The new exhibition at the Zachęta Project Room in Warsaw by the artistic duo from Lublin – Małgorzata Pawlak and Mikołaj Kowalski, is a fruit of their creative approach towards urban nature. It inspires viewers to seek adventure within the close surroundings, appreciate the wealth of forms taken by the natural environment in the urban…
Bethelhem Workneh is a 26 Ethiopian IT graduate, who came to Poland over 2 years ago. The decision about relocating hasn’t brought her what she was hoping for, but as she says – the happy ending’s yet to come. Why Poland? I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Addis Ababa University and I…
The new immersive project premiering on February 9 in the Warsaw’s Art Box Experience at Fabryka Norblina explores the life of one of the most influential female artists in the history of art, the talented rebel, strong, tenacious and able to overcome any adversity – Frida Kahlo. This immersive biography will allow visitors to explore…
The temporary exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow – “Rationed Modernity. Modernism in the Polish People’s Republic”, features the modernization processes in Poland after World War II. The determinants of the modernism in the times of Polish People’s Republic considered by the curatorial team do not confine to the ideological restrictions on culture imposed…
Hirayama (played by Kōji Yakusho, awarded for his role at the Cannes Film Festival) lives in contemporary Tokyo. He is a man of few words – introverted, yet filled with love for the world and others, living a life made of rituals, in which he engages with complete devotion. Over time, even his mundane job…
The much-anticipated premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” finally took place in the Polish National Opera in Warsaw on January 21. The performance is a co-production between the Polish National Opera and Salzburg Festival, during which it had its premiere in 2019. Due to the pandemic, “Medea” couldn’t be presented to the Polish audience in 2020…
Christopher Mazur is a Canadian teacher of Polish ancestry working in the Edison Primary School in Warsaw. He has been living in Poland for 10 years now and isn’t planning on going back to Canada in the foreseeable future. You have a Polish surname… That’s because both my parents are Polish. I am Polish-Canadian, born…
The Polish National Opera prepared a special educational project for kids at the age of 10 and up, to introduce them to the specificity of movie scores – the ways in which music complements a motion picture and its story, as well as how it affects the audience’s emotions and perception. Big Screen Melodies program…
The new temporary exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw features works of a Moroccan-born French photographer – Bruno Barbey, showing the life of people and their communities witnessed by the artist during his travels through the five continents. Visitors can see photographs taken in countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Japan,…
What better way to start a year, than with a screening of a French “comedy of errors”? The creators of the iconic “Intouchables” – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, are coming back with the new story about two men in a financial predicament of their own making and one uncompromising woman perfectly in control of…
The cinema regulars and museum goers in Poland have admired the works of the director – Lech Majewski, on more than a few occasions. They surely remember the 2011 feature film “The Mill and The Cross”, telling a story of a one day in life of Pieter Bruegel, inspired by his painting “The Procession to…
Christmas carols and illuminations, local crafts and art works, mulled wine, gingerbread, chocolate and local delicacies – all with open-air concerts and performances, mill wheels, carousels, pyramids and ice-skating rinks. What’s not to love about the Christmas Markets tradition? Here’s what Poland has to offer this holiday season. WROCŁAW Until January 7 The Christmas Market…
