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...
Literature Wojciech Jagielski
Prose writer, journalist, international correspondent for the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza for over two decades, also a correspondent for the BBC and Le Monde. Best known for his reportages from...
Theatre Krzysztof Garbaczewski
Theatre director and a set designer. Born on the 24th of February, 1983 in the north-eastern Polish city of Białystok. His innovative adaptations of various texts have acquired a moniker of theatrical...
Music Paula & Karol
Warsaw-based neo-folk band established in 2009 by Candadian-born Paula Bialska and Polish-born Karol Strzemieczny. The duo's international upbringing has given way to a universally approachable sound...
Film
Bartosz Konopka's debut feature Fear of Falling tells a touching story of a man and his mentally ill father. Piotr Niemyjski won for Best Cinematography at the Lecce European Film...
Film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, released in 1960. Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1961. In May 2012 the film was rereleased as a HD DVD...
2009 documentary film directed and filmed by Piotr Stasik. A look into the lives of young cadets at a military academy in Russia. Stasik is also responsible for the editing and...
Animated film directed by Marta Pajek in 2011. In March 2012 the film was awarded the top prize at Vienna's Tricky Women Festival, creating "a dream world that felt oddly familiar....
Culture.pl's Konrad J. Zarębski talks with Wojciech Smarzowski about his latest film Róża - a weighty film that takes a painful trip back through the tumultuous political history...
Feature film by Dorota Kędzierzawska, premiered autumn 2011. It tells the story of three homeless boys in Eastern Europe who go off in search of a better life.
In 2011 many new and established directors have brought a diverse array of riveting characters to the stage, while the annual film festival in Gdynia has changed for the better,...
Director of animated films (mainly puppet animations), set designer, artist, screenwriter. Born September 18, 1951 in Kalisz.
A 3D live-action/animation family feature film directed by Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey, and co-directed by Marek Skrobecki. Produced by Hugh Welchman...
A 2010 short animated film directed by Damian Nenow. A three-dimensional piece animated to appear as a live comic book, beautifully detailed with consistently sharp images...
2010 Animated film directed by Marek Skrobecki. Marek Skrobecki's puppet animation is a metaphorical and bitterly ironic story about a society suffering from "a headless...
A suggestive tale of a man who seeks refuge from reality by retracing memories of his first love. Voted best short foreign film at the Northern Wave international film festival in...
2011 feature film directed by Greg Zgliński. Wymyk is rooted in rivalry between two adult brothers. In April 2012 the film won Best Foreign Feature at the Independent Film Festival...
British director Roger Christian and screenwriter Sławomir Fabicki gear up to bring another of famed science fiction writer Stanisław Lem stories to the big screen. As Poland's...
Theatre
One of Poland's most inventive theatre directors. Born in 1962. He studied history, Romance...
Theatre and opera director, Head and Artistic Director of TR Warszawa. Born in Chorzów on the 4th...
Conservative spectators are not immune to social or political issues, yet they believe in a theatre...
Visual Arts
A cookbook with recipes for the political imagination is the artist's alternative for the traditional exhibition catalog at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Some authors treated the title...
Visual and conceptual artist, born on the 26th of May, 1966 in Warsaw. Artur Żmijewski appears to be an artist always in search of the next modality of artistic expression, ever...
Sculptor and performance artist working in video, installation and action art. Born on May 12, 1967 in Warsaw...
An art group founded in 2007 by graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts. Members: Wojciech Bąkowski (the unofficial leader), Piotr Bosacki, Tomasz Mróz, Konrad Smoleński, Magdalena...
Visual arts artist, photographer, musician. Born on the 8th of December 1977 in Kalisz. In his work he uses various media: videos, installations, performances, music.
Artist working in the fields of sculpture, objects, environments, performance and installation. Born on the 17th of August, 1931 in Poznań and passed away on the 22nd of April,...
Photographer, photojournalist, landscape photographer. During World War II a member of the Warsaw Uprising. Born on the 1st of April in Badurk, died the 24th of February in Warsaw....
Graphic artist, muralist, stencil artist with a focus on initiatives in the urban space. Author of m-city project – several hundred building murals in different parts of the world....
Author of short films, photographer, draughtsman, performance artist, painter. Well known for her pin-paintings, she creates space objects and sculptures. Her works explore...
19th century Painter. Born in 1857 in Złotopole in the Ukraine, resided in Paris for much of her career. Died 1893 in Warsaw. Her most well-known paintings, such as Lady with...
The controversial artist and his curatorial accomplice for the 2012 Biennale have put together a collection of interviews, conversations and texts that work around the major...
literature
In December 2010 American publishing house Archipelago Books put out a translation of Wiesław...
'The beast is slain', announced Krzysztof Bartnicki, the Polish translator of James Joyce's...
The diaries of Poland’s last king, Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski, were released for the first time...
Magdalena Tulli's second novel confirms the Polish writer's talent for evoking invented worlds that...
In 2012 Poland celebrates the life and works of Henryk Goldszmit, better known by his pseudonym...
Born in Warsaw in 1937 and educated as a journalist, she has worked as a reporter for the Polityka...
Poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in...
Julia Hartwig - a poet, essayist, translator and author of children's books - was born in Lublin in...
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in Poznań in 1938. Głowacki has been living between...
Writer, journalist, cultural studies scholar, graduate of the Department of Gender Studies of the...
An anthology of Tadeusz Różewicz's poems and a film inviting readers and viewers to re-examine the...
This year honours three major personalities of Polish culture and society, as declared by the...
Bolesław Prus (actually Aleksander Głowacki) – writer, journalist. He was born in 1847 (?) in...
2011 book written by Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzińska-Gross, published in English by Oxford...
Born on June 21, 1945 in Lviv. Poet, novelist, essayist, laureate of many prestigious literary...
A poet, playwright and novelist, one of the most versatile and pre-eminent writers living today....
Reporter, specialist on Russia. He was born on the 9th of March 1957 in Sochaczew. He became a...
Our Class is a story about a group of classmates - Poles and Jews - from 1925 up to our times. It is...
Music
The past year demonstrated the growing significance of Polish music on the international market...
One of Poland's most important and influential polish new-wave rock bands. Described by critics as...
The release of the new album by the acclaimed British pianist Jonathan Plowright celebrates the 70th...
Iconic pop/rock band, formed in 1965 and still performing today. One of the most popular Polish pop...
Composer and teacher. He was born on the 24th of December 1859 in Szczypiórno near Kalisz and died...
Within the framework of the I, CULTURE Orchestra, young and talented musicians from Eastern Europe...
Composer and clarinetist; born 20 May 1971 in Olawa.
From the Berliner Philharmonie and Madrid's Teatro Real to London's Royal Festival Hall and the...
Maria Szymanowska (before the year 1830), reproduction: Olszanka/EastNews Maria Szymanowska (née...
Theatre and film and cabaret actor. Composer, songwriter. Born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny.
Composer and pianist born on 17 July 1932 in Lviv, author of orchestral music, chamber...
Clarinetist, composer born on the 27th of July 1983 in Poznań. Zimpel has become one of a premier...
Composer and teacher. Born in Czechowice- Dziedzice on the 2nd of March 1927 and died in Berlin on...
Composer and violinist, born 9 September 1977 in Warsaw...
Pianist. Born on the 4th of April 1969 in Warsaw. Nominated for the Grammy Award in 2001 and winner...
Impulse, released in February 2012, is a set of freely improvised, harmonically and rhythmically...
Visual arts Andrzej Czeczot 1933-2012
Artist and illustrator whose works reflected a whimsical, satirical style for children's books, international publications and animated films. Born in Kraków on the 27th of October 1933 and died in Warsaw at the age of 79 on the 9th of May 2012.
Multimedia
Film Andrzej Żuławski - Filmography - Image Gallery
The art house movies of one of the most radical visionaries of world cinema provoke a certain kind...
Visual arts Katarzyna Kozyra - Casting Call - Video
An autobiographical video by Katarzyna Kozyra, Poland's most sensational contemporary artists which...
Film Judyta Fibiger - Political Dress - Video Interview
Interview with the director of Political Dress, a film that portrays fashion as a personal weapon...
Film Roman Polański - Carnage - Video Trailer
A laugh-out-loud caricature of the passive-aggressive tendencies of society and deceiving...
Literature Wojciech Jagielski - Burning Grass - Video
A book about Eugene Terre'Blanche and an insightful look at the apartheid as a conflict not only...
Film Roman Polański for Prada - Premiere in Cannes
Reuniting on set Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Kingsley and Roman Polanski, the short movie shot for...
Visual arts Those Elevated Ones. From the Pharaoh to Lady Gaga - Image Gallery
Those Elevated Ones. From the Pharaoh to Lady Gaga references various periods in history and a range...
Visual arts Pawel Althamer: Almech at Deutsche Guggenheim
Almech is the fruit of a collaboration between the museum and and the Almech company - a small...
Film Art of Freedom - Video Interview with Director Marek Kłosowicz
Shedding light on the brutal sport of climbing, and the essence of Himalaism, the documentary is a...
Film Art of Freedom - Video Trailer
A documentary about Polish climbers who made it to the highest peaks to join the ranks of the...
Visual arts Photomonth in Kraków 2012 - Trembling Body - Image Gallery
From the 19th of May to the 30th of June, The Starmach Gallery displays works from artists Nan...
Visual arts Photomonth in Kraków 2012 - ShowOFF - Image Gallery
The ShowOFF section presents young Polish artists Lena Dobrowolska, Jan Durina, Michał Lichtański,...
Visual arts Photomonth in Kraków 2012 - Jerzy Lewczyński - Image Gallery
Traces of Memory bears evidence to Jerzy Lewczyński's characteristic manner of perceiving photos as...
Visual arts Katarzyna Mirczak & Maurycy Gomulicki - Brutal Ink - Image Gallery
The exhibition Brutal Ink - Polish Penitentiary Raw Tattoo is part of this year's GRID International...
Visual arts Poland and Ukraine Unite on the Art Pitch in Kiev - Image Gallery
Three major exhibitions celebrating centuries of shared history between the two nations in time for...
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