The Adam Mickiewicz Institute carries out a wealth of projects related to visual arts. Thanks to individual and group shows, and the establishment and maintenance of a presence at top-level events abroad, Polish artists are becoming part of the international cultural scene. The Institute also supports young artists through numerous residency programmes and by organising study visits for critics and curators, representatives of museums and galleries, and journalists.
The key to our success is fruitful collaboration with renowned partners including the Whitechapel Gallery, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Gasworks, Oslo Open, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, National Museum in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and ms1 and ms2 in Łódź.
Our work in the visual arts has led to exhibitions that drew significant numbers of visitors and won widespread media coverage: Andrzej Wróblewski’s Verso/Reverso in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid; Halka/Haiti in the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Storylines, featuring Agnieszka Kurant and Paweł Althamer, in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as Polish artists’ contributions to the most important art biennials around the world, and artistic residencies.
Key events in 2016 include the exhibition in the Polish pavilion at the 15th international Biennale di Venezia architecture exhibition; the exhibition Common Affairs in the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin; a Krzysztof Wodiczko exhibition at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, organised as part of the Liverpool Biennial; Iza Tarasewicz’s participation in the Sao Paulo Biennale and Paulina Ołowska’s exhibition in PIVO in Sao Paulo.
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