migration

As part of our partnership with Fundacja Stocznia, we are showing the exhibition Connections at WOK Lab. This exhibition is about connections. About combining art with activism, about creating conditions for collective action, but also about constructing narratives that help bridge different contexts. We believe in the importance of polyphony, but also in the search for common ground.

From January 22nd to February 2nd, 2024, a cohort of 100, professionals, students and teachers from Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and the UK will converge in Warsaw and Lviv with a collective mission to create sustainable solutions addressing Ukraine’s urgent need for a sustainable recovery. Workshop activities will take place daily at the WOK Lab space. The main project partners are Umeå University, Umeå School of Architecture, University of Limerick, and Kharkiv School of Architecture.

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

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.

WOK Lab host the FSH1 platform for Belarusian photographers. On July 12, 2023, a networking meeting was held aimed at people from the Belarusian art community interested in contemporary photography.

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.

The Culture Department of the City of Warsaw, in partnership with the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, are announcing a call for applications for the doctoral Municipal Fellowships Programme. Watch a short video introduction to this year's themes, by Małgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger, our Deputy Director.

The Warsaw Observatory of Culture (WOK) 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.

On 17–28 March, WOK Lab hosted eighteen participants and four mentors for the curatorial and research activities of Territory in/out.

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). The contract between the Capital City of Warsaw and the ICORN network was signed on July 20, 2023 at City Hall.