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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...
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...
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...
Visual arts Kozyra's Casting Calls on New York
Events Calendar 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...
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Polish Culture in the World
Visual arts Young Polish Art Inside Out at Warsaw’s Cape City
Events Calendar Poland/Warszawa, 26.05.2012 - 30.09.2012The art-oriented segment of Miasto Cypel (Cape City) launches on the 26th of May with the Drawcore Poland performance by Tedziu Kong Michałowski and Piotr Welk and his Processing project that uses...
Theatre Warlikowski and Jarzyna Named Poland's Superbrands
News and Events, Events Calendar Poland/Warszawa, 25.05.2012The daring Polish directors were honoured for their role in actively promoting Polish cultural abroad at the gala ceremony at the sixth edition of the Superbrands Poland Awards, an annual event...
Visual arts Rafał Milach - 7 Rooms from Moscow to Berlin
Events Calendar World/Berlin, 25.05.2012 - 22.07.2012The images show spaces that are both dismal and pleasant, reaching beyond stereotypes of poverty and kitsch to show a nation torn between the traditions of the past and the consumerism of the present.
Visual arts Focus Polska Goes to Romania
Events Calendar 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 perplexing theme: The...
Visual arts Paweł Althamer - Polyethylene & Common Task in Italy
Events Calendar World/Bolzano, 23.05.2012 - 26.08.2012The 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...
Theatre Poland's Puppeteers in Asia
Events Calendar 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
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 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 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...
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...
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Music Poland at Jazz Rally in Düsseldorf
26.05.2012Germany's biggest open air jazz festival hosts jazz vocalist Aga Zaryan & European Jazz Quartet, along with the young musicians of the Bednarska Jazz Ensemble in a concert full of an engaging...
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
