Events Calendar
Visual arts Joanna Malinowska at the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Visual arts World/New York, 28.12.2011 - 27.05.2012The Polish artist and Guggenheim fellow Joanna Malinowska's presents her culturally-driven works at New York's most important contemporary art show. Malinowska's work is marked by...
Visual arts Residency Unlimited: Gilewicz in New York
Visual arts 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?...
Literature Polish Cartoonists Head to Budapest
Literature, Visual arts Budapest, 11.05.2012 - 30.05.2012Poles are guests of honour at Hungary’s 8th annual Festival of Comics. Two artists and the director of a Polish festival are on the programme alongside independent cartoonists...
Visual arts Second Edition of the 7LIVES of fineLIFE Photographic Competition
Visual arts Poland, 03.10.2011 - 31.05.2012The second edition of the Polish nationwide photographic competition 7LIVES of fineLIFE organised by the fineLIFE.pl magazine launches on the 3rd of October...
Visual arts Focus Polska Goes to Romania
Visual arts, Theatre Sibiu, 25.05.2012 - 02.06.2012Theatre ensembles from three major Polish cities are in the spotlight of Romania’s largest annual festival of performing arts. This years’ edition of the event runs under the...
Visual arts Kozyra's Casting Calls on New York
Visual arts New York, 28.05.2012 - 02.06.2012The New York performance of Casting Call is the third part in a series, completing the trinity of the Spirit, the Brain, and the Body, while also providing a chance of a critical...
Theatre Słobodzianek's Our Class Across the Globe
Theatre 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...
Theatre Poland's Puppeteers in Asia
Theatre 26.05.2012 - 04.06.2012Based on the stories of Heinrich Hoffmann, Teatr Figur's "Crime and Punishment" employs the unique technique of tintaramese in a surreal vision of children’s telling adventures
Film Corso Polonia Takes Polish Art to Italy
Film, Literature, Music, Visual arts, Theatre Rome, 10.05.2012 - 07.06.2012This year’s tenth edition of the annual Corso Polonia Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Polish Institute in Rome with a wide variety of events in various genres. The...
Music The Chorus of Women Tours Germany
Music, Theatre Dresden, 12.05.2012 - 08.06.2012Marta Górnicka’s chorus of 25 women sings, shouts and whispers to create a new voice for the female experience. The group's two performances are on the programme of major cultural...
Visual arts Sołyga, Śmiechowski and Komorek to Design Smoleńsk Monument
Visual arts Orońsko and Smolensk, 30.03.2012 - 10.06.2012The site of the monument is to be symbolically indicated during a visit by Polish government officials to the city of Smolensk on the 10th of April, 2012. The monument pays homage...
Theatre Polish Dance at Klopsztanga
Theatre World, 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...
Visual arts Remembering Beuys and Kantor in Jerusalem
Visual arts, Theatre Jerusalem, 22.05.2012 - 27.10.2012The various works by Tadeusz Kantor are on display alongside the oeuvre of Joseph Beuys as the show attempts to trace the lines of the artists’ parallel lives and juxtapose...
Literature The Year of Korczak, Kraszewski and Father Skarga in 2012
Other, Literature 16.09.2011 - 31.12.2012This year honours three major personalities of Polish culture and society, as declared by the nation's Sejm in 2011. Janusz Korczak, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Father Piotr Skarga...
Film Klopsztanga 2012 - Polish Cultural Programme in North Rhine-Westphalia
Film, Literature, Music, Visual arts Germany, 15.04.2012 - 31.12.2012A unique new project dedicated to promoting Polish culture across Germany's North Rhine-Westphlia draws its inspiration from a typical object with a not-so-typical cultural...
culture.pl recommends
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



























