Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, August 31 - September 2, 2010 Author Wojcich Jagielski is set to tour three German cities to promote his new book "Nocni wędrowcy", translated by Lisy Palmes and published by Transit Buchverlag, Berlin this past March. The book tells the story of Joseph Kony's army of children kidnapped from their homes and turned into killing machines. It depicts the insanity and evil of a nation in the grips of an absolute ruler obsessed with power and violence...
Vienna, Kunsthalle, August 17 - September 1, 2010 Zuzanna Janin reprises her role in the Seventies television show "Madness of Majka Skowron". The premise is based on an inter-generational conflict between a father and his adolescent daughter. She runs away from home and spends the summer on an island, where she meets a young man...
Austria, Salzburg, August 2010 Three of Poland's most illustrious musicians Piotr Beczała, Aleksandra Kurzak and Krystian Zimmerman are set to perform alongside renowned classical musicians from all over the world at this year's edition of the Salzburg Festival in Austria. This is one of the oldest and largest summer festivals in Europe since it was launched in 1920...
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Festival: August 14 - August 30, 2010, Meetings: August 18 - 21, 2010 The Edinburgh International Book Festival hosts the most recognised writers, poets, thinkers, photographers and artists from all over the world to debate, discuss and search for inspiration. The Polish Cultural Institute has announced it will host meetings with Olga Tokarczuk (photo), Michał Witkowski, Matthew Kelly and Michał and Joanna Rusinek at this year's edition in August...
Kiel, Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, June 11 – August 29, 2010 The artists whose works are shown in this exhibition reflect the effects of the political upheaval in the 1990s on the polish society, they activate memories of their childhood and adolescence in a socialist state, question the meaning of architecture in everyday life, or deal in a humoristic way with the void between high standards and improvised reality...
Valldemossa, Mallorca, August 1 - August 29, 2010 The first Sunday of August saw the inauguration of the "Valldemossa Chopin Festival" on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The event is one of Spain's most important musical events dedicated to the Polish composer. This year, to commemorate Chopin's 200th birthday, the Barcelona Polish society Chopineum - Casa Polonia commissioned traditional Catalan "Gegante" figures of the Polish composer and his partner George Sand...
Germany, June 24 - August 29, 2010 The festival spans various musical themes: classical, klezmer and jazz. Another major element of the event is a series of recital meetings that combine speech and melody, where actors chant selected texts. Over a dozen works from Polish composers will be among the 136 concerts performed by acclaimed musicians...
Chicago, Polish Museum of America, July 30 - August 29, 2010 For its first showing in the United States, this spectacular exhibition of "Hidden Treasures" of Poland's artistic heritage arrives in Chicago. The show features 120 works on paper from 1919 to 1995 by 65 renowned Polish artists. These extremely valuable prints come from the permanent collection of the Polish Museum of America, such as unique woodcuts from the Polish Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939–1940 and a striking lithograph by Stanisław Szukalski...
Stockholm, August 27, 2010 The Baltic Sea Festival - Östersjöfestivalen - is Scandinavia's biggest classical music festival. This year's edition puts Chopin in the spotlight on August 27, starting off with a recital by Stanisław Drzewiecki, one of the most interesting pianists of the young generation, at Berwaldhallen. Later that night, Chopin goes clubbing at Berns nightclub at "Grand Chopin Brillant"...
Haugesund, Norway, awards announced: August 20, 2010, festival: August 18 - 26, 2010 Polish actress Agnieszka Grochowska won the Best Actress category for her role in Sara Johnsen's film "Upperdog" at the 2010 International Film Festival in Haugesund.
Neumünster, Germany, Tuch+Technik Museum, June 27 - August 22, 2010 "UNPOLISHED 3" is a comprehensive presentation of contemporary Polish design. From folk-inspired pieces to innovative space-age gadgets, Poland's young artists are shuttling to the forefront of global design and the third edition of this series is determined to prove it...
La Roque d'Anthéron, July 23 - August 22, 2010 Over 50 pianists will perform during the Festival, among them artists from Poland, such as Julia Kociuban and Marcin Koziak, along with the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk and George Tchitchinadze. The music of Frédéric Chopin is in the spotlight this year...
Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, August 20 - August 22, 2010 This special multi-media event is dedicated to Boguslaw Schaeffer, Poland's most prolific composer and playwright, on his 80th birthday. Four performances of "Era Shaeffera" will be staged as part of this year's Fringe Festival, with Schaeffer himself on piano, along with a number of major Polish musicians, actors and dancers...
Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, August 1 - August 22, 2010 Jan Kidawa Błoński's "Little Rose" is being screened in cinemas across Australia this month in the "Reading" cinema chain. The picture is the first in a permanent repertoire of Polish films every Sunday in five Australian cities...
France, Aurillac, August 18 - August 21, 2010 Polish theater troupes Teatr À Part and Suka Off are set to perform during the 2010 Aurillac Street Theatre Festival. À Part's "El Nińo" is a story about tough love set in a post-industrial world plunged into the shadow of 20th century disasters, a contemporary world of plagues and cataclysms, suffering from AIDS, SARS and the tragedy of September 11th...
Czech Republic, Marianske Lazne, August 9 - August 21, 2010 Czech health resort Marianske Lazne will be filled with the music of Fryderyk Chopin for almost three weeks straight with the 8th International Chopin Piano Competition on August 9 followed by the launch of the 51st Chopin Festival launch 3 days later...
Great Britain, August 2010 Michał Witkowski's "Lovetown" (Polish title "Lubiewo"), published early this year in Great Britain, has received critical praise in recent issues of "The Independent" and "The Guardian". Reviews in the British newspapers come after the book, translated by William Martin and published by Portobello Books, received much publicity in Poland, in part thanks to the current film adaptation in the works, directed by Luciano B. and featuring a special appearance by the writer himself...
Serbia, Guča, August 19, 2010 Polish Highlander orchestra uOrkiestra performs today at the 50th annual Trumpet Festival in southern Serbia. The group was formed in the southern town of Milówki in 1998 by brothers Paweł and Łukasz Golec. The band has popularised traditional Highlander music across Poland and the world, giving it a lively twist...
Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, April 10 - August 15, 2010 "To the Margin and Back" is the first international museum to host a solo show from Polish artist Andrzej Wróblewski. The selection of sixty-seven works including paintings, gouaches, monotypes and woodcuts, offers an in-depth look into the output and biography of one of the most exceptional and perhaps underrated figures of 20th century art...
Liverpool, A Foundation, July 2 - August 14, 2010 A Foundation presents Artur Żmijewski's latest work produced in the UK. During his residency in the culturally and politically resonant city of Liverpool, the artist set up a "pop-up art school" modeled on the famous Bauhaus founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany. Żmijewski's school attempts to explore this 'something' called art and to reconfigure the relationship of art society at large...
Locarno, August 4 -14, 2010 Three Polish productions are on the programme at this year's edition of the International Film Festival in Locarno. Polish Belgan production "Beyond the Steppes" will be screened as part of the main International competition, while "Through Glass" will compete in the Shorts section and "The Gift to Stalin" has been placed in the "Open Doors" section...
Nominees announced July 15, Locarno, Switzerland The Polish-Belgian production "Beyond the Steppes", directed by Vanja d'Alcantara, is among the nominees for the upcoming edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The director's first feature film stars Polish actors Agnieszka Grochowska and Borys Szyc. The festival takes place in the Swiss city of Locarno between August 4 - 14, 2010...
Austria, Nenzing, Alpinale Kurzfilmfestival: August 10 - August 14, 2010 "Echo", the latest film from director Magnus von Horn and produced by the The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, was awarded the main prize at the Alpinale Kurzfilmfestival in Austria. The picture is among the most frequently screened feature shorts produced in Poland at international festivals over the past few years...
Lima, Peru, August 9 - 12, 2010 On August 9 -12, Lima's Ricardo Palma Cultural Centre will host a Festival of Polish Cinema organized on the 30th anniversary of National Trade Union Solidarność and the 100th anniversary of Polish cinema. The event is yet another part of the ongoing project dedicated to promoting Polish film in South America...
Tokalynga, Tokalynga Teaterakademi, August 6-8, 2010 The small town of Tokalynga - between Göteborg and Malmö - is home to the Tokalynga Flying Theatre Festival 2010, a review of small-scale theatrical forms. The local Academy of Fine Arts and the nearby Albatross Theatre in Ätran are the venues for a high-flying festival of performances that may be small, but are worthy of attention...
London, Royal College of Art, July 16 - August 7, 2010 Over 150 major works from Roman Cieślewicz's extensive oeuvre will be on display in London at the Royal College of Art this summer. The retrospective explores the life and work of one of the key figures in the history of graphic design. This landmark exhibition will be the first major retrospective of Cieślewicz's work in Britain...
Belfast, Old Andersonstown Barracks, performances: August 2 - 5, 2010 The capital of Northern Ireland celebrates its multicultural character this month with the Fabrika – Eastern Europe Festival. Teatr Wiczy's production of "Emigranci / Emigrants" will crown the festival's highlights, along with folk music concerts by groups from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ireland. Director Romuald Wiczy-Pokojski sets Slawomir Mrożek’s play in a camper, which symbolises the Polish fight to retain their national identity - a subject as relevant today as it was when the play first premiered over three decades ago...
Reykjavík, July 9 - 31, 2010 This July, 14 European galleries from Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Istanbul, London, Vilnius and Reykjavik will create a temporary international art district in the centre of Reykjavik. Villa Reykjavík is a result of a general feeling of disappointment with the formula of art fairs. The event will feature new works by artists like Paweł Althamer, Monika Sosnowska, Anna Molska...
New York, Hauser & Wirth, June 30 - July 30, 2010 The latest exhibition of Jakub Julian Ziółkowski's psychedlic paintings, inhabited by jaunty skeletons and autonomous eyeballs, is on at New York's Hauser & Wirth Gallery. Doctors in white coats wield formidable instruments while women with pendulous breasts sport animal heads and monks with equally pendulous earlobes ponder the universe and stare back at the viewer...
Melbourne, Australia, International Film Festival, Screenings: July 25 & 28, 2010 Dariusz Jabłoński's "War Games" will be screened as part of the documentary section at the Melbourne International Film Festival this month. The film, originally released in 2008, is the portrayal of the Polish Colonel Ryszard Kukliński (1930-2004), who provided the CIA with more than 40,000 strategic documents from the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War...
Odessa, announcement: July 27, 2010 Juliusz Machulski has received a "Best Director" award for his film "Kołysanka" / "The Lullaby" at the first International Film Festival in Odessa. The film's plot develops on the charming Mazovian countryside, where suddenly people start mysteriously disappearing and reappearing again. The film finds itself in the "vampire flick" category, but here the blood-sucking creatures are more of a comedic vehicle, rather than a gory one...
Leipzig, Schaubühne im Lindenfels, July 23, 2010 For over a decade, Łódź has been the official film capital of Poland, as well as an originator of film talent on a global scale. It was here that the likes of Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Andrzej Wajda all took their first forays into the daunting land of film. Łódź is also the centre of Polish animated film, with several new productions in the spotlight at the "Cześć!" festival on in Leipzig this month...
Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels Westflügel, shows: July 21-25, 2010 "The Seagull' flies from Podlasie to Leipzig to celebrate five days of Polish theatre at the "Cześć! Polnisches Theaterfest". The event kicks off July 21 with the fascinating "Toporland" production performed by Unia Teatr Niemożliwy. The event features other award-winning performances, such as Teatr Figur's "The Smell of Elephants after the Rain" and Kompania Doomsday's adaptation of "The Seagull"...
CUNY TV, July 17, 18 & 23, 2010 In tribute to Elżbieta Czyżewska, one of the brightest stars of Polish cinema, CUNY TV has planned a broadcast of one of her most memorable performances. Andrzej Wajda's "Everything for Sale" will be televised on July 17, 18 & 23 on channel 75. The film delves deep into the lives of the people of film - actors, directors, producers. Fact and fiction combine to create a picture that uncovers the grit behind the glamour...
Pécs, Hungary, show: July 22, 2010 Kraków's Teatr KTO travels to the south of Hungary to give their own spin on Don Quixote's myriad of signs and symbols where comedy confronts the grotesque. Under the direction of Jerzy Zoń, KTO will give an open-air performance of its imaginative performance of 'Quixotage" in celebration of the city's "2010 European Capital of Culture" festivities...
Leipzig, Westflügel, performances: July 21-22, 2010 Wojciech Olejnik's "Toporland" kicks off the "Cześć! Polish Theatre Festival" in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city. Unia Teatr Niemożliwy from Warsaw puts on a fantastic show that brings to life the macabre visions of the world created by the French artist Roland Topor's imagination and married to the music of Bach...
Bregenz, Opera in the Festspielhaus, premiere: July 21, 2010; next shows: July 26, 28 & 31, 2010 This year's Bregenzer Festpiele honours the Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg. Festival audiences will be treated by the world premiere of "Passenger", Weinberg's first opera, based on the moving novel by Zofia Posmysz of the same title...
Paris, Centre Pompidou, April 14 - July 19, 2010 The exhibition presents the works of over fifty artists mostly hailing from Central and Eastern Europe. Some of these are already well-known artists such as Sanja Iveković, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Július Koller, Alina Szapocznikow and Edward Krasiński...
Dresden, Ostrale - Centre for Contemporary Art , June 19 - July 18, 2010 The show centres around "Beasts", or rather "East Beasts", a theme that is particularly characteristic for Poland of the New Expression period. All sorts of beasts, wild animals and monsters that are given exaggerated forms and obscene behaviours...
Lviv, Lviv Palace of Arts, June 11 – July 18, 2010 The "Power of Art" project is made up of two integrated parts: a show of contemporary artworks from the collection of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lublin, and a symposium on collecting contemporary works of art and the protection of cultural heritage in countries that are undergoing radical political and social change...
Jerusalem, July 8 - 17, 2010 The Jerusalem Film Festival is one of two major international film festivals in Israel. Among the 150 films presented at the 26th edition there are two Polish features: Jacek Borcuch's "All that I Love" and Wojciech Smarzowski's "The Dark House". The Polish presence at the JFF will be extended throughout the festival, with screenings of all 10 parts of Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Decalogue"...
London, National Theatre - Square 2, performances: July 13-17, 2010 As the Polish Season in London nears its close, one of Poland's leading theatre companies returns to London's National Theatre with its most celebrated production - "Carmen Funebre". The performance is an electrifying and startling theatrical experience that makes use of fire, stilts and dramatic visual images to depict the terrible nature and impact of war...
Reykjavik, Island, July 9 - July 16, 2010 Villa Reykjavik - a major pan-European endeavour to create a virtual art city in the Icelandic capital - comes to a close with a real splash by William Hunt. From Foksal Gallery Foundation's plastic-wrapped floors and "empty" projections by Raster's Zbigniew Rogalski and Michał Budny to glaciers, geysers, volcanoes and clover ice cream, the event made a statement on contemporary art in the globalised world still in the throes of a crisis. And it was a whole lot of fun...
Ribadavia, OMIX International Theatre Festival, performance: 16 July 2010 The Gardzienice theatre troupe, led by Włodzimierz Staniewski restores ancient literature to the stage in its primary form and brings it to life anew. The fruit of the group's most recent work,"Iphigenia at A...", comes to the Spanish stage on July 16 as part of the OMIX Time Out project based in Ribadavia, the capital of the Ribeiro region...
Budapest, Galeria Platan, June 3 - July 16, 2010 The exhibition is devoted to Polish art videos that are characterized by their distinctive use of words. In the works collected here, the video communicates not only through its visuals; image is combined with words both as sound and as meaning. The esthetics of sound and the power of meaning - melos and logos - are capable of framing an image...
Mexico City, Guadalajara, Tijuana, July 1-15, 2010 The best contemporary Polish films will be part of a festival series promoting Polish cinema across Latin America. Andrzej Wajda's "Katyń", Waldemar Krzystek's "Mała Moskwa", Feliks Falk's "Komornik" ("The Collector") will be shown in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The event kicks off in Mexico, with screenings of 15 films in Mexico City, Tijuana and Guadalajara. This is to be the broadest review of Polish cinema in Mexican history...
Vigo, Spain, ESAD School of Dramatic Arts, master classes and workshops: July 12 - 15, 2010 Włodzimierz Staniewski and his fellow artists from the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices have been invited to teach master classes and acting workshops in the harbour town of Vigo in the north of Galicia, Spain...
Reykjavik, July 9 - July 11, 2010 According to the Icelandic press, the island has more sheep than people. There is no statistical data about the ratio of musicians and artists to a hundred residents, but Icelanders have proven themselves highly creative in the arts. This year, Iceland welcomed 14 European art galleries, including several dynamic Polish galleries, including Foksal Foundation Gallery, Galeria Plan b and the legendary Raster Gallery, to create a veritable art hub on the island...
Rome, RomaFictionFest, announced July 10, 2010 The Polish TV series "Naznaczony" took home two prizes at the 2010 RomaFictionFest international film festival. The award for Best Director for Television Drama, Comedy and Non-fiction went to director Jacek Filipiak and Łukasz Targosz won for Best Soundtrack in the same category...
45th International Film Festival, announcement: July 10, 2010 Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Filip Garbacz have been awarded prizes for best actor at the 45th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for their roles in Paweł Sala's feature film "Mother Teresa of Cats"...
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, July 2 - 10, 2010 Borys Lankosz's "Reverse" is among ten European films presented as part of the Variety Critics' Choice series at the latest Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, based on a selection of films nominated by critics from "Variety" magazine. "Beats of Freedom", a cinematic ode to Polish Rock in Communist times, will be presented as part of the non-competitive series "2010. A Musical Odyssey"...
Washington, July 9, 2010 Dagmara Szymańska-Szymura's documentary "Pasja" / "Passion" has won a Golden Eagle Award in the prestigious CINE competition in Washington. The film, produced by TVP1, centres around Józef Żarnowiecki from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a man people called "The Hermit", who died in 2004...
Cologne, Germany, July 8, 2010 Film director Małgorzata Szumowska and award-winning actress Juliette Binoche will lead the press conference on Szumowska's latest film "Sponsoring" in Cologne on July 8. The film tells the story of Anna, played by Juliette Binoche, a well-off journalist writing an article on prostitution among University students...
Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, May 15 - July 4, 2010 The first exhibition of the Polish artist in Germany is now on display at Studio des Kunstvereins. Five black figures set against the white wall of the room can be traced back to another work of Aneta Grzeszykowska - namely the project the artist created in 2005 and which was eventually bought by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Apart from the figures, Corpus Alienum features Grzeszykowska's video from 2008 entitled "Headache"...
Genova, Italy, June 28 - July 4, 2010 A retrospective of Polish Short Films will be presented at the 13th edition of the Genova Film Festival. Sławomir Fabicki's "A Man's Affair" will be among them, along with Tomek Bagiński's "The Cathedral" and Agnieszka Smoczyńska's "Aria Diva"...
Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland, May 19 - July 4, 2010 Brzeżańska draws upon many sources, such as physics, energy, DNA research, astronomy, without directly picturing or responding to one of the many theories currently under debate. She is aware of the wide range of scientific theories that open up new worlds of knowledge or reject them, and picks up on these studies and discussions to explore a general knowledge of what we may not be able to understand with the means of art...
Bruxelles, Belgium, La Monnaie / De Munt, premiere: June 11, 2010 After "Medea", director Krzysztof Warlikowski returns to La Monnaie to explore another facet of evil in an opera based on one of Shakespeare's darkest stories. With "Macbeth", Giuseppe Verdi opened new perspectives for musical theatre. Dramatic truth prevails here over the classical requirements of bel canto...
Polish premiere: November 2010, trailer released: June, 2010 The first trailer for Jerzy Skolimowski's latest film "Essential Killing", starring Vincent Gallo, has been released. The film tells the story of Talib Mohammed, an Afghani captured by the American army and transported to a secret base somewhere in Eastern Europe. The prisoner manages to escape, becoming a fugitive who must fight for his life in the woods in winter...
Milan, Federico Bianchi Contemporary, May 3 - June 26, 2010 The main artwork in Zuzanna Janin's second solo-show at Federico Bianchi Gallery is the video "Majka from the Movie". The work, composed of five episodes, is a found-footage project with the scenes coming from the legendary Polish TV-series from the 70s, "Madness of Majka Skowron". In the video, the main character of the series, played by the artist when she was 14, lives a new life travelling in time and space through cult movies from 1968 to this day...
Moscow, 32nd International Moscow Film Festiwal, June 17-26, 2010 Two Polish films have qualified for this year's International Moscow Film Festiwal: Jan Kidawa-Błoński's "Różyczka" and Borys Lankosz's "Rewers"...
Amsterdam, Holland Festival, June 22-23, 2010 The Polish theatre troupe comes to Amsterdam at the special invitation of festival artistic director Pierre Audi to perform the classic play under the direction of Grzegorz Jarzyna. The play by Warsaw's TR presents a remarkable theatrical form, in which the opera is performed by dramatic actors...
Orkney Islands, Kirkwall, June 18 - June 23, 2010 Polska! Year comes to a close - in honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin, Poland will be the special guest of the British contemporary music festival at St Magnus in Orkney. The Polish contingent will feature more than a dozen concerts performed by renowned Polish musicians as well as music by Polish composers performed by British ensembles and soloists...
38th Festival Of Nations, announcement dated June 22, 2010 Jacek Głomb's feature film "Operation Danube" and Małgorzata Bieńkowska-Buhlmann's documentary film "Emergency Exit" win at the 38th Festival of Nations in Ebensee, Austria...
Belfast, Ulster Museum, May 6 - June 22, 2010 The exhibition consists of original arrangements, which are a combination of innovatively designed clothes sewn by Teresa Seda and original elements of folk costumes, supplemented with modern jewellery and accessories prepared by Polish designers. The trio Teresa Seda, Elżbieta Czyżewska and Akamine Hidetoshi will present 20 art photographs featuring works inspired by Polish folklore...
Belfast, Ulster Museum, May 6 - June 22, 2010 A series of 14 photographs by Piotr Sikora, created in collaboration with Piotr Bondarczyk, depicting Polish folk costumes in the context of contemporary multi-ethnicity. The project deals with the recent changes taking place in Polish society, which became almost entirely homogeneous after the Second World War and which is today experiencing a groundbreaking openness towards other cultures...
Edinburgh, June 21-22, 2010 Created at the Se-ma-for studio, "Maska" is an adaptation of a collection of writings by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem. The film takes place in a technologically advanced, albeit feudal, world. The merciless Duenna - a robot who impersonates a human female - embarks on a mission to the remote kingdom to find and destroy a dissident scientist...
Gdynia, announcement of the laureates: Gdynia, June 19, 2010, at 6:30PM Justyna Bargielska for poetry, Andrzej Stasiuk for prose, and Ryszard Koziołek for essay were announced the laureates of the 5th Gdynia Literary Award. The annual Finale Gala traditionally rounded up the "Literaturomanie" Festival which for the past three days has transformed Gdynia's Teatr Miejski into a site of a strictly literary events...
New York, The Chelsea Art Museum, May 6 - June 19, 2010 The exhibition explores totalitarian and post-totalitarian contemporary art from Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, and New York. The videos and installations are gathered around the idea that history can only be represented through some form of distortion, detour, or absurdity that enables a distancing from the represented reality, so that meaning can be redefined and rearticulated...
Bratislava, Galéria HIT, June 1 - June 18, 2010 Many of the artists presenting their works at the exhibition, derive inspiration from horror movies. Using the language of cinema they try to find such scenes which awake the feelings of "eeriness." Due to dangerous contact of reality and psychedelic experience, due to tempting feelings of disgust or sudden fear, "eeriness" is becoming part of our experience...
New York City, June 17, 2010 Polish actress and emigree Elżbieta Czyżewska died in New York City on June 17, 2010 at the age of 72. Czyżewska was a popular movie and television star in Poland in the 1960s whose magnetic spirit won her a dedicated audience in her homeland and the United States...
London, Tate Britain, March 8 - June 13, 2010 Henry Moore's monographic exhibition held at Tate Britain features a meaningful and completely overlooked episode which took place in the artist's career in 1957, and was related to an international competition for a monument in commemoration of the victims who died in the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Warsaw, Hoover Square and Rynek Mariensztacki, June 11-12, 2010 A real feast of culture and arts with concerts of classical, avant-garde, rock, jazz, and folk music, singing performances from actors, shows by street and toy theatres, and special contributions from artists whose work promotes Polish culture abroad - countless events at Warsaw's Hoover Square will mark the tenth Anniversary of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute...
"Empire" Magazine, announced June 11, 2010 British film magazine "Empire" announced its list of the 100 best foreign-language films in cinematic history. According to "Empire" editorial staff, the list includes films produced across the world, from Brazil to France, spanning neorealism through Dogma and Japanese horror. Several Polish titles also made the list...
Rome, May 14 - June 9, 2010 It's already the 8th edition of "Corso Polonia" Festival organized by Polish Cultural Institute in Rome. Corso is an annual event designed to promote Polish culture, music, and art. For the first time in its history, the Festival takes place in spring, in the seat of Polish Institute, a newly renovated Palazzo Blumenstihl located on the banks of Tiber...
Italy, Trento, Fondazione Galleria Civica, March 20 - June 6, 2010 On the occasion of his solo exhibition in Trento the artist presents two installations and two drawings which will change the spaces of Fondazione Galleria Civica into a fascinating "time museum". This Kuśmirowski's exhibition, which is composed of three different projects, has a methodological character allowing to perform an analysis on some important aspects of his art practice: the archive research and the following work of re-proposal and falsification...
Paris, Musée de la musique, March 8 - June 6, 2010 This exhibition invites us to explore Chopin's musical world through manuscripts and rare editions from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, enhanced by paintings,
drawings and instruments from the period. It leads us to the heart of "Chopin's workshop", exploring the process by which his music was created...
London, The Showroom, April 20 - June 5, 2010 "Estrangement" is a part of an ongoing project initiated by Polish curator Aneta Szyłak, and Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K. The project seeks to capture tensions between European cultures and the various past and present constructions of the 'Orient'. In London, "Estrangement" presents works and two new commissions by Hiwa K and Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska...
Berlin, Galerie Żak-Branicka, April 30 - June 5, 2010 The starting point for Poelzig vs. Poelzig is the horror film "Black Cat" (1934) directed by Edgar Ulmer, and the personality of one of Germany’s famous architects - Hans Poelzig. The inspiration for the project is the similarity in Hans Poelzig's name and that of the central character of the film - the Austrian Hjalmar Poelzig - played by the brilliant actor Boris Karloff. It turns out this similarity is no coincidence...
Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, May 25 - June 5, 2010 Polski Express is an established festival of the Polish theatre in Berlin returning now after four years of absence. For the 3rd edition of the review which takes place within the project "The Promised City", the organizers have invited works that deal with Poland's current reflection on history and shed a critical light on the present capitalist times - works that are in search of their own language. The list of plays to be staged at HAU includes "Samsara Disco", "Kaspar", "The Promised Land" from Wrocław, and "(A)Pollonia" from Warsaw's Nowy Teatr...
Hay-on-Wye, London, Glasgow, May 30, June 1 and June 3, 2010 Olga Tokarczuk will talk about her work during her forthcoming visit to the UK. She will be appearing at the Guardian's Hay Festival of Literature (May 30), at the London Review Bookshop (June 1), and at Waterstone's bookshop in Glasgow (June 3)...
United Kingdom, March 2009 - Spring 2010POLSKA! YEAR comprises over 200 projects introducing the most interesting achievements of Polish culture and works of the most outstanding Polish artists to the British public. Gala inauguration: April 30, 2009...
London, May 29 - May 31, 2010 Throughout this Bank Holiday weekend violinist Nigel Kennedy, as Artistic Director, brings Poland to Southbank Centre. The weekend extravaganza includes a feast of music, from jazz and klezmer to classical, performed by Kennedy himself and a number of Polish musicians...
Switzerland, Zürich, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, March 6 - May 30, 2010 This group exhibition brings together works that thematise the relation of tension between movement and space, and in so doing take up and reactivate a formalist vocabulary of signs. One focus of the exhibition is the influence of (post) modern dance and choreography in contemporary art. Among the artists are Paulina Ołowska and Anna Molska...
Drohobych, Ukraine, May 24 - May 30, 2010 The Ark of Bruno Schulz's Imagination is a biennial festival incorporating a wide range of events including literary conference, readings, theatrical shows, concerts, art exhibitions, performances, etc. The Festival was designed as a meeting point for discussion for people of science, teachers and professors in Polish and Slavic university departments, translators, Schulz experts, writers and poets, and artists...
Vienna, MuseumsQuartier, May 28 - May 30, 2010 "Factory 2" by Polish star director Krystian Lupa explores how Andy Warhol's Factory lived and worked - the one very much overlapping the other. Reflecting on Warhol's Utopian Factory ideas today, Lupa asks highly topical questions about artists, art and life...
Belfast, Red Barn Gallery, May 1 - May 29, 2010 The exhibition presents photographs by a Polish artist Stefania Gurdowa (1988-1968). Gurdowa remained completely unknown to the general public until a box of glass negatives signed with her name has been found bricked up on the attic of one of the tenement houses in Dębica - a small town in southern Poland. Most of these negatives contain vivid portraits of anonymous people who lived in the neighbourhood in the interwar period...
Berlin, Polnisches Institut, March 3 - May 28, 2010 The high-profile Sammlung Marx belongs to the most important contemporary art collections featuring works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly. About four years ago the owner of the collection, Dr Erich Marx, became interested in Polish contemporary art. As a result, Sammlung Marx includes presently works by Wilhelm Sasnal, Zbigniew Rogalski, Rafał Bujnowski and Roman Lipski which are now on display at Polnisches Institut Berlin...
Canada, Toronto, The Power Plant, March 26 - May 24, 2010 "Podwórka" captures six groups of neighbourhood youth as they play in seemingly deserted yards, offering an intimate portrait of daily life in Łódź, Poland. Shot with a fixed camera, this single-channel video projection highlights American artist Sharon Lockhart's concern for the interrelationship between the still and the moving image...
London, Courtyard of Chelsea College of Art and Design, May 17 - May 23, 2010 Parade is an open conference organized by Critical Practice. The event will take place in a bespoke, temporary structure designed by award-winning Polish architects Ola Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki. Parade aims to produce a landmark event in an amazing location with a host of international contributors, among them Polish artists: Joanna Rajkowska, Joanna Warsza, Roman Dziadkiewicz...
Essen, Schauspiel Essen, premiere: February 27, 2010 Polish director shows his original play "Areteia" as part of the project "Odyssey Europa" programmed by RUHR. 2010. European Capital of Culture. Among the six invited artists who will try to retell one of the oldest surviving texts in Western culture, Grzegorz Jarzyna is the only one to stage his own text...
Madrid, Teatro de La Abadía, premiere: April 10, 2010 After having directed various texts by Thomas Bernhard and his original productions on figures such as Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe, Lupa has decided to tackle a Beckett play for the first time. For this production, Polish director is collaborating with a Spanish Teatro de La Abadía headed by José Luis Gómez...
Shanghai, Zhijiang Dream Factory, May 22, 2010 Saturday will be marked by celebrations of Polish National Day at the EXPO 2010. Polish Adam Mickiewicz Institute together with Chinese event agence Shine is organizing a full-day event in a well known Zhijiang Dream Factory in Shanghai. The night will feature some of the best Polish club music with performances from 5 Polish Dj's. Earlier, live concerts from two Polish bands are programmed: electronic pop trio KAMP! and alternative duo Skinny Patrini...
Shanghai, Grand Theatre, May 22, 2010 Gala Polska is the biggest event of the Polish presence at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. The concert of Ewa Pobłocka and Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra under Krzysztof Herdzin will mark the Polish National Day on May 22...
Shanghai, May 22, 2010 The world premiere of "Let's dance Chopin" will mark another highlight of Polish National Day at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. Janusz Stokłosa is the director and author of music to the show directed by Maria Stokłosa. The music material of the show has been inspired by Fryderyk Chopin's Sonata in B minor - a piece considered to epitomize Chopin's late musical style...
Belfast, Waterfront Hall, April 26 - May 21, 2010 As both a pilot and photographer, Kacper Kowalski is in absolute control of the speed and the precise angle of the shot. He shows urban landscapes and rural sceneries never seen before. Abstract pictures - all taken in Poland on the Baltic coast - resemble paintings rather than photographs...
Berlin, Max Liebermann Haus, April 28 - May 21, 2010 "The Villa of the Enchanted" consists of several simultaneous projections. The space and the movement of the viewers are the factors which determine the place of the projection. For Konik, the villa becomes a gate to a different reality. It enchants the visitor in a similar way as the Library of Babel from Jorge Luis Borges's short story does - a model of a textual universe, storing all possible thoughts and ideas...
Beijing, May 19; Tianjin, May 21, 2010 The music of the great Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin is an endless source of inspiration for many artists. The concert The Different Faces of Chopin is an attempt to present a Chinese audience with the most varied examples of the inspiration and creative interpretation of Chopin's music. With performances by Camerata Silesia, Andrzej Jagodziński Jazz Trio, and Maria Pomianowska with The Polish Ensemble...
Greece, Athens, Beton7 Center for the Arts, April 29 - May 20, 2010 "Film Matters" examines the dialectics of the two titled matters - including negotiation between the double meaning of the word - material and content. With the participation of non-filmic and filmic artists it attempts an overview of the critical and conceptual gestures of disappointment with material, presenting works in which form is reduced or minimized to its matter, and approached from unusual points of departure...
Shanghai, Zhongshan Park, launch of the project: May 20, 2010 Paweł Grobelny, a Polish designer based in Poznań, is the author of the design of white Corian benches programmed to play the music of Frédéric Chopin. The benches have been placed in Zhongshan Park, one of the most frequented parks in Shanghai - in a close vicinity of the world's highest monument of the composer...
Belfast, PS2 Gallery, May 6-20, 2010 In recent years, Polish design has quite visibly searched its roots for inspiration. "Polska! Folk" showcases objects produced in limited editions, as well as projects that have been hand-crafted in one copy only, some of the exhibited objects are prototypes, others are still waiting to be invented...
Prague, May 13 - May 16, 2010, Guest of Honour: Poland Poland is the guest of honour of this year's Svet Knihy. The exposition will present the best and latest offerings from the Polish literary scene. Poland's programme will include opportunities to meet writers, signings, discussions, exhibitions, shows and workshops for children, plus a range of interesting events held away from the exhibition grounds. Polish authors coming to Prague will include Wisława Szymborska, Dorota Masłowska, Olga Tokarczuk, and many more...
Nottingham, May 13-16, 2010 Presentations by artists and speakers from diverse fields as geography, urban theory and computer science will explore what constitutes being nomadic these days and how developments in networked and open source infrastructure are transforming our expectations of 'Place'. Polish contribution at "Tracing Mobility" will include actions by Polish artists Kasia Krakowiak and Joanna Warsza...
London, British Library, March 1 - May 16, 2010 Fryderyk Chopin first visited Britain in 1837 and returned in 1848. The story of his tour will be told in the context of the Polish fervour which had taken over the artistic and political life of the country. Original manuscripts of several of his most famous compositions will be shown alongside portraits, letters and concert programmes...
Chicago, The Polish Museum of America, April 16 - May 16, 2010 A colorful and intriguing poster exhibition by the talented and accomplished students and professors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Katowice, Poland. Polish poster art has long enjoyed world-wide prestige for its exceptional originality. This show will be among those featured in the Chicago Artropolis program...
New York, Anton Kern Gallery, April 8 - May 15, 2010 For his fourth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal has selected a group of paintings organized around topics of personal contemporary life. This selection includes not only pictures of his friends and family but also views of the sea and sky...
Tel Aviv, Dvir Gallery, April 1 - May 15, 2010 Comprising installation, sculpture and video, Bałka intends to provide an experience for visitors which is both personal and collective and is not susceptible to easy analysis. His materials are simple, everyday objects, but powerfully indicative of hidden memories and the history of Nazi occupation in Poland...
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum Of Art, May 10 - May 15, 2010 The program will include works by Handel, Villa Lobos, Moshe Zorman and Django Reinhardt. A special celebration of Frédéric Chopin's 200th anniversary is also programmed. Highlights of the festival include "Chopin and Opera Insane" with Lilya Zilberstein from Germany, as well as the enactment of Handel's "Acis & Galatea". This year, the annual Guitar Week is also part of the Festival's program...
New York, Symphony Space, May 15, 2010 - Marathon of Music from Eastern Europe The twelve-hour marathon will feature a broad cross-section of music from behind the Iron Curtain and will include world and U.S. premieres along with rare works from a period that while marked by political repression, nonetheless witnessed extraordinary musical achievement. Highlights include performances by Poland's renowned Silesian String Quartet playing pieces of Grażyna Bacewicz, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, among others...
Belfast, Queen's Film Theatre, May 12, 2010 To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, the first non-communist party controlled trade union in a Warsaw pact country, legendary director Andrzej Wajda brought together 13 outstanding Polish directors to shoot a series of short films, which express their personal thoughts about the social movement which changed the face of Europe...
London, British Library - Conference Center, May 12, 2010, 6:30 pm For one night, capital cities across Europe are presenting simultaneous celebrations of writing and reading on European Literature Night, and the British Library will once again host an evening of readings and conversation from some superlative writers, both emerging and established. Polish literature represents Jacek Dehnel...
Paris, Centre Pompidou Grande Salle, May 6-9, 2010 To revisit the work of the man considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century; To seize the latter as one would tame a wild animal - with a firm grip, tenderness and savagery. This is the aim of the show according to its authors Sophie Perez and Xavier Boussiron. The show which is presented like an essay, a newspaper column, and a far-flung allusion to the work of Witold Gombrowicz...
Düsseldorf, Polish Institute Gallery, February 24 - May 8, 2010 Rogalski returns to his studies in the structure of paint and exploration of the characteristics of human eye. Works from the series "Stories" (2008) feature large-size, empty aquaria or terraria, though they could be just as well one big glass tank whose walls are being gradually coated with paint...
Berlin, DAADgalerie, March 26 - May 8, 2010 In her new video works, Brzeżańska deals with the spirtual in the form of contemporary esoterics. "Playlist" shows videos downloaded from YouTube, which are projected in three different series (playlists) on three projections in the main room of the gallery...
New York, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, January 8 - May 8, 2010 Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin's birth, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Cultural Institute present a series of films inspired by the life and art of the great Polish composer...
Great Britain, in bookstores on May 6, 2010 UK publisher Penguin is launching a series of ten Central European Classics. The series takes readers on a political, social and cultural journey from the optimism of pre 1914 Central Europe to the horrors of the Cold War. Two books by Polish authors were included in the Penguin series: Czesław Miłosz's diverse collection of essays "Proud to be a Mammal" and Sławomir Mrożek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories "The Elephant"...
Bloomington - 26 April, New York - April 28, 30, Charlottesville - May 3-4, Chicago - May 5, 2010 Andrzej Stasiuk will read fragments of his books in four cities in the US. In New York, on April 28, Stasiuk will join Atiq Rahimi, Salman Rushdie, Patti Smith, and others in celebrating the official opening of the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival. Two days later, on Friday, April 30, he will take part in the discussion Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, with Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, and Eshkol Nevo...
London, National Maritime Museum, September 28, 2009 - May 5, 2010 In 1914, the Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski invited his childhood friend, the artist and writer Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), to act as his draughtsman and photographer on an expedition to New Guinea. In May 2009 Millar travelled to Kiriwina off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where Malinowski conducted his most famous fieldwork...
New York, Anthology Film Archives, April 30 - May 4, 2010 The festival opened to the public on Friday, April 30, with the New York premiere of Ryszard Bugajski's "General Nil" (2009) and "Andrzej Wajda: Let’s Shoot!", a documentary on the making of Andrzej Wajda’s "Katyń" (2007). The centerpiece of the 2010 NNYPFF was the hommage to the legendary Polish filmmaker Janusz Morgernstern. Morgenstern was also presented with the Honorary Award "50 years in Cinema", while his newest film "Lesser Evil" won the Audience Award. The main award of the Festival went to Jacek Borcuch's "All that I Love"...
Los Angeles, April 20 - May 2, 2010 The Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles which continues to grow each year by screening more films and drawing larger crowds, is meant to celebrate the achievements of Polish filmmakers promoting Polish film and Polish culture in Hollywood. At the Gala Opening at the Egyptian Theater on April 20, "The Children of Irena Sendler" ["Dzieci Ireny Sendlerowej"] by John Kent Harrison is going to be presented. On April 23, a special screening of "Katyń" (2007) by Andrzej Wajda and "The Officer's Wife" (2010) by Piotr Uzarowicz has been planned...
UK, Manchester, April 27 - May 2, 2010 The 11th edition of the Kino Film Festival, now Kinofilm Manchester European Short Film Festival, focuses on New Polish Cinema. There are two programmes of short films from Poland and a Polish Documentaries Programme. Highlight of the Polish Focus is "Piggies / Świnki", the controversial new film about today's youth selling their souls for their future, from award-winning director Robert Gliński...
Berlin, KunstWerke, February 27 - May 2, 2010 The exhibition under the title "Early Years", organized for KunstWerke by the team of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, is based on the effort of exploring the founding myth of a new institution. Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art was called into being in April 2005, and from its very inception there has been a common belief that this new institution would be a tool in supporting and boosting processes of modernization...
Switzerland, Zürich, Galerie Nicola von Senger, March 19 - April, 2010 The drawings from the series "Stills" form the central part of the exhibition, presenting Western interiors and landscapes that gain stage-like character through the absence of physically recognizable protagonists. Nonetheless, the images are emotionally laden. The scenery suggests somebody just having left the frame of the picture...
Vienna, Haus der Musik, March 4 - April 30, 2010 Three cities played an important role in Fryderyk Chopin's life: Warsaw, Paris and Vienna. The exhibition at Haus der Musik is designed as a narrative of the events that took place during his time in Vienna. It draws in particular on the composer's extensive correspondence...
The Netherlands, Rotterdam, Witte de With - Center for Contemporary Art, February 19 - April 25, 2010 The exhibition presents a variety of practices emblematic of a hidden movement that was driven by the need to open a different space from the moral and aesthetic cultural standards prevailing in Poland under and after martial law (December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983)...
Stuttgart, Akademie Schloss Solitude, March 11 - April 25, 2010 The exhibition reflects on artistic residencies, institutions that have committed themselves to art as well as daily artistic practice, including both life and work, fallow periods and mobilized activity. The title "Arbeitstitel. Working Title" refers to the artistic processes’ exterior circumstances – for the exhibition, these circumstances are revealed with the terms of studio, private life and travel...
Berlin, Żak-Branicka Gallery, March 19 - April 24, 2010 Polska is one of the most interesting Polish artists of the younger generation (born 1985), whose work has been shown at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Kunstbygning in Aarhus and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. The source materials of Polska's videos are photographs taken from prewar newspapers and art magazines
from the 1960s, which she animates...
London, Earls Court, April 19 - April 21, 2010 From April 19 till April 21, 2010, the London Book Fair will be taking place, organized in the fairground at Earls Court. After the Frankfurt fair, this is the most important event of its kind in the world, and an important place to sell translation rights...
Berlin and Potsdam, April 15 - April 21 around 100 films from Poland. The Festival encompasses the whole range of new Polish cinema including the newest feature and documentary releases, school etudes, a review of films from Opus Film studio, and a film series dedicated to Polish trade union "Solidarność", celebrating now its 30th anniversary. Apart from screenings, lectures, discussions, and workshops with film-makers and cinematographers are also programmed...
New York, The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church and Nuyorican Poets Cafe, April 19-20, 2010 The evening at the Poetry Project will be the first public reading of Białoszewski in the US presenting a range of his work - from his poetry, and the diaristic "Reports from Reality" to the unconventional "Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising". On the following night, guests of Nuyorican Poets Cafe will have an opportunity to see a feature film about the writer and Jadwiga Stańczakowa, his blind secretary and a long-time friend...
UK, Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary, February 13 - April 18, 2010 The exhibition revisits how the future was experienced and imagined under communism during the Cold War. It focuses on the work of many of the leading artists of the post-Communist generation of European artists. They are joined by key figures from the 1960s and 1970s avant-gardes of that region - Filko, the Kabakovs and Koller - as well as artists from the West who have made work from the geo-historical perspectives of the former ideological adversary...
London, Whitechapel Gallery, April 5, 2009 - April 18, 2010 London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga has created a new site specific artwork focusing on a key moment in the history of the Whitechapel Gallery: the presentation of Picasso's "Guernica" in 1939...
London, Royal Festival Hall, April 17, 2010 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will hold a concert commemorating the victims of Saturday’s tragedy, in particular the President Lech Kaczyński who, with HM the Queen, took patronage over the POLSKA!YEAR project. The Saturday concert was originally planned to feature the world premiere of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s "Symphony No. 4", and was to be attended by the President Kaczyński and his Wife...
UK, Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery, February 5 - April 17, 2010 The exhibition features some of the finest items from the Polish national collection, and offers a unique chance to see some fascinating and beautiful artefacts which represent both natural history and northern European craftsmanship...
London, March 4 - April 13, 2010 Now in it's 8th year, the Kinoteka Polish Film Festiwal, returns to London with another stellar line up offering up the very best of Polish culture spanning film, music and the visual arts. Th programme features films by Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Wajda, brothers Quay, and Xawery Żuławski, a concert by Tomasz Stańko, video art by Anna Molska, and many more...
London, Tate Modern, April 13, 2010, 6:30 pm Molska's short videos draw on the post-Soviet imaginary and distil elements of early avant-garde movements such as Suprematism and Constructivism. Focusing on the performing body, she complicates the relationship between live action and utopian abstraction. This screening surveys her work, presenting videos such as "The Weavers", "Tanagram" and "Jesus Loves Me". Following the screening Molska will discuss her practice with Warsaw-based critic Karol Sienkiewicz...
Copenhagen, Denmark, WAS - Wonderland Art Space, March 12 - April 12, 2010 "Ultra Silvam" brings together artists whose work focuses on the role and symbolic dimension of nature as reflected in the space of forests, wilderness, and depopulated areas. The exhibition's scenario puts the artists' diverse praxis in the context of literature: fairy tales, myths, and novels...
London, Waterside Project Space, March 12 - April 11, 2010 The exhibition presents a young generation of artists from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK exploring 'all that remained' once the political system of their childhood had disintegrated...
Theatrical release in the U.S.: April 9, 2010 "After.Life" is a feature-film directorial debut of an up-and-coming Polish director, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Written by Wojtowicz, Paul Vosloo and Jakub Korolczuk, this edgy, masterful work of Polanskiesque suspense provocatively asks one of the fundamental questions: What happens to us after we die? Starring Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson...
UK, Bristol, Arnolfini, January 30 - April 5, 2010 He has been inspired by the concept of 'the end of geography' and for his solo exhibition, Simon is undertaking a research project revisiting key locations of the Trans-Atlantic Trade Triangle - namely West Coast Africa, the Caribbean, and Bristol - developing a series of artworks that will result from the experiences and exchanges on his travels...
London, Tate Modern, October 13, 2009 - April 5, 2010 Polish artist Mirosław Bałka is the next to win the Unilever commission to fill the gallery's huge Turbine Hall...
Sweden, Stockholm, Bonniers Konsthall, January 27 - April 4, 2010 In the course of ten weeks, five works receive their Swedish premieres in the film programme "Projections". Among them: "Sculpture Plein-air, Świecie" by Artur Żmijewski...
Paris, Théâtre de l'Odéon, premiere: February 4, 2010 In order to rediscover the masterpiece of Tenessee Williams, Krzysztof Warlikowski has returned to the Odeon Theater after his superb directing of "Krum". For the occasion, Warlikowski has commissioned a new translation by Wajdi Mouawad. Isabelle Huppert will play the role of Blanche DuBois, and Andrzej Chyra will impersonate Stanley Kowalski...
New York, November, 2009 - March, 2010 Polish Cultural Institute in New York will organize eleven Polish cultural events as part of the Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe Festival, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism...
USA, Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art, November 4, 2009 - March 28, 2010 This immersive chronicle is based on the artist's contact with medics, soldiers and refugees affected by the current conflict in Iraq, who described their experiences and shared with the artist video and audio of life during wartime...
London, Barbican Theatre, March 23-27, 2010 In his uncompromising autobiographical approach to Kane’s elusive and elliptical prose poem, Grzegorz Jarzyna stages the drama of a woman in the throes of a terrifying psychological ordeal. Throughout the play she confronts a series of figures who try to reason with her: a close friend, a male doctor, another patient, a female lover; until she ends up attacking her own psyche...
Düsseldorf, Kai 10 Raum für Kunst, January 23 - March 27, 2010 The exhibition takes its title from London's Circle Line, the underground line that circles the city center in two directions: eastbound and westbound. For "East Bound", KAI 10 invited young artists from Eastern Europe, who either live and work in the west, or commute between east and west - in other words, artists who no longer permanently reside in their countries of origin...
Los Angeles, Redcat Theater, premiere: March 18, 2010 The Los Angeles choreographer Rosanna Gamson braids the allegory of regeneration of a Eurasian horse tarpan with reflections on the history of her own Polish-Jewish ancestors, horse traders from Szczecin, and the fate of Polish Jewry. "Tov" takes its title from "Gamzu l’tovah" ("This too is for the good"), a favorite saying of one of Gamson’s forebears, Talmudic scholar Nachum ish Gamzu, who found God’s hand even in tragedy...
BBC Four, March 26, 2010, at 8 pm. BBC Four will broadcast a documentary about Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Arvo Pärt, two most renowned composers of religious music in the Eastern Europe. The film is part of the second series of the acclaimed 'Sacred Music' produced by BBC...
London, Westminster Synagogue, January 27 - March 24, 2010 The world of Kraków's Jews is far more than just an airbrushed snapshot of the Kazimierz Jewish quarter of Kraków. Traces of that world pop up in the most unexpected places. And that is what this exhibition is about...
Denmark, Aarhus, The Aarhus Art Building, February 6 - March 17, 2010 The exhibition presents a young post-cold-war-generation's struggle with the inheritance from various artistic and art historical periods and political regimes...
Beirut, Zico House & 98weeks Research Project Space, February 20 - March 26, 2010 The exhibition "Fitting in Space" is dedicated to the notion of space and contemporary artists' attempts and investigation into ways in which it can be conceptualized and methods of transferring different spaces into each other...
Venice, Accademia di Belle Arti - Magazzino del Sale 3, February 15 - March 16, 2010 The exhibition "Ommagio a Tadeusz Kantor. Una visione universale" encompasses works from 1947-1990 and is accompanied by films on the artist, including a 1974 recording of the show by Teatr Cricot 2 made by Andrzej Wajda...
Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, February 5 - March 14, 2010 Experimental films, essay films, art videos, docu-dramas, melodramas, krimis, and everything in between – from the warm leatherette of a passenger- or driver's seat. British artist Phil Collins turns the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin into a stationary indoor drive-in cinema...
Stockholm, Teater Galeasen, premiere: February 22, 2010 "I grew up in a generation which, objectively speaking, is free from historical trauma; however, the trauma is there, it's inheritted, it's in our blood, and this I find very interesting," said Masłowska about "Między nami dobrze jest", her latest drama which will now premiere at Teater Galeasen in Sweden...
Rome, February 25 - March 14, 2010 Andrzej Wajda's film "Tatarak" / "Sweet Rush" based on a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz received a popular acclaim from Italian critics at last year's Berlinale Festival 2009. Now, in February 2010, Polish Institute in Rome opens a grand Panorama of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz...
Berlin, Galerie Żak-Branicka, February 5 - March 13, 2010 After the birth of their son, Dobromierz, KwieKulik incorporated the child in their art activities for
two years (1972-74). The actions with Dobromierz, where the parents manipulate as if using a doll, have a strong political overtone...
Oxford, Modern Art Oxford, December 12, 2009 - March 7, 2010 "Topography" introduces the compelling and little known work of Bałka as a multi-dimensional installation in Modern Art Oxford’s galleries and offers fresh insight into the artist's practice...
London, Gallery lokal_30, February 11 - March 7, 2010 Since 2009 Kurak and Skorwider run Niewielka gallery in Poznań. Its name (which simply means "Little") is as modest as the place itself. The artists made it their point to break through this curtain of prestige and so decided to "invite" to their exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz. However,
the curators faced a crucial dilemma - would the prominent sculptor indeed choose to exhibit in such a small and broke gallery as theirs? About the only way to go was to kidnap one of Abakanowicz's 112 sculptures composing the group entitled "Unrecognised", standing in Poznań Citadel...
Hungary, Budapest, Ludwig Museum, January 22 - March 7, 2010 The exhibition "...on the eastern front. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009" examines the effects of the changes taking place in the area of the former "Soviet block" on individuals as well as different groups of society.It concentrates on the human dimensions of the transition period lasting since the end of the eighties, on micro-processes...
Oxford, Modern Art Oxford, December 12, 2009 - March 7, 2010 "Common Task" is an ambitious new work by Paweł Althamer that takes the form of a science-fiction film in real-time. Visitors will be invited to take part in the journey that is the "Common Task"...
Los Angeles, Award ceremony: Los Angeles, March 7, 2010 "Rabbit à la Berlin" by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski is nominated for the world's most prestigious film award - Academy Awards in the Short Documentary category...
Vienna, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, January 21 - March 6, 2010 "Birthday" is an exibition focused around childhood. In one of her videos, Grzeszykowska shows a video recording from a little child's first birthday party. It depicts typical in this context social rituals, like blowing out a candle, cutting hair etc...
New York, Location One, January 13 - March 6, 2010 "Yes, But..." explores works that dwell in the borderline between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented, temporal and permanent, literal and metaphorical, orderly and undisciplined. It is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a group of international artists working in dramatically different practices...
San Francisco, March 5, 2010 Paweł Mykietyn, the most original voice in Polish contemporary classical music and winner of the Polish Public Media Award OPUS, will make his West Coast debut at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, as one of the nine most exciting and innovative composers from around the world. Two works by Mykietyn will be presented during the festival: the U.S. premiere of his stunning "Epiphora" (1996) for piano and pre-recorded media, and "String Quartet No.2"...
London, March 1, 2010 Maurizio Pollini is undoubtedly one of the greatest pianists alive today. This season marks the 50th anniversary of his first prize at the renowned Chopin Competition in 1960, and since that time he has been strongly associated with the composer’s music...
Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, screenings: February 13,19,24, 2010 The Winter Olimpics have not yet started but it's already known that it is Adam Małysz who will make the longest jump in Vancouver. Małysz's longest jump, precisely a ten minute video fragment taken from it, will be projected against one of the buildings in Vancouver...
Rome, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, January 30 - February 24, 2010 Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is going to officially open the Chopin Year celebrations in Italy with a concert featuring Rafał Blechacz playing Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor No. 1. Pieces composed by Gustav Holst and Randall Meyers will complete the programme...
Stockholm, Södra Teaterns Kägelbana, February 23, 2010 Writing, reading, and travelling (after Ryszard Kapuściński) will be discussed by Polish reporters Wojciech Tochman and Wojciech Jagielski and famous Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten. The hosts of the evening are the eminent translator of Polish literature, Anders Bodegård, and his equally great pupil - translator and journalist Stefan Ingvarsson. "Silva rerum" is their original project commissioned by the Polish Institute...
London, Royal Festival Hall, February 22, 2010 Krystian Zimerman will perform two Chopin Sonatas marking the 200th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin's birth. A couple days later, on March 1, another great pianist Maurizio Pollini will commemorate a possible alternative date of the composer's birth...
Vilnius, February 18 - February 21, 2010 Jacek Dehnel will be the main guest of the Polish presentation at the 11th International Book Fair in Vilnius (Vilniaus Knygų Mugė). Meetings with the writer and the presentation of the Lithuanian translation of his debuut novel "Lala" are programmed...
Berlin, February 20, 2010 Roman Polański awarded with the Silver Bear - Best Director prize for his newest film "The Ghost Writer". The film premiered on February 12 at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and a week later on February 19, entered movie theatres in Poland, Switzerland, and in the US...
Berlin, Berlinale Palast, February 15, 2010 Polish artist received the award - a statuette of Maria from Fritz Lang's 1927 movie "Metropolis" - for her role in Borys Lankosz's movie "Reverse". The ceremony took place at the 60th International Berlinale Film Festival in Berlinale Palast...
New York, February 4 - February 14, 2010 Since 2003, Unsound, an adventurous music festival in Poland, has brought a bold, international and uniquely modern program of music to Kraków and launched outpost events further east in cities like Minsk, Belarus. Now, Unsound arrives in the west with its first ever North American edition...
Germany, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, November 13, 2009 - February 14, 2010 Ołowska establishes points of reference between her own works and those in the collection at the Pinakothek der Moderne by incorporating pictures from the permanent exhibition and from the depository in her installations. Unconventional combinations conjure up an atmosphere of its own not typically found in a museum...
UK, Bristol, Arnolfini, December 12, 2009 - February 14, 2010 "Craftivism" is an art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially-engaged art practice. It involves thirteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices...
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, November 13, 2009 - February 14, 2010 The exhibition "Gender Check" looks at both official and unofficial art from the Baltics to the Caucasus, from the 1960s to the decisive events of 1989 to the present, and demonstrate how it tackled gender...
New York, Walter Reade Theater, February 3 - February 11, 2010 A review of Polish movies from the the late 1970s to the fall of Communism - "Storm warnings: Resistance and Reflection in Polish Cinema, 1977-1989" - will present the masterpieces of that period...
Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, January 6 - February 9, 2010 For the exhibition "Are You Really From The Art World?", Polish painter has assembled a group of works on canvas, created in 2009, dealing with the social environment of the art world and the question of his own role within it. These works capture and confront the artist's point of view on contemporary Polish society to the French his own observations of scenes from Cracow's art world, on Polish press photographs and on fragments from Polish art history books...
London, Baltic Restaurant, December 10, 2009 - February 9, 2010 Abstract pictures - all taken in the northern Poland - resemble rather paintings than photographs. Graphic compositions of fields, roads and rivers; lakes and meadows like puzzle cuts - this are astonishing views accessible only from above...
London, January 15 - February 7, 2010 In his exhibition "Old Sores Must (Not) Be Re-Opened?" at local_30 gallery, the artist presents three found footage projects: "Yoga Lesson" (2007), "Negroisation. Exhumation of a Certain Metaphor" (2006) and "Song of Sublime" (2008)...
Vienna, Kusthalle Wien, October 8, 2009 - February 7, 2010 The exhibition investigates the metaphors connected with the collapse of the bipolar division of the world into East and West and the political upheaval, metaphors that are more than ever of relevance for a wide variety of different spheres of life. Among the artist are Ewa Partum and Marek Piwowski...
New York, February 6, 2010 Polish artist Artur Żmijewski and Hamza Walker, the Director of Education and Associate Curator at Chicago's Renaissance Society, were announced the recipients of the 2010 Ordway Prize. With $100,000 cash prize, the Ordway is one of the most generous awards given to a contemporary Artist...
London, Westminster Cathedral, February 4, 2010 With over 300 hundred artists involved in the performance, the powerful "Requiem - Missa pro defunctis" premiered at the Westminster Cathedral. "The Times" included the concert in the list of the most significant events of the year...
Biarritz, France, February, 2010 A film directed by Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy about Polish jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda has been awarded the FIPA D'ARGENT Prize at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programms in Biarittz, France. The documentary essay concentrates around the film music composed by Krzysztof Komeda and how it relates to the life of the composer...
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, October 28, 2009 - February 1, 2010 For "Projects 91", Żmijewski presents a selection of recent works, including a new film project...
Nantes, France, January 27 - January 31, 2010 The festival's formula is untypical – the concerts are held from morning to midnight in different venues at the same time. Each event lasts 45-50 minutes and the audience "shops around" specially designed concert halls. The French audience will have a rare opportunity to enjoy all the works of Chopin in very unusual circumstances...
Utah, Sundance Film Festival, January 21 - January 31, 2010 Jacek Borcuch's new film "All That I Love" was admitted to the competition at Sundance Film Festival. It's the first Polish film ever to screen in the competition at this festival...
Start of the film shooting: January 3, 2010 Jerzy Skolimowski's new film will be shot in Israel, Norway and Poland. "The Essence of Killing" follows a story of a Talib convict escaping from his captors in Europe. Vincent Gallo will play the main part...
Edinburgh, Roxy Art House, August 24 - August 30, 2010 Two manic weeks of late night, vodka-fuelled cabarets celebrating the work of Anton Chekhov and Tadeusz Kantor are on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.In the final week of the Fringe, Zoo Roxy's vodka flow turns from Russian to Polish as Kabaret Kantor celebrates the 80th birthday of Edinburgh Fringe impresario and legend, Richard Demarco. Demarco unleashed the uncompromising theatre and art of Polish artistic legend Tadeusz Kantor onto Edinburgh and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s...
Budapest, Galeria Platán, December 10, 2009 - January 29, 2010 Bogacka's art is a highly determined attempt at assembling a personalized world on the basis of a distinct, well recognizable formal language. The exhibition at Platan is a sort of virtual walk in the artist's metaphoric landscapes full of personal allusions...
Màlaga, Center for Contemporary Art, November 27, 2009 - January 24, 2010 This exhibition reveals the spontaneity and the banality that govern the work of what could be considered the most renowned member of a new generation of European artists, to whom the day-to-day of the world that surrounds them becomes the central theme of their creations: art as a stage on which to re-edit their own life...
Palm Springs International Film Festival, California, January 5 - January 18, 2010 "Miracle Seller / Handlarz Cudów" directed by Jarosław Szoda and Bolesław Pawica was invited to the 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival - one of the most important American flim festivals. The film is a story of a recovering alcoholic conman (Borys Szyc) who gives a lift to two fierce Dagestani children who've fled a refugee camp, the ensuing road trip changes all their lives...
Los Angeles, Award Giving Ceremony, JAnuary 17, 2010 Korzeniowski was nominated for the original soundtrack from Tom Ford's "A Single Man". The Golden Globe 2010 for best music was awarded to Michael Giacchino for the soundtrack from the animated movie "Up"...
Paris, Palais de Tokyo, October 15, 2009 - January 17, 2009 "Chasing Napoleon" recognizes how a rise and fall can spread to reality itself. Marc-Olivier Wahler brings together eighteen artists whose works read as instruction manuals on how to withdraw into seclusion and take refuge in the limits of the visible...
New York, Metropolitan Opera, January 16, 2010 Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, one of the most prestigious music stages in the world. The artist will perform the part of Escamillo in Georges Bizet's "Carmen"...
Geneva, Comédie de Genève-Centre Dramatique, January 12 - January 15, 2010 "(A)pollonia" by one of the most distinguished Polish theatre directors, Krzysztof Warlikowski, deals with the question of sacrificing one's life for the sake of a just cause. In "(A)pollonia", Warlikowski combined ancient Greek myths with the Holocaust and the war-time reality under the German occupation...
Düsseldorf, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, September 5, 2009 - January 10, 2010 With approximately 80 paintings, this is the largest survey of works by this young Polish artist to date outside of his homeland. The show brings together paintings executed over the past decade, and testifies to Sasnal's development since his public debut in the late 1990s...
London, Barbican Artgallery, The Curve, September 30, 2009 - January 10, 2010 For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Robert Kuśmirowski transforms The Curve into a Second World War bunker. This highly atmospheric installation - featuring a warren of mysterious rooms and a draisine running along a track that disappears into a dark tunnel - transports viewers to another reality...
Manchester, Cornerhouse, November 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010 This exhibition is the first major UK survey of Żmijewski's work and spans his practice from 2003 to the present day, providing an opportunity to experience the powerful and uncompromising work of an artist who examines complex moral issues...
Berlin, Gallery Żak-Branicka, November 20, 2009 - January 9, 2010 Paranoid protuberances of science are Szymon Kobylarz's source of inspiration. He is interested in quasi-scientific absurdities and the border on which rationality and obsession fester. In his newest work, realized for Gallery Żak-Branicka in Berlin, Kobylarz utilizes experiences from his school days...
Düsseldorf, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, premiere: January 9, 2010 Polish director is preparing the German premiere of Mark Ravenhill's "Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat" from 2008. In its press release, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus defines Jan Klata as "one of the most significant directors of contemporary European theatre"...
On Monday, September 20, the first Polish arena for the Euro 2012 Cup will open in Poznań. The official ceremony will be honoured with a concert featuring Sting performing with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio.
Until September 25 (except for Sundays and holidays), the John the Baptist Archcathedral in Warsaw will host daily organ recitals as part of the 7th edition of the "Grand Organ of the Archicathedral" Festival.
"Dotyk człowieka/Beruehrungen" is the title of the exhibition presenting works of six Polish contemporary artists displayed at the German Embassy in Warsaw (Jazdów street): on view until September 27.
On October 17, the National Museum in Poznań will host the first public presentation of Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville". The painting was stolen ten years ago. The painting returned to the museum in January 2010 after the folice found the thief.
Jazz pianist Chick Corea will give his only Polish solo concert on November 8 in Zabrze.
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