukrainian children whose fathers were killed or wounded in the war. Co-organisation of the exhibition Faces of War at the Norblin Factory in Warsaw. Funding a generator for the Ukrainian city of Kolomyi.

Together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw we organized the worldwide prayer for peace in Ukraine and around the world. Invitation to this prayer went to all the christian communities, Greek church, Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical churches.

Icon exhibitions, painting workshops and seminars

Together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw on initiative of Mateusz Środoń we organize the artistic workshops of painting the icons, involving Polish and Ukrainian (refugees from Ukraine) artists of religious art. Our workshops, exhibitions and seminars that accompany them are at the same time initiating a broader dialogue on restoration of the sacred art in Poland. So far, we have shown our icons at exhibitions in Warsaw, Kraków, Częstochowa, Supraśl and Oświęcim.

Patronage of sacred art – icons can be viewed in the section „Founded icons”

Organizing, together with the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw, pilgrimage to Markowa to participate in the celebration of the beatification of the Ulm Family. The pilgrimage was preceded by a joint vigil before the image of the blessed Ulm family by Mateusz Środoń, which was then donated to the Museum of Poles Saving Jews During World War II in Markowa.

Saving monuments, integrating and strengthening cooperation of local communities and descendants of former residents committed to preserve the historical memory. We have initiated a project to restore the chapel in the Municipality of Dąbrowa Zielona, and care of the old manorial park. We are working towards mounting a plaque commemorating the Tymowski family in the Church of St. Anne near Przyrów.

Founded icons

Icons for the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross: Blessed Mother Rosa Czacka by Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa, Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski by Anna Kopeć-Gibas

Icon for the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Warsaw: Triptych of the Holy Family with scenes from the childhood of the Lord Jesus by Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa

Icon for Novicity oo. Dominicans - Angels carrying the Angelic Cross of St.Thomas of Aquinas by Małgorzata Klockowska

Icons for the Higher Metropolitan Spiritual Seminary of St. John The Baptizer in Warsaw

The Resurrection of Lazarus

Entrance to Jerusalem

The Dream of the Mother of God

The Sending of the Holy Spirit

The Ascension of the Lord

Joining the Abyss

The Last Supper

The Lord's Transformation

Team

Małgorzata Łukasiewicz-Traczyńska

President of the Foundation
Architect

malgorzata.traczynska
@dobrygrunt.org

Joanna Sawicka

Member of the Board
Geologist

joanna.sawicka
@dobrygrunt.org

Marcin Rafał Kucharski

Member of the Board
Geologist

rafal.kucharski
@dobrygrunt.org

Karolina Tymicka

Member of the Foundation Council
Student

karolina.tymicka
@dobrygrunt.org

Dominika Leszczyńska-Pogoda

Member of the Foundation Council
Legal counsel

dominika.leszczynska
@dobrygrunt.org

Olga Wysocka

Member of the Foundation Council
Doctor of medicine

olga.wysocka
@dobrygrunt.org

Associates

Mikołaj Ciszewski - Sculptor
Marek Górski - Journalist
Mateusz Środoń - Iconographer, head of the JP2 Project with Decalogue and Tora of Samuel Willenberg, curator of the outdoor workshop in Łuczanowice
Krzysztof Żurowski - Director, set designer, cinematographer
Jerzy Traczyński - Sociologist, technical and technological support
jerzy.traczynski
@dobrygrunt.org
Paweł Traczyński - Full stack web developer, web support

Icon artists

Hanna Dąbrowska-Certa
Małgorzata Klockowska
Anna Kopeć-Gibas
Mateusz Środoń

Photos

Tomek Kaczor
Jarek Barański