This week I am primarily looking forward to Night of the Museums, which is Saturday, May 17. I like this event - there is always something interesting, some place that opens only this one night. And on top of that, often without crowds.
If you feel like finding something for yourself, it's worth looking locally. I recommend poking around on city and regional websites: Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Gdansk/Sopot/Gdynia (e.g. discoverjpomorze.pl), Lodz, Silesia, Lublin, Torun, Bydgoszcz, Grudziadz.
GDAŃSK
Exhibition collective Hospitality
Curators: Aleksandra Grzonkowska and Maja Murawska - NOMUS-New Museum of Art, Maja Bieńkowska and Małgorzata Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka - Gdańsk Gallery of Photography
Location: Nomus
Date: May 17 (Museum Night) - 29.03.2026
Link: Facebook
LODZ
Exhibition Six things that make a person happy. Dorothy and Louis Bohm
Curator: Adam Mazur
Location: The Tenement House of Hilary Majewski
Deadline: May 15 - June 29, 2025
Link: Facebook
Opening exhibitions of stills from the film Promised Land by Renata Pajchel
Location: Vienna House
Deadline: May 16 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Link: Facebook
Exhibition Portrait of the Creator. Photographs of artists and their works from the collection of the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź
Curated by: Dominika Pawełczyk
Location: Villa Gallery
Deadline: May 15 - June 29, 2025
Link: Facebook
BIAŁYSTOK
Posed, Peeped. Photographs by Wojciech Plewinski
Location: Bialystok Cultural Center
Deadline: May 16 - June 15, 2025
Link: unit.com
Exhibition: MiSie likes
Location: Sleńdzinski Gallery
Curators: Barbara Caillot, Aleksandra Karkowska
Deadline: May 16 to June 29, 2025
Link: Facebook, galeriaslendzinskich.pl
WROCŁAW
Exhibition Plantstoria
Location: Museum of Architecture
Title: Plantstoria
Date: May 15, at 18:00
Link: Facebook
Exhibition Perpetua Hydroza Collective
Location: GUA Collective
Authors: Jagoda Malanin, Iga Mroziak, Kasia Rysiak, Milena Soporowska, Kasia Slesinska
Curator: Agata Grzych
Deadline: May 17-June 18, 2025
Link: Facebook
WRO Media Art Biennale 2025.
Location: various locations, Wroclaw
Title: WRO 2025
Deadline: May 14-27 (main events: 14-18.05)
Link: wro2023.wrocenter.pl, Facebook
Photostories #5 - Tokiwa Toyoko and contemporary Japanese women photographers - lecture.
Location: PHOTO-GEN Gallery
Leading: Aleksandra Szwedo
Link: Facebook
POZNAŃ
Exhibition Betonium
Location: Headquarters.art
Author: Katerina Kouzmitcheva
Curatorial support: Anka Gregorczyk
Deadline: May 17-June 28, 2025
Link: Facebook
Poznan Art Week
Location: various venues, 3 exhibitions at Pop Culture Gallery in Stary Browar
Temin: May 16 - June 1, 2025
Link: Facebook event
Exhibition Crazy decade. Polish photography of the 1970s.
Location: Piekary Gallery
Opening: May 12, 2025
Deadline: until June 20, 2025
Link: Facebook, galeria-piekary.com.pl
BIELSKO-BIAŁA
Exhibition James Dziewit Triangle
Location: Bielsko BWA Gallery, Villa Sixta
Curator: Jessica Kufa
Deadline: April 16 - June 29, 2025
Author's guided tour: May 17, 12:00 pm
Link: Facebook
RYBNIK
Exhibition Justyna Mielnikiewicz In Ukraine
Location: River Art Gallery
Author's guided tour: May 17, at 18:00
Link: Facebook
WARSAW
Place: U-jazdowski
As part of the series {Art from the Perspective...}, the artist Michael Sita will talk about the works in the exhibition My eyes deceive the bees including his photographs from the series Polish history vol.2 Which are part of the exposition.
Date: May 15 at 6:00 p.m.
Link: Facebook
Fort Photography Institute Reading Room
Meeting "From design to book" with photo book will go in and out, and find
Guest speakers: Marta Kiela-Czarnik (author of the book) and Monika Szewczyk-Wittek (host)
Date: May 15, 7:00 pm
Link: Facebook
Museum of Warsaw's Praga
Meeting with Paul Starc - Snapshots/Inspirations, exhibition KNOWN.
Date: May 15, 6-7:30 pm
Link: Facebook
Alina Foundation
Alina Szapocznikow Presence/Presence
Opening: May 16, at 18:00
Deadline: May 17 - August 3, 2025
Link: Facebook
Fotoruletka with Karolina Wojtas - MDAG x Fotofestiwal workshop
Date: May 17, 2:00 pm
Location: State Ethnographic Museum
Link: Facebook, MDAG
Michal Szlaga Shipyard. Document of loss
The exhibition runs until May 18, 2025
Location: Old ZPAF Gallery
Link: Facebook
Edward Dwurnik: Portrait from Nature
Location: Edward Dwurnik Foundation
Deadline: Until May 17 (Finissage 17.05, 17:00-22:00)
Link: Facebook
Gallery Night at ZPAF
Location: Old Gallery and Gallery Next to ZPAF
Date: May 17, 2025 from 6:00 pm to 1:00 am
Link: Facebook
LOOKALIKE Katarzyna Kozyra Sebastian Winkler
Location: Whoispola
Date: May 17 at 18:00
Link: Facebook
UK - London
Photolondon 2025
Location: Somerset House, London
Deadline: May 15-18, 2025
Link: photolondon.org
FRANCE - Nancy
L'Événement Photographique
Deadline: until May 18, 2025
Link: evenement-photographique.fr
