The World Expo 2025 Osaka will be accompanied by a unique cultural programme under the slogan Po!land ポ！ランド, organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. AMI has just announced first events of the programme that will continue until October 2025.
The 78th edition of the Edinburgh International Festival – one of the UK’s most prestigious and longest-running festivals – will take place in Edinburgh between 1 and 24 August 2025. This year’s programme, under the theme “The Truth We Seek”, will, for the first time in the festival’s history, feature Focus on Poland – a unique section dedicated to Polish music.
From 14 March onwards an exhibition ‘Familiar Strangers. Eastern Europeans’, which takes a look at the transformations in Eastern Europe from the perspective of artists living in Poland, will be available to viewers at Bozar– Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. The exposition gives voice to persons from diasporas and minorities and those who broaden the perception of the public sphere through art and activism.
From March to November, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the British Council will present an ambitious UK programme, showcasing projects across a range of art forms, including classical music, jazz, experimental music, visual arts, photography, theatre, and film.
Another year of the Poland-Romania and Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025 – the first ever cultural cooperation between these countries with such an outreach – begins. From classical music, through contemporary interpretations of traditions, performative arts, theatre, visual arts, photography, and design, to literature – intense months laden with events are awaiting the Polish and Romanian audiences.
With events encompassing film, theatre, visual art, design and music, the Season marks a new chapter in relations between Poland and the United Kingdom.
On 14th January 2025, the international programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union was officially inaugurated in Brussels. From January to June 2025, under the slogan ‘Culture Sparks Unity’, nearly 100 cultural events will take place in over 20 European countries.
Beginning in January 2025, Polish art and culture will take centre stage all across Europe. In celebration of Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, between January and June 2025, nearly 100 cultural events such as concerts, plays, exhibitions, film screenings, and literary events will take place in more than 20 European countries.
Katarzyna Roj’s “A Brief Vacation” project won the competition for the exhibition in the Adam Mickiewicz Institute-coordinated Polish Pavilion at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition. The main theme of the exhibition is the concept of “a day sanatorium” that combines a number of different functions and caters to the needs of a multicultural community.
From 10 December 2024 viewers in Tokyo will have an opportunity to experience the artistic accomplishments of one of Poland’s most distinguished directors, Academy Award winner Andrzej Wajda. The monographic exhibition “Wajda” dedicated to the director will be accompanied by a review of selected films, which will run until 26 December 2024.
