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.

We are interested in change understood multi-dimensionally: as a research and artistic topic, and as a reality where each of us lives; as inspiration, anxiety, threat, and potential; as an accumulation of rapid turning points;and as a long-term process.

Residencies

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture runs an artistic-research residency programme. Every year, in early spring, we announce a new thematic edition and format of the few-month-long WOK Residencies.

Cultural Education

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, we know education and culture have a prominent role. In the ever-changing reality, given the new challenges and global and local crises that keep cropping up, we need tools to develop soft social skills and artistic tools, much needed to establish and maintain relationships. This is the rationale for our involvement in studying cultural education in Warsaw, and we made it one of our core programming priorities.

Municipal Fellowships 2023/2024— the three research areas under the guidance of WOK

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture is a contributing partner of the fifth edition of the Municipal Fellowship programme. The aim of the programme is to deepen our understanding of the processes and challenges facing a changing Warsaw and its residents, and to use this knowledge to shape urban policy. The programme extends its support to doctoral students hailing from various regions across Poland.

At the invitation of the Museum of Warsaw, the WOK project team developed and executed a pilot evaluation process of the production of the Museum's temporary exhibitions.

We would be happy to share our expertise in designing and developing evaluation tools and processes with other institutions and organisations; if interested, please contact us.

More about: At the invitation of the Museum of Warsaw, the WOK project team developed and executed a pilot evaluation process of the production of the Museum's temporary exhibitions.