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Anna Galas-Kosil

Deputy Director

anna.galas@wok.art.pl

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I am a curator and cultural manager, currently associated with the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, an Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy graduate, and a holder of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management. From 2011 to 2017, I managed the Department of International Cooperation at the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, where I implemented many international projects, including the Polish presentation at the Prague Quadrennial, Polish Theatre Days in Tehran, and the international programme Polska New Theatre. From 2015 to 2020, I was the President of the On the Move international network, and from 2018 to 2022, I curated international projects at Biennale Warszawa. I collaborated on projects with artists such as Marta Górnicka, Marwa Arsanios, Dima Levytski, Jonas Staal, and Paweł Wodziński. In 2021, I curated the Edible City Warsaw project devoted to food models alternative to the currently dominant industrial, agricultural model. In 2022 I curated the Common Spaces. Educational Migrations in the Context of the Cold War exhibition. I co-curated the 1st and 2nd editions of the Biennale Warszawa Let’s Organize Our Future (2019) events and Seeing Stones and Spaces Beyond the Valley (2022).

I am interested in international interdisciplinary projects and in processes where art and culture form an essential part of the dynamically changing societies of the future.

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WOK at the General Assembly of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) in Copenhagen

In May 2024, the General Assembly of the ICORN network took place in Copenhagen. The Warsaw Observatory of Culture was represented by Anna Galas-Kosil and Aleksandra Wiechowska.

WOK at the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research

This year’s edition of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR) will take place at the University of Warsaw from 19–23 August. Anna Galas-Kosil, Deputy Director of the Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK), will lead a dedicated panel discussion on how cultural policies can support artists with migration experience.

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Study on the Situation of Artists and Artist-Parents of Children Aged 0–6 in the Creative Labor Market

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK) is launching a research project dedicated to the situation of parents working in creative professions. We are witnessing a paradigm shift for mother/father/parent-artistic individuals—from the historical exclusion of combining a career in the arts with caregiving responsibilities to an increasingly common need to function in both realms and to fulfil the role of practising artist on an equal footing with the role of a parent.

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Announcing the results of the call for applications for Co-thinking artistic research process and networking meetings

We received 114 applications. The applicants define the field of artistic research in diverse ways, situating it within a broad spectrum of institutional and non-institutional practices and subjecting them to critical analysis. Reading the applications has already given us the opportunity to explore this field. The large number and high quality of the submissions show how necessary reflection on artistic research is in Poland and how many people wish to pursue this path in their practice.

Co-thinking: open call for the process of artistic research and networking

WOK at the Women in Arts International Conference in Brno

This year, the second edition of the Women in Arts conference was organised in Brno, Czechia by the CO.LABS independent space. The key theme of this edition was Motherhood/Parenthood. WOK was represented by Anna Galas-Kosil.

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The Warsaw Observatory of Culture at the Cultural Mobility Forum 2024 in Caernafron

At the end of 2023, the Warsaw Observatory of Culture became a member of the international information network supporting artistic and cultural mobility. Today, the network consists of 69 members from 23 countries. Its main objective is to support various stakeholders in the field of culture and arts and to promote mobility as a universal value of professional development.

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Co-thinking: open call for the process of artistic research and networking

In Poland, artistic research has been developing for years on the margins of art and science institutions. Although these ephemeral practices are an inexhaustible source of new cognitive strategies, they have not yet found their own place in the cultural field. Their creators lack funding and institutional support, and their work has not received much critical or scholarly commentary that could help deepen our understanding of these practices.

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Announcement of the Results of Stage Two Recruitment

After discussions with individuals qualified for the second stage, the commission composed of Justyna Czarnota, Anna Galas-Kosil, Michał Krawczak, and Joanna Synowiec invites the following individuals to participate in the WOK Residencies program:

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. Second Edition / 2024

Announcement of the Results of Stage One Recruitment

The Committee consisting of Justyna Czarnota-Misztal, Anna Galas-Kosil, Michał Krawczak, and Joanna Synowiec would like to thank all the applicants for the submitted aplications and materials. The process of reading and familiarising ourselves with them was demanding but it also made us aware of the diverse needs for support within the artistic and research community.

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. Second Edition / 2024

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. Second Edition / 2024

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture is inviting applications for the second edition of its residency programme, which aims to enable reflection and self-development as well as creative and research work. The idea of slowing down the pace and creating comfortable yet flexible conditions for development seems brave and significant in today's world, where there is often a demand for rapid creation and delivery of completed works.

Artist Mothers: Home residency and tutoring programme

How to avoid the exclusion of mothers and carers working in the arts and how to support their professional development?

How to avoid the exclusion of mothers and carers working in the arts and how to support their professional development?

The paradigm of the artist-mother (and other parents) is changing from one that has historically excluded combining a career in the art world with caring responsibilities, to the increasingly common need to function in both worlds and to fulfil the role of a practising artist on an equal footing with that of a parent.

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Summary of the 1st edition of WOK Residencies

CONVERSATION: On friendship and Warsaw. Interview with Oksana Kolisnyk

What are the interests of young refugees in Warsaw? How can we reach them? These are some of the questions that we at the Warsaw Observatory of Culture have been asking for some time, and then Oksana Kolisnyk, a student of Social Arts at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, approached us with a request to organise workshops in our WOK.lab.

On the WOK.radar

A conference on the creation of an independent Belarusian Institute of Theatre

On 7–9 September, a conference on the creation of the Belarusian Institute of Theatre (BIT) was held at WOK.

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“Nothing about us without us”. Summary of the Culture. Migrations. Institutional Strategies meeting

How can immigrant artistic communities be integrated into the structure of Warsaw's cultural institutions? Can art be used as a tool for integration? This is a summary of a series of presentations held as part of the Future of Culture Forum 2022. The event was organised by the Powszechny Theatre in cooperation with the Warsaw Observatory of Culture.

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Dance. Research the working conditions

At WOK, Marta Seredyńska is researching the working conditions of freelancers working in the field of contemporary and conceptual dance.

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We are too young for this sh*t. Ukrainian youth on life, friendship and refugeeship

From 28 to 30 July, the WOK Lab was handed over to Ukrainian youth, who, under the supervision of Oksana Kolisnyk, a student of Social Arts at the University of Warsaw, who is the author of the exhibition and invites everyone to take part in the upcoming programme.

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Sara Tokina’s residency at WOK

Warsaw Observatory of Culture takes part in an artistic residency programme for creators from Belarus and Ukraine, organised by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute. As a host institution we provide care and support, we try to include the Resident in our networks and partnerships, as well as in the rhythm of the institution's daily work by giving her a chance to get to know how a public cultural institution in Poland functions.

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React! Open network of culture organisers

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture is one of the members of the React! network of culture organisers.

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We would like to thank all the shortlisted participants for the inspiring conversations. During the interviews, our aim was to understand the needs of the applicants as best as possible and to determine the conditions necessary to support them in their exploration processes.

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. First Edition / 2023

The Committee, composed of Szymon Adamczak, Małgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger, Anna Galas-Kosil, and Magdalena Komornicka, would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions and materials. The reading and evaluation process was crucial and inspiring for us.

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. First Edition / 2023

Artistic-Research Residency Programme. First Edition / 2023

Process-ing Change. An Artistic and Research Accompaniment

Warsaw became one of over 70 cities globally that offer refuge to artists and activists. The Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK) was appointed the coordinating institution of residencies executed as part of the ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network).

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