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Design Warsaw's Vanishing Floors
Resource LibraryPlayful, smart and made of clay, the shapely matchbox-shaped "gorseciki" tiles were an integral part of modernist architecture in prewar Warsaw.
Film Skolimowski's Japanese Pictures - Interview
Events Calendar Warsaw, 16.06.2013 - 20.06.2013The Polish film director and painter Jerzy Skolimowski has instigated the Japanese Film Review held in Warsaw in mid June. Running in tandem with the screenings of Japanese...
Film The Many Faces of Rosemary’s Baby
Resource LibraryOn the 45th anniversary of the premiere of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, Culture.pl offers this collection of the film’s posters from around the world. From the demonic hand...
Design 15 Iconic Polish Designs
Resource LibraryFrom whimsical forms to functional aesthetics, Polish designers always had a flair for the unexpected - in spite of repression from the socialist government. Culture.pl presents a...
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Polish Culture in the World
Photography The Roots of Design in Denmark
Events Calendar 22.06.2013 - 01.09.2013An exhibition of photography and design at the Munkeruphus Gallery recalls the visual roots of design
Photography Nicolas Grospierre - Oval Offices of the U.S.A.
Events Calendar 15.06.2013 - 14.07.2013The Polish-French photographer's latest series subtly underscores the performative aspects of power in architecture and design - and the process of replicating such structures of presidential...
Literature The World of Translators in Kraków
Events Calendar Kraków , 19.06.2013 - 23.06.2013More than 200 translators of Polish literature head to Kraków in late June. Participants meet up with writers, critics and scholars, with Poles on the programme in 2013 including Wiesław Myśliwski,...
Visual arts Dagarama Draws Alternative Visions of the World at Hayward
News and Events, Events Calendar London, 11.06.2013 - 26.08.2013Works of Jan Głuszak Dagarama, the visionary Polish artist, are featured at the group exhibition Alternative Guide to the Universe at Hayward Gallery
Theatre Surviving Objects of Polish African Exile in UK
Events Calendar 19.06.2013 - 22.06.2013Devised by Teresa Murjas, the project combines stunning macro-lens film footage, live performance and recorded sound, in a touching and positive insight into the experiences of a child refugee....
Visual arts Loboda and Macuga at the Palais de Tokyo
Events Calendar Paris, 21.06.2013 - 09.09.2013An exhibition opening in Paris transforms the museum into an ideal cemetery
Music Arte dei Suonatori Reigns in Copenhagen
Events Calendar Copenhagen, 19.06.2013 - 25.06.2013The Polish baroque-music ensemble will play at this year’s Midsommerbarok Festival. The musicians from Poznań will once again serve as festival orchestra, accompanying soloists and conductors from...
Music Smoleński at Łaźnia CCA
Events Calendar Gdańsk, 21.06.2013 - 18.08.2013A new installation from Konrad Smoleński uses sound to create the sensation of an earthquake
Visual arts Four Poles in Budapest
News and EventsThe work of these young Polish artists explores links between the social and organic in a quest to understand the world around us. From June to August, Kisterem Galery will host collections from Ewa...
Film A Meeting of Extraordinary Characters -- A Dream in the Making in London
Events Calendar London, 20.06.2013 - 23.06.2013Bartosz M. Kowalski’s A Dream in the Making will have its U.K. premiere at the Open City Docs Festival in London. The gritty film tells a story of friendship and determination at the margins of...
Visual arts Lublin, Open City
Events Calendar 21.06.2013 - 12.07.201317 artists from around the world will meet in Lublin to introduce art into urban spaces as well as discuss borders and multiculturalism. The festival is curated by Anda Rottenberg.
Film Smarzowski’s Róża at London’s Refugee Week
Events Calendar London, 17.06.2013 - 23.06.2013Wojtek Smarzowski’s Róża will be screened in London as part of Refugee Week at BFI Southbank. The harrowing film depicts the harsh realities that accompany population resettlement.
Literature Litro’s Polish Delights Take Over London
News and Events, Events Calendar London, 20.06.2013“Polish is now, after English, the second most widely-spoken language in England. But how many Polish books and authors have you read?”. In an editor’s letter for Litro magazine, A.M. Bakalar invites...
Visual arts Polish Artists Are Tourists in Other People’s Reality in London
Events Calendar London, 14.06.2013 - 29.09.2013A Tourist in Other People’s Reality brings together three artists, Cecilia Bonilla (Uruguay/Sweden), Sława Harasymowicz (Poland) and Joanna Rajkowska (Poland), who reveal invisible, missing and...
Theatre The Next Chapter Begins: ISPA in Wrocław
News and Events Wrocław, 17.06.2013 - 22.06.2013The International Society for the Performing Arts 27th annual June congress will take place in Wrocław under the title The Next Chapter. For 5 days, cultural managers and artists from all over the...
Visual arts Katarzyna Krakowiak's Chute Amplifies FACT
Events Calendar Liverpool, 13.06.2013 - 15.09.2013The Polish artist transforms part of the U.K.'s leading new-media art centre with a resonant project that brings the centre's hidden sounds to life.
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