Polish Perspectives. Artistic Positions and Debates from Poland
On the occasion of the Polish EU Council Presidency, the European Alliance of Academies is organising a diverse programme to focus on the newly emerging artistic and cultural landscape in Poland. Artistic and discursive contributions are dedicated to the questions of what traces the PiS government’s years of interference in artistic freedom have left behind and how the Polish art and culture scene is dealing with the political changes. The role of women, who have been instrumental in driving political change, will also be discussed.
The programme will be held mainly in English. Translations in German will be provided.
In co-operation with the Polish Institute Berlin. Supported by the Goethe Institute Warsaw and Villa Decius Kraków.
Programme
2 – 2:15 pm, Studio Lobby
Welcome
Manos Tsangaris, President of the Akademie der Künste
Katarzyna Sitko, Acting Director of the Polish Institute Berlin
2:15 – 3 pm, Studio Lobby
Reading and Conversation “Günter Grass and Poland”
3 – 4 pm, Studio Lobby
Debate “The role of women in political change”
Dr. Dominika Kasprowicz, Director of Villa Decius Kraków
Anna Krenz, Artist, architect, editor and activist
Joanna Mytkowska [tbc], Director Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Anna Smolar, Theatre director
Moderation: Dr. Karolina Golimowska, Polish Institute Berlin
4 – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 – 5:30 pm, Studio
Sound Performance Rebirth
Performance: Phoebe Bognár
Direction: Anna Sowa
4:30 – 5:30 pm, Clubroom
Theatre performance JaWa
By and with Janek Turkowski and Iwona Nowacka
5:30 – 6 pm
Break
6 – 7 pm, Studio Lobby
Reading and Conversation
Joanna Bator, Writer
Lisa Palmes, Translator
7 – 8 pm, Studio Lobby
Debate “Turning point – what’s next? Current developments in Polish cultural policy”
Olga Brzezińska, Deputy Director Adam-Mickiewicz-Institute
Jacek Dehnel, Poet, prose writer, translator and painter
Krzysztof Głuchowski and Edyta Sotowaska-Śmiłek, Słowacki Theatre Kraków
Robert Piaskowski, Director National Centre for Culture in Warsaw
Moderation: Julia Hanske, Director of Goethe Institute Warsaw
8 – 9 pm, Studio Lobby
Conversation
Agnieszka Holland, Film director, screenwriter
9 pm, Studio
Film: Green Border (Zielona granica)
PL CZ FR BE, 2023, 147 min
Direction: Agnieszka Holland
9 – 10 pm, Clubroom
Theatre performance JaWa
By and with Janek Turkowski and Iwona Nowacka
Address: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10
Olga Tokarczuk: Empusion 
