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Film Drawn From Memory in Cannes
Events Calendar Cannes, 24.05.2012 - 26.05.2012Screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes International Film Festival, the film shows the effect of filming as an medium of communication on a relationship between...
Film Toys goes to Budapest
Events Calendar Budapest, 24.05.2012Toys tells the history of a generation of children who develop an ability to create their own playthings from virtually nothing. Featuring a television host whose McGyveresque...
Visual arts Anna Molska & Ciprian Mureşan at the Tate Modern
Events Calendar World/London, 25.05.2012 - 14.10.2012The exhibition's centerpiece is a child drinking a mix of Pepsi and Coca-Cola, set alongside an image of two half-naked young men working on a giant puzzle and a re-enactment of...
Visual arts From Socialist Realism and Modernist Design to Kozyra - Summer of Polish Art in Holland
Events Calendar World/Arnhem, 26.05.2012 - 09.09.2012The focus on Poland in Arnhem comes from the country's increasingly significant role in redefining European culture. MMKA curators have taken note of the strong presence of the...
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Music Polish-Ukrainian Duo Revives Klezmer in Vienna
Events Calendar World/Vienna, 24.05.2012From happy trilling to melancholic sobbing, Klezmer Reloaded’s music expresses a whole palette of emotions and conveys pure joy of life. The duo's distinctive style comes from blending elements of...
Visual arts Paweł Althamer - Polyethylene & Common Task in Italy
Events Calendar World/Bolzano, 23.05.2012 - 26.05.2012The pieces compose a spectral, somnambulistic crowd of workers and visitors. As in Althamer's other works, these figures seem to dream about a different reality, yet - as a group - comprise a monument...
Visual arts Residency Unlimited: Gilewicz in New York
Events Calendar New York, 19.05.2012 - 29.05.2012Gilewicz asks: Could cleaning be seen as a tool for beautification and changing reality, in a way that art can sometimes do? How would this project be perceived in terms of art? Can you judge cleaning...
Visual arts Father - New Paintings by Wilhelm Sasnal
Events Calendar Poland, 18.05.2012 - 30.06.2012These are works made with a swift hand, driven by the tempo of our time, the frames reminiscent of cinematic close-ups or images captured by mobile phone - caught between a blur and an abstraction. In...
Visual arts The Iron Curtain - Official and Independent Art in Poland and the Soviet Union
Events Calendar Poland/Gdańsk / Gdynia, 12.04.2012 - 17.06.2012The National Museum in Gdańsk hosts a show of the most significant works of Polish and Soviet artists between 1945 - 1989, drawn from the collection of Piotr Nowicki. The exhibitions aims to...
Visual arts Yael Bartana's Polish Trilogy Stuns in London
Events Calendar World/London, 18.05.2012 - 01.07.2012Using the structure and sensibility of a World War 2 propaganda film the trilogy addresses contemporary anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Poland, the longing for the Jewish past among liberal Polish...
Visual arts Poland and Ukraine Unite on the Art Pitch with 3 Major Exhibitions in Kiev
Events Calendar World/Kiev, 18.05.2012 - 07.09.2012In time for their joint hosting of the Euro 2012 Championship the project celebrates centuries of shared history: Cultural Baggage, Double Game and Transfer...
Theatre Słobodzianek's Our Class Across the Globe
Events Calendar Tokyo, 18.05.2012 - 04.06.2012Rehearsals for the Japanese production of Our Class are underway in Tokyo’s Bungaku-za theatre. The Japanese premiere is directed by Hisao Takase. Further stagings are scheduled to take place in Rome,...
Visual arts Boniek - One Man Rematch 30 Years in the Making
Events Calendar World/Barcelona, 18.05.2012 - 02.06.2012Swiss artist Massimo Furlan's 2007 performance piece in tribute to player Zbigniew Boniek's famous hat trick that secured Poland's 1982 triumph over Belgium (3:0) in Barcelona as the flags of...
Visual arts Traces of Memory at the 10th Photomonth Festival in Kraków
Events Calendar Poland/Kraków, 17.05.2012 - 17.06.2012The photographs ofJerzy Lewczyński, a flagship exhibition of this month's photography fair in Kraków, manifests a talent for recording reality in its most minute manifestations. These forgotten,...
Visual arts New Face of National Museum Revealed in Warsaw
News and Events, Events Calendar Warszawa, 17.05.2012 - 23.09.2012In time for the 2012 edition of Museum Night, the National Museum of Warsaw reopens its doors after more than a year of refurbishment with a striking show on power through the ages. Those Elevated...
Visual arts Katarzyna Mirczak & Maurycy Gomulicki - Brutal Ink in Amsterdam
Events Calendar World/Amsterdam, 19.05.2012 - 01.07.2012Gomulicki and Mirczak take a combine a voyeuristic approach with an anthropological focus on a creative practice that is relatively unknown to the larger public. Both series take an incisive look into...
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Theatre Polish Dance at Klopsztanga
22.05.2012 - 20.07.2012The festival opens with a showing of the Minus 2 performance, choreographed and directed by Ohad Naharin and performed by the Polish Dance Theatre. Following Minus 2, Teatr Tańca Zawirowania stage...
Resource Library
Film Guide to the Poles Documentary Film Series
Rock, fashion, sex, mountaineering or toy-making, were among the many ways of expressing individual freedom under an oppressive regime. A look at the undaunted spirit of a nation under communism,...
Literature Elżbieta Janicka - Festung Warschau
This so-called guide-book takes the reader through the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, exploring its history while taking a critical stance towards the most pervasive ideological patterns and clashes in...
Film Anca Damian – Crulic The Path to Beyond
Directed by Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian Crulic - Drumul Spre Dincolo/ The Path to Beyond is, as Polish co-producer Arkadiusz Wojnarowski puts it "The story of an individual's solitude in the face...
Festivals in Poland
International Festival of Puppetry Art in Bielsko-Biała
25 - 30 May
Film Music Festival in Kraków
3 - 7 July
Photomonth in Kraków 2012
17 May - 17 June
Ballet Spring in Poznań
19-25 June
Malta Festival in Poznań
3 - 7 July
