Warsaw
Observatory
of Culture

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture we aim to explore the processes of contemporary culture and share our findings with the wider community. We believe that connecting art and artists with scholarship affords us a better understanding of the world and the tools to engage with and contribute to the future.

Announcement: Results of Stage One Recruitment for the 3rd Edition of the WOK Residency

The Committee, composed of Anna Bieliz, Prot Jarnuszkiewicz, Łucja Krzyżanowska, Paweł Sztarbowski, and Maryna Tomaszewska, would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions. WOK presented us with the important andchallenging task of selecting just a few of the many amazing ideas. We were deeply moved by the sincerity and seriousness of your applications.

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Facilitation of Co-Thinking: Self-Examination and Creating Alliances

The first meetings of the ‘Co-thinking’ project, which were networking sessions for people involved in artistic research, paved the way for self-examination and self-organisation activities, which we intend to develop as an informal group. This text is, therefore, not a summary of a completed project but an account of an ongoing process. It is also a snippet of a heterogeneous, polyphonic archive of cooperation and a preview of our future activities.

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PODCAST: How artists and researchers availed themselves of the WOK 2024 residencies

In December 2024, we completed the second edition of the WOK residency, conducted in line with the motto ‘Break or Breakthrough’. During this residency, we supported the individual creative processes of 13 people (five of whom formed two collectives). We now give them the floor to talk about their experience.

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The museum is ours. A conversation with Joanna Mytkowska

Will the new model for a cultural institution be an outlet in a state of constant formation, uninterrupted transformation and repurposing? How do you manage a museum that is constantly migrating, under construction, shrinking and expanding its space? Joanna Mytkowska, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw talks about managing an elusive structure.

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