The Keret House

The Keret House is a unit located in a 152-cm gap between a post-war apartment block at Chłodna 22 and a pre-war tenement house at Żelazna 74 – one of the narrowest in the world. The art installation designed by Jakub Szczęsny has the characteristics of a residential building and was created as a studio for the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, as well as a place for cultural activities.

With its unusual shape and size, the Keret House is supposed to refer, on the one hand, to a brief art form of a story, characteristic of its inhabitant, and, on the other, to the history of his family. During the German occupation, the artist’s father had been hiding for many months in such a cramped room that he had to remain seated all the times.

The House is also an attempt to draw attention to the random, often ill-considered buildings in modern cities.