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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 0:06:35 GMT 1
Piotr Gardecki Since a few years Gardecki's paintings are inspired by the city and its nature. The urban architecture of the trees are his main topics. Painting on location he was looking for contrasts between the crowded and polluted cities and ecological environments. He tried to find the last remnants of nature in his area. One day I realized that I had worked on this issue enough. Then he decided to break this repeating and started looking for a new subject. He painted his first industrial works inspired by the old and abandoned factories during my visit to Poland. He paint industrial landscapes in the same friendly way as he painted nature. He doesn't show the destructive aspects of the plant, the pollution or the desolate area, but the environment as we take for granted (taking) which is experienced as a landscape. I tried to accept this modern landscapes as they are, he wants this ugly building on a (great) way scenic view. Gardecki at the International Landscape plenary 2011 in the region Starnberg in Bavaria, GermanyRobert Rynarzewski, Wojciech Bielawski, Ewa Panczyk Halubiec, Mateusz Sieniewicz, Piotr Gardecki in Germany. biuronieformalne.blogspot.com/2011/06/outdoor-landscape-painting-workshop.htmlwww.polonia.nl/?p=5356
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 0:17:14 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 0:18:47 GMT 1
Piotr Gardecki Oil on canvas Green
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 0:27:26 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 0:33:36 GMT 1
Piotr Gardecki comes from WroclawFor quite some years Piotr Cardecki traveled to and worked in The Netherlands, Scotland and Poland. He had exhebitions in the Netherlands in Arnhem and Amsterdam and in Scotland and Germany (Bavaria) and ofcourse in Poland. This is an exiting time for him in Poland, because in 2016 Wroclaw will be the cultural capital of Europe and the European championship of 2012 will also give attention to Polish culture and fine arts (Polish contemporary art). WroclawWroclaw is quickly establishing itself as one of Poland's brightest spots for culture. Perhaps this isn't surprising when you consider that every other person you meet here is an artist (We're still not sure who's running the economy around here!). Amongst the many Gothic and Baroque churches, the beautiful parks and lovingly restored Gothic Market Square there are scores of museums, galleries, cinemas and theatres in Wroclaw to enrich your mind. In the Market Square itself you will almost always chance upon an impromptu concert or troops of street-performers entertaining the crowds with fire-juggling, break-dancing, or folk music - all of which is best enjoyed with a cold beer from the comfort of the square's bars and cafes. And did someone mention festivals? Well this city hosts more than it's fair share, including the international renowned Wratislavia Cantans, the Jazz on the Oder Festival and the cultural marathon that is Wroclaw Non-Stop. Whatever rocks your cultural boat you will find it here in Wroclaw, a city steeped in history with it's eyes very much on the present! www.culturecongress.eu/videoblog/video/videoblog_ekk_igor_box
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 16:28:16 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 16:34:09 GMT 1
Piotr Gardecki in 2009KapustaHaggis 28th March-4 April 2009Scottish-Polish exhibition of paintingsPiotr Gardecki (b.1978) Academy of Fine Art in Wroclaw, PolandPjotr about his work and study: " The paintings are investments of time and energy. I spent time improving my techniques and skills throughout my time in Edinburgh. Each work is a result of making mistakes and finding forms ,topics, limits and possibilities. My work is about colour, structure, direction, line and surface. Although within the paintings you can still find some elements of figurative narration. I am using different tools to create the painting, not just brushes but also; knifes, sticks and saws. These tools help me achieve a certain mark that creates a specific expression on the canvas. An important role in my work is to have drawings as a source for my paintings. I keep records of my decisions in how I change the painting in a drawing form . This process allows me to then transfer the drawings back in to the painting itself."
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 16:58:39 GMT 1
Article about Gardecki's exhibition in Arnhem in the summer of 2009. It is the regional newspaper, de Gelderlander (of the Province Gelderland)
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 22:05:33 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 22:12:55 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 22:16:12 GMT 1
NYPCBT @ Wroclaw - Poland Urban street art - murals (wall paintings)
PAINT CLUB in Wroclaw I Monday, 13 September 2010
Welcome to Wroclaw, welcome to one of East Europe's biggest urban art scene. What did we find here? A really, really great party and great pieces. PAINT CLUB in Poland, we love it.
So, Görlitz was loud. Berlin was louder. But Wroclaw: incredible loud. Over 115 decibels, what do you want more. As we drove into the city, we knew it will be a great night for THE PAINT CLUB. It's the third day of the New Yorker Battle Tour, and maybe it's the best so far. Three Teams competing against each other in a really nice location. We had some beer, and an even better beer mix with honey, name Ciechan. As the party crowd was going wild, we could only enjoy the feeling of a great party too. You really need to check out the finished works of the artist, all of them had forgotten their crew names after the evening. Polish people party hard. After this crazy night we woke up in a lovely hotel, next to some great murals of Blu and some other urban artist. So we started a guided urban art tour through Wroclaw, with one of last night's team. You really have to check this city. Now we are heading to Krakow, hopefully it will be as nice as it was in our first stop in Poland.
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 22:28:07 GMT 1
Wrocław museum
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Post by pjotr on Sept 29, 2011 22:31:42 GMT 1
IT BEGINS IN WROCŁAW – EXHIBITION OF ZBIGNIEW GOSTOMSKI 2.9.11–27.11.11 Exhibition After over forty years Zbigniew Gostomski returns to Wrocław with an exhibition under the historic title " It Begins in Wrocław". Zbigniew Gostomski creates his exhibition basing on syncretism of all these contexts, choosing the most simple form of articulation. He uses geometric figures, introducing different solutions only when he finds them necessary, for example in the Babel Tower drawing. Zbigniew GostomskiZbigniew GostomskiZbigniew Gostomski (b. 1932) – lives and works in Świder near Warsaw. Between 1953–1959 he studied painting at prof. Michał Bylina studio at Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; between 1960–1961 he specialized in artistic textile under professor Mieczysław Szymański. From 1960 he taught at his alma mater and in 1988 received a title of professor. One of the founders of Foksal Gallery, Gostomski participated in its inaugurating exhibition. He has been collaborating with the gallery until today, being a co-organizer of many unique artistic initiatives. In the 1960s Gostomski met and befriended Tadeusz Kantor. He participated in Kantor’s happenings and for over 20 years worked as an actor at the Cricot 2 Theatre.
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:17:11 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:26:12 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:27:46 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:29:44 GMT 1
Proposal of presenting an exhibition '' Wrocław Mail Art Project 2010 AFTERLIFE'' organized within the scope of efforts made by Wrocław to win the title of the ''European Capital of Culture 2016'' Last year the '' Zamek'' Culture Centre carried out an extensive project inspired by the mail art movement. These activities found their culmination in the exhibition '' Mail Us Art''. This exhibition could be participated by anyone who sent to the '' Zamek'' Culture Centre samples of their works. The reaction of the artists exceeded all our expectations. We received 177 mails from 36 countries. Apart from the mail art veterans (such as e.g. Keith Bates, Ryosuke Cohen, Clemente Padin), the project was joined by artists who had not known about this movement before. The exhibition included traditional author's postcards, cards, stamps and mail art zines, as well as paintings and photographs, workshop and computer graphics, collages, pieces of music (musical notation and mp3), and examples of concrete poetry and new typography. The whole is an amazing example of artistic cooperation. We would like to ask you to consider presenting the exhibition '' Mail Us Art'' by your institution. The exhibits do not require much space, since most of them is of a postcard size. Source: mailusart.blogspot.com/p/wrocaw-mail-art-project-2010-afterlife.html
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:40:36 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:43:03 GMT 1
Entropia GalleryA madcap museum to the modern arts, the Galeria Entropia is one that enjoys pushing the boundaries. Formed in 1988, with the support of the local government, Entropia organizes film shows and reviews, concerts, performances, and presentations of arts of new media - all guaranteed to stimulate and challenge. If you want to watch a ten minute film of a fly dying (slowly), and similar off the wall activities, this is a definately the place for you. Go on, expand your mind!
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:45:23 GMT 1
Fine Art Academy MuseumA classic example of the Wroclaw museum experience, you will enter tentatively through an unmarked door and find a bewildered looking middle-aged attendant (' You've come to see the Museum?'), who needless to say doesn't speak a word of English. After recovering from the shock of having a visitor the aforementioned attendant will then chirpily lead you to the exhibit room, babble something in Polish and flick on the lights. This charming ceremony precedes a delightful little display of artwork by students and professors of the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts. The museum is known as the Muzeum ASP in Polish. Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowiewww.asp.wroc.pl/
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:51:03 GMT 1
Impart Centre of ArtsEstablished in 1970, Impart has played a vital role in Wroclaw's cultural development ever since. A bastion of the arts in all their forms, the Impart Centre regularly hosts theatre, cabaret, music and other artistic performances in its two auditoriums with acts ranging from the popular to the obscure. Perhaps Impart's biggest contributions to Wroclaw's cultural landscape however are the festivals and big events which the organisation organises every year, such as Jazz on the Odra, the Festival of Chamber and Organ Music and the Award of Actor's Songs. impart.art.pl/
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:54:20 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 17:57:04 GMT 1
The National Museum is an impressive three-floored home to one of the largest collections of Polish art. However it only really becomes interesting when you leave the religious-themes of Silesian art behind and get up onto the third floor where you will be challenged by a diverse selection of contemporary art. Expect the weird and wonderful! The museum also comes complete with its own army of attendants, and the sound of their footsteps on the creaking floorboards is never far away as they ensure you don't take a photo on their patch - without having bought the special pass first! Entrance is free with your Raclawice Panorama ticket so spend the 15 zloty you have saved in the pretty cafe on the first floor. www.mnwr.art.pl/
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 18:03:18 GMT 1
Wro Art CenterThis spanking new art centre confirms Wrocław's status as one of the most forward thinking cities in Poland, and as a veritable bastion of creative culture. WRO Foundation Media Art Center began life back in 1989 when it became the only independent organization in fair Polska specialising in contemporary art, media and technology. However whereas the foundation's activities have previously revolved around organised the ' WRO - International Media Art Biennale', a festival and competition of modern art, the opening of the foundation's very own centre means they can expand their operations considerably. Exhibitions, presentations and special events will now be staged throughout the year. www.wrocenter.pl/en/
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Post by pgardecki on Oct 1, 2011 23:05:36 GMT 1
Hi There, I think you mean 2016. Piotr Gardecki comes from WroclawFor quite some years Piotr Cardecki traveled to and worked in The Netherlands, Scotland and Poland. He had exhebitions in the Netherlands in Arnhem and Amsterdam and in Scotland and Germany (Bavaria) and ofcourse in Poland. This is an exiting time for him in Poland, because in 2017 Wroclaw will be the cultural capital of Europe and the European championship of 2012 will also give attention to Polish culture and fine arts (Polish contemporary art). WroclawWroclaw is quickly establishing itself as one of Poland's brightest spots for culture. Perhaps this isn't surprising when you consider that every other person you meet here is an artist (We're still not sure who's running the economy around here!). Amongst the many Gothic and Baroque churches, the beautiful parks and lovingly restored Gothic Market Square there are scores of museums, galleries, cinemas and theatres in Wroclaw to enrich your mind. In the Market Square itself you will almost always chance upon an impromptu concert or troops of street-performers entertaining the crowds with fire-juggling, break-dancing, or folk music - all of which is best enjoyed with a cold beer from the comfort of the square's bars and cafes. And did someone mention festivals? Well this city hosts more than it's fair share, including the international renowned Wratislavia Cantans, the Jazz on the Oder Festival and the cultural marathon that is Wroclaw Non-Stop. Whatever rocks your cultural boat you will find it here in Wroclaw, a city steeped in history with it's eyes very much on the present! www.culturecongress.eu/videoblog/video/videoblog_ekk_igor_box
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Post by pgardecki on Oct 1, 2011 23:14:33 GMT 1
Definitely You should come to Wroclaw to get better picture what is happening in Wroclaw just now and writhe review for forum. Wroclaw is waiting you.
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Post by pjotr on Oct 1, 2011 23:31:00 GMT 1
You should definitely come to Wrocław to get a better picture of what is happening in Wrocław just now and write a review for this forum. Wrocław is waiting for you. Pjotr, I would love to go to Wrocław, and to Poland in general. A good motive is being half Polish, that it is the land of my mothers roots, my Polish ancesters and family. I loved seeing Krakow in April 2004 for the first time. I liked the city, it's people, the mix of old and new atmospheres, it's cultural and univesity climate, the mixture or layers of history which left it's mark there. I am curious how Wrocław will be? Wrocław was totally rebuilt like the Old town of Warsaw. How authentic is the new city (built after 1945). Is there a mix of Polish, Bohemian (Czech), German and Jewish (Yiddish) layers? It definately will be differant than the Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow I know. What is Wrocław in your eyes Pjotr? Just in a few words, your art academy period, a city of progress, of the deveopment of your work, of living, of going out, of going to cultural insititutions (art centres, art museums, art galleries and art initiatives). Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pgardecki on Oct 2, 2011 10:29:58 GMT 1
Hi, Sure I will post here, let me put everything together and shortly you will have impressions of Wroclaw now. Anyway flight ticket from Eindhoven to Wroclaw cost 25 Euro. Wizzair connections. Definitely You should come to Wroclaw to get better picture what is happening in Wroclaw just now and writhe review for forum. Wrocław is waiting you. Pjotr, I would love to go to Wrocław, and to Poland in general. A good motive is being half Polish, that it is the land of my mothers roots, my Polish ancesters and family. I loved seeing Krakow in April 2004 for the first time. I liked the city, it's people, the mix of old and new atmospheres, it's cultural and univesity climate, the mixture or layers of history which left it's mark there. I am curious how Wrocław will be? Is it totally rebuilt like the Old town of Warsaw? How authentic is the new city (built after 1945). Is there a mix of Polish, Bohemian (Czech), German and Jewish (Yiddish) layers? It definately will be differant than the Poznan and Warsaw I know. What is Wrocław in your eyes Pjotr? Just in a few words, your art academy period, a city of progress, of the deveopment of your work, of living, of going out, of going to cultural insititutions (art centres, art museums, art galleries and art initiatives). Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pjotr on Oct 2, 2011 10:52:55 GMT 1
It Begins in WrocławDorota Monkiewicz Dorota MonkiewiczWrocław was and surely is “the meeting place.” It was such a place for people that settled here after the war and is such a place for those, who tempted by the city’s aura remain here after graduating college or move here from different regions of Poland and the world.During the national conceptual symposium in Wrocław in 1970, Zbigniew Gostomski, an artist from Warsaw, presented his project, entitled “ It Begins in Wrocław.” His idea was to create an imaginary space of the globe, based on a system of modular sections, the measuring of which would start off in Wrocław and continue around the world. The phrase “ It Begins in Wrocław,” aside of all other notions that the project might carry, sounded like a call to arms, an optimistic reaching out toward all the great things the future might hold. Zbigniew GostomskiEs Beginnt in BreslauAlmost 40 years later, Gostomski’s project inspired Rafał Jakubowicz, a young artist from Poznań, who mounted a white neon spelling “ Es beginnt in Breslau” on the building of the BWA Awangarda gallery in the center of Wrocław. This German version of Gostomski’s phrase was supposed to evoke the context of the artistic event from 1970. It referenced Polish avant-garde art from the period of “ realist socialism,” with its milestones – the symposia and open air meetings in Osieki near Koszalin (Köslin), in Elbląg (Elbing), Zielona Góra (Grünberg) and Wrocław. All these events were organized on the so-called Recovered Territories, which are former Reich lands reclaimed by Poland after World War II. The communist authorities allowed these events to take place, because they created a new history for these lands that had none ( they were to be wiped clean of any traces of German history). Rafał Jakubowicz, Es beginnt in Breslau, 2008GROTOWSKI, HAS, RÓŻEWICZWrocław was almost razed to the ground during the siege of Festung Breslau in the spring of 1945 and it has been trying to rebuild itself for decades. Despite its weak economic situation, Wrocław became an important cultural center. The intelligentsia, resettled here from Lviv ( Lwów in Polish) after World War II, has set the intellectual tone of the entire city. The rebuilt University of Wrocław had a booming Polish studies department. The headquarters of the cultural magazine “ Odra” was based here, just like Jerzy Grotowski’s avant-garde “ Laboratorium” theater and the local film studio, birthplace of the cult classic “ The Saragossa Manuscript”, directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The poet and playwright Tadeusz Różewicz also settled in Wrocław. There were numerous avant-garde initiatives in the field of visual arts taking place in Wrocław – from the “ Mona Lisa” concept gallery and Jerzy Ludwiński’s Current Art Museum, through the new media exhibitions in the Permafo and Foto-Medium-Art galleries, up to anarchist provocations of the Orange Alternative and the Luxus group in the 1980s. RE-BOOTJakubowicz’s question about “ when” does Wrocław start is a fundamental issue for the local culture and the identity of modern inhabitants of the city. The polls conducted recently in Wrocław by Paweł Kubicki, a sociologist from the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, show that when asked about the most important source of self-identification, the people of Wrocław mentioned the common experience of defending the city from flooding in 1997. During one of many debates discussing the same topic, the local intellectuals mentioned other sources as well: the memories of working with then-underground “ Solidarność” movement in the 1980s or even the older memories of old post-war institutions transplanted from Lviv ( Lwów) to Wrocław. However, the debate was called “ Can you invent your own tradition?,” and the title, devised by a local journalist, Łukasz Medeksza, indicates that something we could call “ local identity” in relation to being Polish, German or Czech (as Wrocław in its long history was also a part of the Czech state, and towards the end of the communist era, its inhabitants kept up the Solidarity with their southern neighbors) is still in a very nascent, dynamic and uncertain state. After the war, the city was filled with the resettled intellectual elite from Lviv ( Lwów), a few Germans that stayed but also people from the Eastern Borderlands, Varsovians from the ruined capital, people from Greater Poland and all sorts of folks who wanted to find a new life in the Reclaimed Territories. WROCŁAW, BRESLAU, BRECLAVAlthough almost 70 years have passed since the war ended, the phantasmagorical German presence in the city’s architecture and urban plan is confronted every day with the Polish element and is also present in the discourse of local cultural institutions. The national museum has a permanent exhibit of Silesian sculpture (please note the semantics – not German, but Silesian), Polish modern art and a representative collection of pre-war avant-garde art from Lviv ( Lwów) (the “ Artes” group), while for the Municipal Museum, history of Wrocław shows that it is mostly a German city. Similar proclivities can be seen in the choices made by the Architectural Museum staff, fascinated with unique examples of German modernist architecture in Wrocław (designed by Hans Scharoun, Max Berg and Erich Mendelsohn). The issue of negotiating the past and the present will surely arise with the Museum of Modern Art, currently located – while the building which will house it in the future is constructed – in a German air raid shelter that was a field hospital during the siege of Festung Breslau. A CITY UNDER CONSTRUCTIONWrocław was and surely is “ the meeting place.” It was such a place for people that settled here after the war and is such a place for those, who tempted by the city’s aura or job offers, remain here after graduating college or move here from different regions of Poland and the world. In this sense, Wrocław will forever be a young and dynamically developing metropolis. The phrase “ It Begins in Wrocław” still sounds appropriate, after all, numerous projects are currently under construction, like the Museum of Modern Art, the National Music Forum, a brand new sports stadium, a beltway, new bridges. The goal of these investments is making Wrocław a city with cutting-edge technologies, which isn’t surprising given the fact that the IT departments at the city’s universities are known for fostering creativity and innovation. WORKING ON MODERNITYWrocław is still friendly towards avant-garde art. There is a number of festivals taking place in Wrocław, like the Era New Horizons film festival, the Dialogue theater festival, Wratislavia Cantans music festival, the WRO Biennale. Wrocław also founded the Angelus Silesius Central European Literary Award. I think all these artistic events are best described by message expressed in the Policy Concept of the Wrocław Museum of Modern Art. The message reads: “ the Museum’s mission is to work on modernity using a wide range of activities (...). The knowledge obtained through experiencing art, absorbed through participation and the possibility of hearing some commentary on the experienced art is conducive to increasing the audience’s self-knowledge and defining the audience’s self-identity in private and public spaces as well as in a temporal perspective.” Translated by Jan Szelągiewicz
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Post by pgardecki on Oct 5, 2011 16:20:26 GMT 1
Here is list of official festivals in Wroclaw.
WROCLAW FESTIVALS
Music Festivals:
Summer Opera Festival. It is a festival organised by the Wrocław Opera. Its idea is to perform outside the Opera building, in the open air; in this way the shows presented are more accessible to the public and accommodate more audience.
International Festival Wratislavia Cantans continues since 1966. During the festival the public enjoys cantatas, symphonic, chamber and opera music as well as ballet performances, exhibitions, oratorios, vocal and instrumental recitals.
Musica Electronica Nova came to life in 2005 and since then earned several prestigious awards. The idea of the festival is to search for new ways of musical and aesthetic experiences, often by means of unconventional instruments and innovative arrangements. It is organised by Association of Polish Composers and Impart Centre of Art.
Festival of Contemporary Opera, organized by Wrocław Opera, presents works of composers written in 20th and 21st century. It stages operas less famous than classic repertoire, but very interesting in their music and dramatization.
Musica Polonica Nova is organised since 1962 and promotes Polish contemporary music, presenting prestigious national premieres performed by foreign and Polish soloists.
World Double Bass Festival is a fiesta for lovers of the largest string instrument. The festival is organized by Polish Association of Double Bass Players, Karol Lipiński University of Music, Wrocław and the Wrocław Philharmonic. During the festival one can enjoy not only concerts performed by great artists from all the world, but also participate in master classes, meetings with artists, happenings and Double Bass Competition.
Leo Festival, initiated by a well-known Austrian violinist and conductor Ernst Kovacic is organized by Wrocław Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum. Its general manager Andrzej Kosendiak said: “Music entering other areas of art is a characteristic feature of our event. It gives a chance to discover new worlds not only for the audience but also for us – artists”.
Forum Musicum is a festival of music of the past centuries, played on early musical instruments or their copies; it encourages historical performing practices. Festival guests present very diverse programme including works of composers from various musical epochs – from the Middle Ages to the present times.
Arsenal Nights – Chamber Music Festival. The initiator and host of this festival, held since 1997, is the Chamber Orchestra “Wratislavia”. Concerts take place in the beautiful courtyard of Wrocław Arsenal in late evenings in June and July. Acoustics of the courtyard makes it an excellent venue for the presentation of both chamber music in its purest form (trios, quartets), and of works composed for chamber orchestras.
International Clarinet Festival “Clarimania” is an annual festival organized by Karol Lipiński University of Music. Its programme includes concerts, recitals, master classes, lectures, meetings with artists and exhibitions of instruments.
May with Early Music takes place since 1992. The idea behind the festival is to present the music written for medieval, renaissance and baroque instruments. All concerts are held in the historic setting of Wrocław (including City Hall, Museum of Architecture, Oratorio Marianum). The music is performed by price-winner artists and ensembles, as well as by young students of early music.
International Festival of Viennese Music takes place since 1993 and promotes Viennese music. The festival program covers dance music, operetta and symphony.
International Festival “Non Sola Scripta” is a Wrocław festival known also as Wrocław Organ Summer. Besides organ recitals its programme includes also chamber concerts.
Pax et Bonum Festival. Leading idea of the festival is to combine music with efforts on behalf the peace in the world. This alternative form of expression of pacifism was originated by the Wrocław Franciscan Order.
Young Classics Wratislavia – Festival of Young Orchestras is organized for young school orchestras from the whole Europe. It is a result of cooperation of musicians from Poland and Germany; young musicians from both countries prepare common programme and later go on a tour with it.
Thanks Jimi Festival is combined with attempts to establish a Guinness World Record in the number of guitarist playing Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” on the Wrocław Market Square. It has been organized by Leszek Cichoński, musician and educator, who set the aim to teach people a new Hendrix song every year.
The Jazz on the Odra River is the oldest music festival in Wrocław; it is organised annually since 1964. The Festival hosted world known artists from around the world: Pat Metheny, Paco de Lucia, Stan Getz, Don Cherry, Larry Coryell, McCoy Tyner, Al Di Meola, Buddy Rich and many others. Jazz played by the Odra River became a musical flagship of Wrocław.
Wrocław Guitar Festival. The main idea of the festival is to present the possibilities of combining noble guitar sound with sounds of other instruments. The festival combines classical music with a fiery flamenco guitar, unique in its improvisation jazz and carrying the joyous praise of life Latin American Folk. Every year the Festival invites Polish and foreign virtuosos of the guitar. Besides concerts, lectures and master classes are held during the festival.
Stage Songs Review is the oldest festival of this kind in Poland. It has been held in Wrocław for more than 25 years now. Every year artists of music avant-garde arrive in the capital of the Lower Silesia. Among review events there are: Song Interpretation Contest (now international), Theatre School’s Day, concerts and recitals.
Avant Art Festival is one of the young Wrocław festivals. It is dedicated to music, including experimental music, contemporary dance and performance. Organisers are interested not only in etiquettes and stylistic divisions but in pure artistic quality.
Jazztopad is a festival idea of the Wrocław Philharmonic to brighten up the rainy Autumn period. Yearly the festival becomes more and more important jazz festival in Poland and in Europe. Till now it hosted such stars as Wayne Shorter, Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler, Manu Katche and Terje Rypdal.
Havdalah Concerts are monthly meetings with the music in the White Stork Synagogue. They are held every last Saturday of the month and begin after sunset. It is being organised by the Jewish Community and Foundation PRO ARTE.
Sailor Song Festival are meetings with folk music. The festival takes place since 1989 and is addressed to children, youth and sailing enthusiasts. It consists of two parts: the competition and the concerts; in both professional and amateur artists perform.
Wrocław Industrial Festival is the only festival of this type in eastern part of Europe. The festival presents avantgarde art: music, plastic and visual arts, performance. The leading idea is a multimedia expression of different aspects of our technicized world, recognised by collective subconsciousness as an opportunity, but also as a danger. The festival refers to creation of artists from the beginning of 20th century: futurists, environmental art and industrial art.
One Love Festival during its four years existence it evolved into the biggest hall reggae music festival in Europe. The festival goes beyond the stereotypes and conventions. In Wrocław Centennial Hall it gathers several thousands of people who enjoy the rhythm of music and share the feeling of love and fraternity.
Ethno Jazz Festival. Over the past years organisers managed to bring world’s best jazz musicians to Wrocław. The festival attracts masses of ethno jazz music enthusiasts. Very quickly Ethno Jazz Festival created its own space and earned a solid position at the Wrocław music stage.
Asymmetry Festival. The festival, organised by the Wrocław club Firlej, Asymmetry agency and other institutions, is devoted to a search for avant-garde in rock, metal and original electro music. The festival is a hybrid combining elements of drone, sludge and postrock music. Organizers focus on modern transmission channels and European dimension.
Summer with the White Stork Music. This event, organized by Bente Kahan Foundation Jewish, became a festival of Klezmer and Folk music. In the past it also presented classic, pop, jazz, and opera music.
Sensation White is one of the world’s biggest events where masses of people dressed in white dance to modern techno music. Sensation White means acrobatic dances, fire shows, lasers, fantastic technical setting taking advantage of newest technologies and stars from around the world. It has been for several years now that fans of electro music come to Wrocław Centennial Hall.
Energy of the Sound is a festival of musical avant-garde organized by Industrial Art association. Apart from the energy of daring and unconventional music, “Energy of the Sound” has also an educative aspect comprising lectures, workshops and presentations.
Ambiental Festival is an event organized by Wrocław club Formaty. It promotes ambitious electronic music. Atmosphere of the festival oscillates between ambient, minimal, lounge and trip hop music. Organizers provide the audience with electric and innovative gigs of Polish and foreign artists.
3rd of May Festival is a festival of Polish rock music. The best Polish bands play on the second weekend of May at Słodowa Island in Wrocław under the slogan “The best Polish bands at the best annual rock event”.
Visual Art Festivals:
International Media Art Biennale WRO is considered – both by the experts and the audience – to be a major review of media art in Poland and Central Europe. The crux of the festival is an international competition for works of art depicting the complexity of contemporary art by means of different formats and media.
“SURVIVAL” Review of Young Art in the extreme conditions is the only art festival in public space of this scale in Poland. The review selects buildings, complexes of buildings, halls located close to major event centres, as well as public spaces where the daily life of the city concentrates.
Geppert’s Contest. The aim of the competition is the presentation of the most interesting phenomena within the young painting scene selected by most eminent curators from the whole country. Tradition of the contest and exhibition goes back to 1989.
High Temperatures Festival is a result of efforts of young artists: students, graduates and educators of Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts, as well as Grawiton, an association supporting young artists. Inspiration to organize the festival was a common fascination with possibilities and the magic of fire in the creation process with such materials as metal, glass and ceramics.
International Drawing Competition. Aim of the festival is to show phenomena characteristic of modern art of drawing (multiplicity of style and artistic attitudes). The competition is enriched by paratheatrical activities, performances and installations.
Interdisciplinary Festivals:
Museums at Night is an event allowing people to visit museums, galleries and exhibition halls during evening and night hours for free or for a symbolic entrance fee. Wrocław “Museums Night” is very popular and is accompanied by many events organised by various cultural institutions.
Wrocław Festival. Concerts, exhibitions and other cultural events, ceremonial City Council sessions, orders for honoured citizens, celebration of the day of John the Baptist, patron of Wrocław – these are only some entries of annual celebration of Wrocław Festival.
Simcha – Festival of Jewish Culture and Havdalah Concerts bring closer Jewish culture to the society of Wrocław and Lower Silesia for over 12 years. In the very centre of the Quarter of Mutual Respect various events gather people eager for art, knowledge and contact with Jewish tradition, open for dialogue, mutual tolerance and respect.
Festival of National and Ethnic Minorities “Kaleidoscope of Cultures”. The aim of the festival is to bring closer to citizens of Wrocław the work of artists representing national minorities; German, Ukrainian, Greek, Roma, Lemko, Jewish, Crimean and Bulgarian. The festival attracts not only professional artists but also amateurs fascinated by culture of their ancestors and cultivation of their tradition.
Lower Silesian Science Festival is a popular scientific event organized annually in September (stationary edition) and in October (outgoing sessions in Legnica, Jelenia Góra, Wałbrzych, Ząbkowice Śląskie and Bystrzyca Kłodzka). It is organised by the higher education institutions from Wrocław, Polish Academy of Sciences and non-academic institutions. The festival is addressed to all people interested in science, culture, art and all interesting phenomena in the surrounding world.
Underwater Wrocław Festival. Music and design, cinema and architecture, theatre and intermedial art, photography and literature, fashion, kitsch and underground – Underwater Wrocław is an interdisciplinary festival crossing the disciplinary borders.
Tumskie Nights are concerts taking place regularly since 1999 in the temples of Tumski Island and in the auditorium of Pontifical Faculty of Theology every month’s last Sunday.
Days of Muslim Culture is an annual event organized by Muslim minority of Wrocław. Its aim is to promote culture and the religious thought of Islam, present Muslim contribution to European culture and overcome false and detrimental stereotypes about Muslim minority.
Churches Night is a cultural event patterned on “Museums at Night”, stressing the religious spiritual aspect. During the event one can visit places which commonly are closed and inaccessible for tourist, e.g. crypts of Wrocław Cathedral.
Juwenalia is above all a period of good time and fun, enabling students to forget about upcoming end-ofterm examinations. It is a mass event, full of concerts, sport competitions and other attractions.
“Europe on the Fork” is not only a gastronomic festival. Its aim is to bring citizens of Wrocław closer to tastes and cultural variety of Europe. Tasting of different cuisines is accompanied by numerous concerts.
Festival “Between East and West” is an interdisciplinary event uniting eastern and western tradition of civilization and culture. The festival is unique and exceptional on the Polish scale, for the culture and art of the East are presented in one of the most westernised regions in Poland.
Theatre Festivals:
International Theatre Festival DIALOGUEWROCŁAW is a review of the most interesting theatrical phenomena in Europe. The festival takes place in a biannual cycle (in odd years) and lasts seven days – from Monday to Sunday. Every day, in accordance with the idea of dialogue, at least two performances are presented: one Polish and one foreign. Summary of the festival is a professionally prepared panel discussion.
The Brave Festival – Against Expulsion From Culture is an event aimed to present activities of the people working to protect their own cultures, traditions, spirituality and sensibility, who cultivate mysteries of rituals, ceremonies, and songs. It is a festival devoted to genuine environmentalists of culture who help many marginalized and forgotten communities to survive.
International Theatre Festival “World is a Place of Truth” is a festival which name is referring to one of Jerzy Grotowski’s performances. It is an opportunity to meet the work of directors who, during their career, were reshaping various areas of theatre in 20th century, often broadening the borders of this area of art.
International Meetings of the Puppet Theatre Academies. This regular event has already ingrained itself in the consciousness of European puppet theatre fans and professionals. Every two years students and educators, theoreticians and practicians of puppet theatre meet in Wrocław to confront their didactical programmes, assess condition of education, exchange experiences and opinions about teaching in a relation between school and theatre.
International Festival of Pantomime and Dance KINEMA. This festival combines the art of pantomime with film and dance theatre. It is an only event of this kind in Poland, offering the audience knowledge of many areas of art, including seemingly distant forms of artistic activity.
International Festival of Cabarets – WROCEK has always brought days of fun, filled with shows of contemporary Polish cabaret stage and of invited guests.
International Festival of Street Artists – BUSKERBUS attracts at least 80 performers who participate in the festival: musicians, circus artists, clowns, mimes, acrobats from Poland and abroad. They are mostly street artists from all the world (buskers), soloists and groups, representatives of various disciplines of street art.
Literary Festivals:
International Short Story Festival is a celebration of short literary form. An overall aim of the festival is a promotion of intercultural dialogue.
Literary Post Wrocław is one of the largest literary festivals in Poland. Programme of the festival is filled with books premieres, lectures, poetic presentations and contests, film screenings.
Silesius Wrocław Poetic Award is a prize awarded during festival Literary Port. “Silesius” is a distinction and promotion of the most important works and creators of Polish poetry. The prize is funded by the City of Wrocław, its name derives from Angelus Silesius, a baroque poet, mystic and philosopher.
Angelus Central European Literature Award is the most important award in the area of prose works translated into Polish for writers originating from Central Europe. In their works they all undertake most important topics for the present, force to think and deepen our knowledge about the world of other cultures.
International Detective Stories Festival. The idea of the festival is to present latest crime stories. During the festival The Award of Great Calibre is awarded to the best Polish crime story.
Wrocław Promotion of Good Books. Aim of this event is to promote literature of high quality and artistic and typographic merits. Audience’s meetings with publishers, writers and publicists are also targets of this event.
GOOD PAGES – Children and Youth Books Fair is a celebration of books for children and young readers. The fair lasts several days and is filled with various events, meetings with authors, readings of fairy tales and plastic contests.
Wrocław Cheap Book Reading. The aim of the fair and accompanying events is to promote of ambitious and valuable literature. Participants of the fair can buy books as discounted prices.
Film Festivals:
International Film Festival Era New Horizons is a festival of movies crossing boundaries of conventional cinema. It is a festival of cinema visionaries, uncompromising artists, brave enough to follow their chosen path against any fashion and to tell about the most important things by means of their inimitable language.
Interscenario: International Scriptwriters Festival is an innovative and unique cultural event in Poland. Its first edition took place in 2007. Overall aim of the festival is to create in Poland the space for dialogue “interscenario” – between scriptwriters, directors and film producers, but also between professionals and audience.
American Film Festival is an occasion to get acquainted with contemporary American cinema, as well as with culture and reality of the United States. The festival presents the most recent movies of both acknowledged directors and less known artists.
KAN – International Festival of Amateur and Independent Cinema is one of the largest events of this type in our country. The festival presents movies of amateur artists competing for Golden KANewka prize and works of recognized independent Polish and foreign artists.
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