Warsaw

Initiatives

Venues

• Arton Foundation, gallery, *2010
• Café Kulturalna
• Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, *1985
• Czułość, gallery, *2010
• Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, *2013
• Foksal Gallery, *1966
• Galeria Kohana, *2014
• Galeria Monopol
• Galeria Propaganda, *2007
• Galeria Salon Akademii
• Galeria Starter
• Galeria Stereo, *2009
• Leto Gallery, *2007
• lokal_30, *2003
• Museum of Modern Art, *2012
• OSiR Cafe
• Piktogram Gallery, *2013
• Powiekszenie/Plan Be, cafe club
• Raster, gallery
• Super Salon, bookstore, *2012
• Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, *1860
• more

Other initiatives

• Archive of Polish Experimental Film
• Centrum Cyfrowe
• EA
• Feminist Seminar (SemFem), *2017
• Grupa ETC
• KEM, *2016
• Komuna// Warszawa
• Lado ABC, label
• MonotypeRec, label
• Notes, magazine
• Neurobot
• Obywatelskie Forum Sztuki Współczesnej, *2009
• Open Source Culture Foundation
• OKO.press, investigative journalism project, *2016
• Panoptykon, *2009
• polE, magazine
• Polish Radio Experimental Studio, *1957
• Radio Kapitał, community radio, *2019
• Szum, magazine
• Warsaw Observatory of Culture, WOK, *2022
• more

Events

• Biennale Warszawa, *2019
• Flesztival, festival, *2003
• Moving Closer, festival, *2007
• Musica Genera, festival, since 2009
• Warsaw Art Book Fair, *2015
• Warsaw Autumn, festival, *1956

Past events

• Sonics & Scenics, festival of sound arts and artist film, 2025, [1]
• Internationalism After the End of Globalisation, summit, 2019
• The Wild West. A History of Wrocław's Avant-Garde, exhibition, 2015
• CopyCamp, *2012
• Open Government Data Camp, 2011
• Medialab Warszawa, 2011
• The Labour of the Multitude?, conference, 2011
• The future is not what it used to be, exhibition, 2010
• Upgrade! Warsaw, *2007
• Kultura 2.0, 2006
• Translocation new media/art, exhibition and symposium, 1999
• Internet Workshop 02, 1997
• New Territory of Expression, workshop, 1996
• LAB, festival/exhibition, 1991-1997
• In the Middle of Europe, 1991
• I Am, exhibition, 1978

Art workers

• Alek Tarkowski (1977)
• Aleksandra Hriszfeld
• Aleksandra Janus
• Artur Jaworski (aka Viön)
• Artur Kozdrowski (aka Podletz$)
• Arturas Bumšteinas
• Darek Makaruk
• Dominik Kowalczyk (aka Wolfram) (1969)
• Jacek Skolimowski (1980)
• Jacek Staniszewski (aka Facial Index)
• Jan Pieniazek
• Jan Sowa
• Jarosław Lipszyc (1975)
• Jerzy Truszkowski (1961)
• Joanna Warsza (1976)
• Jozef Robakowski (1939)
• Kamil Antosiewicz (aka Membrana)
• Karol Suka (aka Arkona)
• Konrad Dulkowski
• Konrad Smoleński (1977)
• Kuba Szreder (1977)
• Krzysztof Żwirblis (1953)
• Krzysztof Szlifirski (1934)
• Luiza Nader
• Lukasz Ronduda (1976)
• Marika Kuźmicz
• Marta Sztanka (1975)
• Maryna Tomaszewska
• Patryk Zakrocki (aka Meoma)
• Piotr Rypson (1956)
• Roch Forowitz (1978)
• Ryszard Kluszczynski (1952)
• Sebastian Cichocki (1975)
• Wiesław Godzic (1953)
• Zbigniew Libera (1959)
• RIP: Wlodzimierz Kotonski (1925-2014).

Publications

• Marta Dubrzynska, Michiel van der Haagen, "A report about the Internet in Poland", c.1996. [2]

• Artistic, Collective, Metropolitan. Warsaw art studios as micro-institutions, ed. Vera Zalutskaya, Warsaw: Warsaw Observatory of Culture, 2024, 30 pp, PDF. Publisher. (English)

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