{"id":574729,"date":"2026-09-08T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=574729"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:05:47","slug":"warsaw-s-divers-face-extinction-as-their-creator-moves-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/warsaw-s-divers-face-extinction-as-their-creator-moves-to-germany","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw\u2019s Divers Face Extinction As Their Creator Moves To Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The creator of Warsaw\u2019s \u201cdivers\u201d has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100001918627192\/posts\/38367640106216465\/?rdid=YwEZnlcL4UlkbglB#\">announced<\/a> that he is leaving Poland. Belarusian artist <strong>Mihas Mishuk<\/strong> is moving to Germany and will no longer be able to paste and restore his divers on Warsaw\u2019s walls. His latest large-format works have ended up in the Vistula and some of the capital\u2019s bodies of water, and the artist hopes they will remain there until the spring flood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_574716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574716\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-574716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/795809384_38367645072882635_8877620231293158072_n-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-574716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mihas Mishuk\u2019s Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mihas Mishuk lived in Warsaw for three years. During that time, he pasted several hundred drawings of divers onto Warsaw\u2019s walls. He even gained fans who joined together to collect and post photographs of his new drawings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_574717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574717\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-574717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/797888837_38367643066216169_3812175244071991831_n-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-574717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mihas Mishuk\u2019s Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u201cThank you, and we will miss you,\u201d<\/em> the deputy head of Warsaw\u2019s \u017boliborz district wrote in a comment under the news. The artist once placed one of his divers there and received a complimentary post from the district authorities, who were happy to welcome the curiosity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_574719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574719\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-574719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792915449_38367643116216164_4910608583840330117_n-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-574719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mihas Mishuk\u2019s Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_574718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574718\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-574718\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/800484479_1612512946908599_2682390422490461309_n-1-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-574718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diver in Warsaw\u2019s \u017boliborz district. Photo: Facebook, Urz\u0105d Dzielnicy \u017boliborz m.st. Warszawy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, even in Polish-language Warsaw groups dedicated to city events, it is sometimes possible to come across new photographs of the divers. Residents are particularly fond of divers pulling a mermaid out of the water \u2014 a symbol of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>All that remains for us is to envy the university city in Germany. But Mihas Mishuk is not saying goodbye to Warsaw\u2019s residents: <em>\u201cWho knows, maybe I will return here someday,\u201d<\/em> he comments on his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the artist is selling his graphic works. He can be contacted on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100001918627192\/posts\/38367640106216465\/?rdid=YwEZnlcL4UlkbglB#\">page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Warsaw\u2019s \u201cdivers\u201d has announced that he is leaving Poland. Belarusian artist Mihas Mishuk is moving to Germany and will no longer be able to paste and restore his divers on Warsaw\u2019s walls. His latest large-format works have ended up in the Vistula and some of the capital\u2019s bodies of water, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":574728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa04074df385.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Warsaw\u2019s Divers Face Extinction As Their Creator Moves To Germany"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}