The artists behind the Polish Pavilion at the Malta Biennale 2026 draw on the personal memories of one of their own to challenge the neoliberal narrative that has shaped Polish society since the ...

Spanning decades, borders, and artistic disciplines, the relationship between Andrzej Wajda and Józef Czapski unfolds as a quiet yet profound dialogue between cinema and painting. Sustained through ...

Whittled down from over 160 pianistsin the final stages, the official jury has chosen the one and only winner of the 17th Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Seong-Jin Cho from Korea has beaten ...

In their project, artist Weronika Zalewska and curator Ada Piekarska examine the ghosts of the past that manifest themselves ...

D! Much more than pom-poms and sideline cheers, cheerleading has expanded rapidly over the past few decades. Here, Anna Polatowska-Zegar and Sylwana Mazur discuss the sport’s development in Poland and ...

In this particular case, it’s the Silesian dialect, thanks to which the sayings cited below sparkle with one of a kind local ...

The distinction between writer and author is no longer about who publishes books, but about how culture assigns meaning and ...

A Polish version of ‘Apocalypse Now!’ or a communist take on ‘Before Sunrise’? Or perhaps a modern adaptation of ‘The Wedding’ half a century before Smarzowski made his? Let’s take a closer look at ...

Jesters were much more than just people who made a laughing-stock of themselves. Feigned stupidity became their life’s ...

Sharp, irreverent, and deeply rooted in place, Silesian anecdotes capture the rhythms of everyday life through humour that is at once simple and unexpectedly profound. Passed from mouth to mouth, ...

Gardens are more than carefully arranged landscapes – they are spaces that speak, remember and shape human experience. Moving between Enlightenment parks, Romantic ruins and modern literary ...

For decades, the Revolution of 1905 has been tucked away in history books as a mere ‘dress rehearsal’ for the Soviet rise in 1917. But for the Poles, Jews, Lithuanians and Ukrainians living under the ...