Stefania Gurdowa: Negatives are to be stored

Eleven years ago, at the attic of a tenement-house in the town of Debica, over a thousand of damaged glass negative plates were discovered. Most of them depicted expressive portraits of anonymous individuals living in the neighbourhood in the 20’s and 30’s.
One could tell hardly anything about an author of the plates at the first [...]

Borders

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A photographic exhibition presenting rich tradition of Polish national costumes, worn by members of different ethnic groups tries to confront the individual with aspects of ethnic, cultural and racial uniqueness. The genesis of this photographic presentation was a series of discussions about recent changes in Poland. The image of Polish society was frozen during the Communist [...]

Rabbit a la Berlin / Esterhazy

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2010 Academy Award Nominee – Best Documentary Short. A story about the thousands of wild rabbits which lived in the Death Zone of the Berlin Wall. The film is an allegory which brings closer the history of Eastern Europe as seen from the ‘rabbit’ perspective. “Berlin without a wall is no longer as snug” – as [...]

Kacper Kowalski: Polska on AIR

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Kacper Kowalski, last year’s World Press Photo winner and the second best paragliding pilot in the world, is showing extraordinary aerial photographs for the first time in Belfast. As both a pilot and photographer, Kacper Kowalski is in absolute control of the speed and the precise angle of the shot. He shows urban landscapes and rural [...]

Solidarity, Solidarity

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, the first non-communist party controlled trade union in a Warsaw pact country, legendary director Andrzej Wajda brought together 13 outstanding Polish directors to shoot a series of short films which express their personal thoughts about the social movement which changed the face of Europe. The answers [...]

Polska! Folk

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The exhibition will feature works by Polish designers inspired by Polish folk art and crafts – form, materials, technical solutions, and folk poetics. The exhibition was on display in London during the London Design Festival in the autumn of 2009. POLSKA FOLK is organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw as part of POLSKA! YEAR [...]