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Searching for the essence of Polishness through different exhibitions, encounters and experiences. A Romanian art critic in Poland. Part one.

All the people I met during my stay in Prague seemed unanimous: when it came to young artists’ commitment to social issues and their critical approach towards reality, the young…

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a museum boom is happening in Poland, numerous grand-scale historical exhibitions were organized. Within the scope of the East Art Mags residency programme we…

Personal report of a journey to Bucharest’s art world by a Polish art critic.

East Art Mags explored Hungarian monuments. Flag with a hole, barbed wire, wagon, star. What are these symbols supposed to remind of? Tamed public spaces, distorting memories.

Personally, I neither know how the artistic circles could help solve this problem, nor how artists like Ai Wei Wei could contribute. But one thing I do know: considering the context it…

“There was no such thing” – that’s what you usually hear when you ask about the phenomenon that about a decade ago made western audience, still eager to find some…

Once it was a famous tractor factory but not only a factory: a community, a whole quarter in the city. Now artists and activists are trying to give back the…

It is possible to visit each and every art institution in Prague in fourteen days. In Warsaw, there will even be some time left for the remote Poster Museum, that…