Biennale Warszawa34/50 Marszałkowska Street (MA3450) Google map MDM, between Plac Zbawiciela and Plac Konstytucji, entrance from Marszałkowska Street. See also 19.07.2021 Tytus Szabelski The Rope / Sznur What happens if I buy The Communist Manifesto in an online store of a digital giant who exploits their employees? Will the... 15.06.2021 Monika Drożyńska Concern C-O-N-C-E-R-N. CO-NCE-RN. To be concerned means to care for, to look after somebody, something, or yourself. The same Polish... 25.11.2020 Project author: Tytus Szabelski Our workday at Amazon / Factory without lights In a video installation displayed in the Biennale Warszawa front window, Tytus Szabelski will present the new version of the found... 09.10.2020 Project author: Daniel Kotowski Important matter “One day Sławek asked me to film him. Sławek has something he wants to say to you.” We would like to invite... 07.10.2020 We Protect You From Yourselves a/political and Biennale Warszawa present collective Democracia with a special intervention from collective Syrena 06.10.2020 work-in-progress performance To See Climate (Change) “To See Climate (Change)” is an artistic research project initiated at the beginning of 2020 by Romuald Krężel and René... 01.10.2020 WGW 2020: DMKHV live act Galeria Szara invites you to the event accompanying the exhibition “No Regerts”: DMKHV live act DMKHV is an experimental... 19.09.2020 Oprowadzanie po instalacji „Robimy manifesty! / Manifest ksenofeministyczny” Po instalacji „Robimy manifesty! / Manifest ksenofeministyczny” oprowadzają jej twórcy i twórczynie: Adam Duriasz, Anna... 09.09.2020 Realised by: Adam Durjasz, Asia Kosiorek, Anna Pajęcka, Ada Tymińska, Dorian Widawski Installation / We are making manifestos! / Xenofeminist Manifesto After a break caused by the pandemic, 3kolektyw returns with the third part of “We are making manifestos!”. This return is... 09.09.2020 Lecture: Maciej Grodzicki PhD (UJ), moderator: Przemysław Wielgosz (LMD-PL) Globalised production, or the butterfly effect in practice So far, global value chains brought us primarily increasingly cheap mass consumption products with labels like Made in China, Vietnam,... 09.09.2020 Lecture: Zofia Łapniewska PhD (UJ), moderator: Przemysław Wielgosz (LMD-PL) Commons or communal goods – can we take care of them in the 21st century? Material and non-material commons on which our survival and quality of life depends, albeit so crucial, have been disregarded... 02.09.2020 Szymon Szewczyk No Regerts Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020 Galeria Szara at Biennale Warszawa 02.09.2020 Meeting around "Buried Sun" Can wind turbines and solar panels save us? In the meeting we will be discussing fossil fuels, renewable energy sources and the climate crisis. Conversations around production,... 14.07.2020 Project author: Marta Romankiv Immigrant, take a vote!Project presentation In the recent years, Poland has become one of the world leaders in accepting migrant workers. However, this group does not have... 17.06.2020 Author: Marta Romankiv ELECTIONS Immigrants, let's vote! What is the current role of immigrants in Poland? Are they new citizens or just a temporary economic solution? If you are an immigrant... 29.02.2020 Event as part of the side programme during the opening weekend “Race and Forest”Nabil Ahmed’s Guided Tour The tour of the exhibition “Race and Forest” is conducted by Nabil Ahmed from research team INTERPRT. Free admission during... 29.02.2020 Nabil Ahmed's (INTERPRT) lecture Fighting impunity in a warming world Event as part of the side programme accompanying the exhibition "Race and Forest” 20.02.2020 The exhibition will be open until 28 June 2020 Race and Forest INTERPRT 19.02.2020 Wystawa “Antydystopia”Innowacyjne projekty studentów School of Ideas Zapraszamy na wernisaż projektów studentek i studentów trzeciego semestru School of Ideas. Różnorodność, przyszłość... 13.02.2020 Warszawska edycja POZYTYWNYCH ROZMÓW realizowanych w ramach działań kampanii "Niewykrywalni" Pozytywne Rozmowy z Brucem Richmanem Będziemy gościć w Warszawie twórcę ruchu U=U, Bruce’a Richmana (Dyrektora Wykonawczego kampanii Prevention Access).... 18.01.2020 a roundtable with human rights, anti-discrimination and social justice activists (Un)Expected Alliances: Intersectional Solidarity The rountable (Un)Expected Alliances: Intersectional Solidarity brings together human rights, anti-discrimination and social justice... 17.01.2020 Meeting with Jakub Janiszewski, author of the book "Who has HIV in Poland?" (2013) Who has HIV in Poland? Revisited ‘”We have succeeded” – says the Ministry of Health when inquired about the Polish HIV/AIDS epidemic. “We have... 17.01.2020 Screening of video documentation from the joint action intervention at the 2018 International AIDS conference, "Pharma Lies" (dir. Todd Sekuler) and open discussion with treatment activists Medicines, Rights and Profits: Complex Entanglements between Pharma and Activism Admission free Event in English, not translated There are multiple types of relationships that exist between the pharmaceutical industry... 17.01.2020 Lecture by Justyna Struzik (EUROPACH, IS UJ) Manoeuvring, Activism and HIV/AIDS Policy Worlds in Poland What do everyday HIV/AIDS policy worlds look like in Poland? How do people living with HIV, activists, and policy-makers negotiate... 17.01.2020 A meeting with activists from the Informal Sex Workers’ Collective, authors of the “Experience-based Toolkit - How to Do Sex Work in a Safe, Informed and Satisfactory Way” The Experience-based Toolkit – On the Sex Workers’ Project The Experience-based Toolkit – How to Do Sex Work in a Safe, Informed and Satisfactory Way is a book that emerged... 17.01.2020 Screening of "Ruins: Chronicle of an HIV Witch-Hunt" (dir. Zoi Mavroudi) with an introduction by Agata Dziuban and open discussion Witches, Ruins, Criminals, Victims?Intersectionality and HIV Criminalisation Admission free In the spring of 2012, as Greece was in the midst of a financial crisis and working to manage an emerging HIV... 17.01.2020 Screening of “Hope is Not an Obligation” (dir. Aga Szuścik) and discussion with harm reduction activists Harm Reduction: Living Politics Admission free What is the state of harm reduction in Poland? How do activists strategise their work and provide harm reduction... 17.01.2020 HIVstories: Living PoliticsCuratorial TourAlper Turan Admission free Event in English, not translated The tour of the exhibition HIVstories: Living Politics is conducted by Alper Turan,... 17.01.2020 HIVstories: Living PoliticsCuratorial TourMagdalena Rosińska Admission free Event in Polish The tour of the exhibition HIVstories: Living Politics is conducted by Magdalena Rosińska,... 17.01.2020 HIVstories: Living PoliticsCuratorial TourWojciech Tomczyński Admission free Event in Polish The tour of the exhibition HIVstories: Living Politics is conducted by Wojciech Tomczyński, chair of... 17.01.2020 HIVstories: Living PoliticsCuratorial tourBeata Kucharska Admission free Event in Polish The tour of the exhibition HIVstories: Living Politics is conducted by Beata Kucharska, member of Polish... 17.01.2020 HIVstories: Living PoliticsCuratorial TourAgata Dziuban, Friederike Faust, Todd Sekuler,... Admission free Event in English, translated into Polish The tour is conducted by Curatorial Team: Agata Dziuban, Friederike Faust,... 16.01.2020 2020, January 31 – March 1 HIVstories: Living Politics Exhibition in Biennale Warszawa (MA3450) at Marszałkowska Street 34/50 How are politics and life narratives in the fields of HIV/AIDS... 10.01.2020 Meeting with a Women Defend Rojava activist Internationalism as the direction of actions for Kurdish feminism The meeting will be held in English. Simultaneous interpreting to Polish will be available. What makes revolution a revolution... 07.01.2020 Maria Świetlik (Roz:Ruch), Jan J. Zygmuntowski (Instrat, ALK), moderator: Przemysław Wielgosz (LMD-PL) Economics and politics of radical technologies Each subsequent technological revolution promises to solve humanity’s problems – to triumph over poverty, exclusion, and the... 07.01.2020 Zuzanna Kowalik (Instrat, SGH), Agnieszka Mróz (Worker’s Initiative), moderator: Przemysław Wielgosz (LMD-PL) How to fight exploitation effectively in the 21st century? Henryka Bochniarz once said that one day there would be no more full-time jobs. What contributes to this promise – echoed... 26.11.2019 FLORAPHILIA. Rewolucja roślinWeekend zakończenia wystawy 26.11.2019 W ramach finisażu wystawy FLORAPHILIA. Rewolucja roślinOprowadzanie Aleksandry Jach Podczas spaceru po wystawie i przyglądaniu się pracom będziemy rozmawiali o kryzysie klimatycznym, turbokapitalizmie,... 26.11.2019 Dla osób niewidomych i z dysfunkcjami wzroku FLORAPHILIA. Rewolucja roślinOprowadzanie z audiodeskrypcją Oprowadzanie po wystawie “FLORAPHILIA. Rewolucja roślin” odbywa się w ramach “Spacerownika... 05.11.2019 Polska Akademia Nauk Ogród Botaniczny Centrum Zachowania Różnorodności Biologicznej w Powsinie FLORAPHILIA. Rewolucja roślinBotanik Adam Kapler oprowadza po wystawie Dowiedzcie się więcej o „zielonych migrantach”. Poznajcie ich rewolucyjny potencjał przekształcania nowych siedlisk... 21.10.2019 Bożena Keff, Jacek Leociak, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Roman Kurkiewicz Szlachetni kolaboranciKult Brygady Świętokrzyskiej Polska 2019. Gazety, plakaty, kampanie społeczne, reklamy w mediach społecznościowych – polska władza nie szczędzi... 15.10.2019 FLORAPHILIA. Revolution of PlantsCuratorial walkthrough in Polish Curatorial walkthrough of the exhibition. Event held in Polish. 15.10.2019 Screening of Igor and Ivan Buharov’s film Most of the Souls That Live Here Count Ervin Batthyány is a renowned anarchist teacher. He reappears 100 years after his death and tries to put his... 15.10.2019 Moderators: Aleksandra Jach, Aneta Rostkowska Learning from plants During the meeting, we will consider the question of whether plants may inspire us. What can we learn from plants in terms of our... 15.10.2019 Åsa SonjasdotterArtist talk The artist will talk about her artistic practice, especially projects that include cultivated plants like potatoes and grains. Her project... 15.10.2019 Performance by Dagna Jakubowska Edible Map of Migration Many urban, migrating, wild edible plants – growing on abandoned parkland, on wasteland and appearing in the cracks of pavements – are... 15.10.2019 FLORAPHILIA. Revolution of PlantsCuratorial walkthrough in English Curatorial walk through of the exhibition with the artist, curator and exhibition designer. Event held in English 14.10.2019 Film by Marwa Arsanios Solidarity with Rojava”Who is afraid of ideology?” Film in English with Polish subtitles Following the Turkish aggression on northern Syria, we decided to show again the two-part... 08.10.2019 Meeting with Didier Eribon The anatomy of shame and social exclusion Karakter and Biennale Warszawa invite you on 24 October at 18.00 to a meeting with Didier Eribon, author of an acclaimed book... 19.09.2019 Programowa konferencja prasowa 2019-2021 Udział wezmą: Julia Holewińska — reżyserka spektaklu “Hiroshima / Love” Paweł Wodziński — dyrektor Biennale Warszawa... 18.09.2019 Moderators: Tomasz Sierawski (Hackerspace Warszawa) Open source and freeware workshops Closed practice session within the Social School of Anti-capitalism. Participation subject to registration. Registration closes on 30 Septem 18.09.2019 Social Strike – strategic group game prepared by Plan C Closed practice session within the Social School of Anti-capitalism. Participation subject to registration. Registration closes on 30 Septem 18.09.2019 Moderators: Kolektyw Szarańcza Urban tactics/street workout, i.e. group action techniques Closed practice session within the Social School of Anti-capitalism. Participation subject to registration. Registration closes on 30 Septem 18.09.2019 Moderator: Ivan Borowy Imagination in the face of the crisis(-es) Closed practice session within the Social School of Anti-capitalism. Participation subject to registration. Registration closes on 30 Sept. 17.09.2019 Polish Social Forum Social School of Anti-capitalism Semester 1 17.09.2019 Warsaw Gallery Weekend. Galeria Szara w Biennale Warszawa Koncert Mołr Drammaz Koncert towarzyszący wystawie Wojtka Kucharczyka „CZY TO SEN, CZY JAWA?! NIE TO SUMATRA!” Mołr Drammaz W 2018 roku... 17.09.2019 Mikołaj Ratajczak (Theoretical Practice), Amel Mana (the Syrena collective and the Student Anti-fascist Committee) Private property is theft. Common property is wealth There is a good reason why private property is called “sacred”. For 30 years it has been an immovable dogma on which the faith in... 17.09.2019 Paweł Nowożycki, Katarzyna Rakowska (Workers’ Initiative), Zośka Marcinek Stop the system. Toward the social strike Strike takes place when workers demanding the fulfilment of their postulates voluntarily stop working to put pressure on private... 17.09.2019 Kolektyw Szarańcza, Sławomir Królak, Student Anti-fascist Committee, Łania and Margot (#stopBzdurom) Capitalism collapsing. A meeting on anti-fascism Extreme right is gaining power – this fact is hard to ignore. Wave after wave of neofascist marches sweeps across the country,... 17.09.2019 Ivan Borowy, John Halloway, Magdalena "Czapka" Chustecka We are the crisis (of the Capital) We are living in the times of a permanent Crisis. At every stage of the social and planetary life we can observe the collapse... 16.09.2019 2019, October 25 - December 29 FLORAPHILIA. Revolution of Plants Exhibition in Biennale Warszawa (MA3450) at Marszałkowska Street 22.08.2019 Curators: Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, Joanna Rzepka-Dziedzic CZY TO SEN, CZY JAWA?! NIE, TO SUMATRA!Wojciech Kucharczyk Wojciech Kucharczyk (b. 1969) is an audiovisual artist, musician and activist. He has recorded over 100 albums, had multiple... 16.08.2019 Giełda Projektów i Programów Edukacji Kulturalnej Giełda Projektów i Programów Edukacji Kulturalnej zaprezentuje laureatów 10 edycji konkursu Warszawska Nagroda Edukacji... 06.08.2019 Directing: Julia Holewińska Hiroshima / Love The spectacle Hiroshima / Love touches on the themes of necro-journey, ecology, catastrophe, destruction, love and memory (or lack thereof).... 07.07.2019 A project by Solomon Nagler and Angela Henderson Speculative cartographies The rise of awareness of human impact on the environment and the emergence of a new paradigm in the humanities, which can be described... 25.06.2019 Brud prezentuje TroopPerformans W manifeście „Perimagia” z 2018 Aditya Mandayam nawołuje do stworzenia Nowej Opery. Jak pisze: “Stoimy... 08.06.2019 Wykład performatywny We dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming #5Yasmina Reggad The performance We dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming #5 by Yasmina Reggad presents her ongoing research in Algeria,... 24.04.2019 Presentation of the book edited by Jan Sowa Solidarity 2.0, or democracy as a form of life A meeting with social activists and researchers of democracy summarising six months of lectures, seminars and debates, organized... 24.04.2019 Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus The Map of Violence Sexual violence perpetrated by the Catholic Church is a tragedy that has affected children all over the world, including in... 24.04.2019 Afrykańska dyskoteka na zakończenie Biennale Warszawa 2019 Za nami 56 wydarzeń w ramach I edycji Biennale Warszawa. Czas na 57. I to jakie! Zapraszamy Was... 24.04.2019 Marwa Arsanios Convention of Women Farmers In light of the urgency on the climate change issue, and while governments and corporations have been ignoring it for decades now without... 24.04.2019 Nation State. Four Escape StrategiesNúria Güell Four works by Nuria Güell, laid out in a maze of basements at MA3450, concern using the rules of the system (state and... 24.04.2019 Workshops, lectures, presentations, artistic-economic activity The Art of Cooperativism A weekend with social economies in art and beyond: presentations and lectures of the Centre for Plausible Economies (CPE, Centre for... 24.04.2019 SYMPOSIUM Avantgarde Decentered: (Semi)Peripheries of Capitalism and Universal History When it came to analysing social and economic development on the global scale, much of 20th century social science was dominated... 24.04.2019 East European – North African – Middle East Forum Due to the fact that Polish foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa is virtually non-existent, or it takes... 24.04.2019 Pioneers of global solidarity. What the alliance of the People's Republic of Poland and MENA... Similarly to other post-socialist countries, from the 1960s until its political transformation, Poland maintained permanent and close... 24.04.2019 Compost A fresh, punk project, using electro-rap to perversely analyse political and emotional processes. The authors create an engaged... 24.04.2019 Presentation of the research project of Biennale Warszawa and the Academy of Fine Arts Mapping multicultural Warsaw In 2018, researchers working for Biennale Warszawa under the direction of Katarzyna Wojnar PhD from EUROREG UW prepared an interactive map... 24.04.2019 What is Democracy?Oliver Ressler “What is democracy?” is not one question, but is actually two questions. On the one hand, the question relates to conditions of the... 24.04.2019 Exhibition of foreign artists living in PolandJanek Simon The exhibition features work by over a dozen foreign artists who live and work Poland. Members of this group have practically no... 24.04.2019 Forgotten InternationalismFilmmakers of the World, Unite!Tereza Stejskalova The theme of the evening is temporary residence of students from the “Third World” in Czechoslovakia and the attendant cultural exchange... 24.04.2019 Lecture by Susan Buck-Morss Revolution TodaySusan Buck-Morss The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of... 24.04.2019 FILM SCREENING Who is afraid of ideology?Marwa Arsanios Who is afraid of ideology? 2017, part I, 23 min Shot in the mountains of Kurdistan in the early 2017, primarily focuses on the Autonomous... 24.04.2019 Bartek Frąckowiak & Max Cegielski The suits that we have in our country are not suitable for the tropical climate This performative lecture juxtaposes two narratives based on the studies which Biennale Warszawa is carrying out within the long-term... 24.04.2019 Taking over the stage. A polyphonic manifesto for the futureZorka Wollny i Chór Polin The social choir for/of the future involves creating an experimental manifesto prepared by a collective choir of amateurs and... 24.04.2019 SYMPOSIUM The Missing Denominator – Universalism and Progressive Cultural Politics Universalism seems to be one of the most ambivalent and contradictory, yet also valuable elements of European cultural legacy. On the... 24.04.2019 Polish Social Forum The idea of the Polish Social Forum responds to the need to organise the future, i.e. looking for realistic alternatives in the... 08.04.2019 Book discussion Didier Eribon”Returning to Reims” Karakter publishing house and Biennale Warszawa would like to invite you to a discussion about Didier Eribon’s book... 13.03.2019 Lecture by Karolina Sobecka Design for the human planet The description of Anthropocene tells of people having the agency to change the world, but our abilities to do so being far from... 06.02.2019 Discussion panel: Michał Bachowski, Agata Kiedrowicz, Maciej Siuda. Moderator: Bogna Świątkowska Empathetic design One of the ideas featured in the project RePrezentacje. New Education is the ethics of care and the empathy that goes with it, which became... 06.02.2019 A two-voice lecture and discussion with the audience. Maria Mendel and Tomasz Szkudlarek Education and politics. Why is this relationship an urgent task in Poland? The opposition against the “politicization of education” is quite typical for the atmosphere of debates on the state of education,... 17.01.2019 A City Curating Reader. Public Art Munich 2018 City architects, city curators? Presentation and discussion Udział wezmą: Agata Siwiak, Joanna Warsza, Aleksandra Wasilkowska Moderation: Jan Sowa In 2018 Joanna Warsza was acting as a curator... 09.01.2019 The programme summary and book publication Disability and Society. The Performative Power of Protest Disability and Society. The Performative Power of Protest – the newest offering born from the cooperation between Biennale Warszawa and... 03.01.2019 Biennale International – open discussion panel An open discussion panel accompanying the international meeting of biennale representatives. 03.01.2019 14 i 15 grudnia GlutariaSpektakl i zabawa dla dzieci Termin premiery: 13 stycznia 2019 Czas trwania: 30 minut spektakl + 30 minut zabawy Bez przerwy Spektakl dla dzieci od 3 do 7 roku... 14.12.2018 Lecture by Marina Garcés Humanities in Transition Marina Garcés, Spanish philosopher and essayist, in her books and critical texts (New Radical Enlightenment, Humanitats en... 23.11.2018 Beata Kowalska, Krystian Szadkowski, Andrzej W. Nowak, Tomasz Majewski Another university? In 1995, Bill Readings published his book The University in Ruins – one of the most interesting publications diagnosing the condition of... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Łucja Iwanczewska Across disciplines: art laboratory – performative history / affective history Today’s humanities propose not only new languages for describing the world, or new topics, but they also call into existence new fields... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Jan Sowa Humanities beyond the academia The change whose harbingers we can observe in the contemporary world concerns the formula of education and academia as well. After all,... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Paweł Tomczok Emancipatory humanities project: the spectres of Marx The status of Marxism in Polish culture seems to be particularly spectral, both when it comes to its former, still 19th-century,... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Monika Bakke Posthumanism and what’s next? The project devoted to contemporary humanities would not be complete without examining contemporary tendencies in posthumanism as well... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Michał Kuziak Emancipatory humanities project: colonisations and decolonisations The language of postcolonial criticism distinctly came into being in the Polish journalistic debate (while penetrating the rhetoric of... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Andrzej Leder Alternative histories, histories of the past – how and why invent history?, the status of utopia... We can observe the return of utopia in our thinking; effectively, it would seem, exorcised, compromised and criticised as... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Michał Łuczewski Politics of memory in a globalised world Politics of memory, connected to categories of identity, turns out (not only in Poland and Central Europe) to be a phenomenon... 23.11.2018 Seminar by Monika Rudaś-Grodzka Emancipatory humanities project: gender discourses Gender criticism on the one hand emerged in Poland as the first among the so-called emancipatory criticisms and with some momentum (in its... 23.11.2018 Seminar and lecture by Michał Kuziak Theses about the need for humanities – new humanities We often hear voices claiming that humanities are unnecessary, and particularly – that they’re impractical; humanists are lost on... 08.11.2018 SKIP THE LINE!Guided tour of the exhibitionJoanna Rajkowska 08.11.2018 Jakub Majmurek SKIP THE LINE!Guided tour of the exhibitionJakub Majmurek 08.11.2018 Jan Sowa SKIP THE LINE!Guided tour of the exhibitionJan Sowa 08.11.2018 Marta Przasnek SKIP THE LINE!Guided tour with audio description 08.11.2018 Stanisław Ruksza SKIP THE LINE!Curatorial guided tour of the exhibition Curatorial guided tour in Polish 08.11.2018 Jakub Gawkowski SKIP THE LINE!Curatorial guided tour of the exhibition Curatorial guided tour in English, with the participation of Szabolcs KissPál and Ditte Ejlerskov. 31.10.2018 2018, October 26 – November 30 SKIP THE LINE! Populism and Contemporary Promises SKIP THE LINE! Populism and Contemporary Promise — in a new space of Biennale Warszawa (MA3450) at Marszałkowska Street! 31.10.2018 Fiona Raby Speculative Futures. Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming Lecture by Fiona Raby, co-author of the book "Speculative Everything. Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming". 06.02.2018 Director: Bartek Frąckowiak Modern Slavery The Global Slavery Index report reveals that in 2016 in Poland, there were over 181,000 modern slaves - 0.476% of the Polish population. 06.02.2018 Director: Paweł Wodziński The Global Civil War Before our very eyes the politicisation of violence is happening again.