Cultural Fall-Winter 2015 Season in New York at the Polish Cultural Institute

 In 1966, Kantor co-founded the world-famous avant-garde Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, whose past and present we will celebrate for its 50th anniversary next year. 2015 also marks the 15th anniversary of the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Thanks to the support and cooperation of our Polish and American partners and presenters, we have been able to bring the very best of Polish art and culture here to the United States, and we will continue to do so.

We kick off this season with the latest in our series of lectures on literary figures at the New York Public Library, this time on Kantor. We will also be bringing theater projects by Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz and Komuna//Warszawa to New York. In film, we will present a retrospective of the renowned filmmaker Wojciech Jerzy Has at BAMcinématek, and a showcase of Polish Holocaust films at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. These films were the forerunners of Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year. In history, we will be screening a new documentary on Jan Karski, the Polish Resistance hero who risked his life to bring eyewitness testimony of the Holocaust from Nazi-occupied Poland to the West. We also remember the Polish scientists who played a key role in breaking the Enigma Code during World War II. Finally, in visual arts we feature books on Polish women artists such as Ewa Partum and Teresa Zarnower, whose work we hope to explore more in coming years. And in a new initiative, we have reached beyond North America to support two New York-based Polish visual artists, Joanna Malinowska and CT Jasper, as well as curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, in their presentation of the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. This season offers great opportunities for cultural tourism in Poland, visiting historical museums in the Tri-City area on Poland's Baltic coast, or music festivals such as Cross-Culture and Warsaw Autumn. While there, visitors can enjoy Poland's modernist cuisine and see the latest trends in crafts and design.

Over the next year, we will also work to bring Poland's creative and cultural industries to the US through regular projects such as KINO POLSKA: New Polish Cinema at BAM; BookExpo America in Chicago, where Poland will be the country of honor; and Unsound Festival, featuring new sounds from Poland and around the world. We also continue to foster cultural development and cross-fertilization through our residency programs in the United States and regular research trips to Poland. Finally, to celebrate the Polish city of Wroclaw being named the 2016 European Capital of Culture (jointly with San Sebastian in Spain), we will feature highlights from Wroclaw's Jazztopad festival for Jazz at Lincoln Center next summer.

To keep up with our latest events, visit www.polishculture-nyc.org. You can also subscribe to our regular e-blasts and follows us on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest events as well as news about Polish art and culture.

On a more personal note, this fall I will be leaving the Polish Cultural Institute New York after four years, and we will welcome Agata Grenda and Anna Domanska as our next Director and Deputy Director.

I would like to thank you all for this fruitful time! Our team and I wish you all the best for the coming season, and invite you to join us and our partners in New York, Washington, Venice, and elsewhere.

Bartek Remisko
Acting Director


For our full program, please follow the link below.

www.polishculture-nyc.org