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PHOTOGRAPHY Weekly: May 5-11, 2025

In a new installment of PHOTOGRAPHY Weekly, we recommend events that are not only worth seeing, but also worth attending - live, in galleries, on the streets and in theaters.

Below is our subjective selection for the week of May 5-11:

Millennium Docs Against Gravity (MDAG) - 22nd edition.

Launch: May 9, 2025
? Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Łódź
And online: May 20 - June 2 at mdag.pl

This year's edition of MDAG kicks off with new section: Photography! Among other things, it includes a unique exhibition and the premiere of a film about the legendary photographer Ernest Cole. But check out for yourself what interests you most on the mdag.pl

May 8, at 18:30 - Warsaw

Film screening: "Ernest Cole: Finding a Legend" (dir. Raoul Peck)
? Kinoteka
? Meeting under the patronage of Filmweb portal.
Facebook event

May 10 - Warsaw

The Yoga of Sight: An introduction to conscious vision
MDAG and Fotofestiwal at MSN
Facebook event

WARSAW

  • From May 8, Ethnographic Museum
    Exhibition "Ernest Cole: photographer in exile". - until August 31, 2025
    More information (under MDAG)
New York City, USA, Circa 1971. © Ernest Cole _ Magnum Photos

  • May 8, 6:00 pm, History Meeting House
    Exhibition opening All Inclusive. Lieutenant Anders' Odyssey 1939-1947
    Facebook event
  • May 8 at the Institute of Industrial Design a curatorial tour of the exhibition will be held Idea. Form. Function. Design and Industry in Poland 1888-1939 As well as a film screening. At 17:00 The curator of the exhibition - Michal Lukasik - will introduce us to the history of Polish design, which took shape even before the establishment of the Institute of Industrial Design. He will also present reproductions of projects by famous architects and designers, photographs and exhibits. At 18:00 There will be a film screening of the documentary "Let's Feed Ourselves. History of Polish Design" by Małgorzata Olimpia Świderska, which will be preceded by a short lecture by Rafał Tarnarzewski.
  • May 8, 7:00 pm, Fort Photography Institute
    Photo book meeting Six vases - Guest: Joanna Szpak-Ostachowska and Olga Łacna
    Facebook event
  • May 8, 6:00 pm, Eastern Studio
    Iga Mroziak exhibition opening Ex
    Facebook event
Iga Mroziak from the project EX

  • As of May 9, the Unit
    Exhibition Vibrations and afterimages - Rafal Siderski, Katarzyna Lebda
    Facebook event
  • Until May 15, Gallery on Smolna Street
    Exhibition by Darek Kanak City. District. Estate
    Facebook event
  • The exhibition is underway:Haruhisa Camera Collectiveat Poleczki.art
    Facebook event

WROCŁAW

  • May 8, 6:00 pm, Foto-gen
    Author's guided tour of the exhibition All those Paradises, Comets and Polons (Lech Molinski and Jerzy Wypych)
    Facebook event
Photo: Jerzy Wypych

 LODZ

  • May 6, 6:00 pm, Art Propaganda Center
    Exhibition opening Home for culture Nicolas Grospierre
  • May 7, 4:00 pm
    Author's guided tour of the exhibition
    More information
Nicolas Grospierre, from the exhibition Home for culture

POZNAŃ

  • May 8, 5:00 pm, CK Zamek
    Guided tour of the exhibition by Weronika Gesicka Urticaria, and at 6:30 p.m. - a meeting at WUBPiCAK
    More information
  • May 8-10 Image Festival 2025
    ? Organizer: Department of Image and Interdisciplinary Activities, UAP
    A new look at painting and painting in multiple media - exhibitions, lectures, art activities, concerts and a gala competition New Image / New Look. Meetings with young male and female artists from all over Poland.
    ? Exhibitions in Stary Browar, UAP Atrium, Much Art Gallery, Kraska Gallery, Pyramida Gallery, among others.
    ? May 9, 4:00 pm - Exhibition opening From cinnabar to CMYK (University of Economics, Building D)
    ? Festival website
  • May 9, 6:00 pm, Gallery Zero 3
    Exhibition opening Conceptual Gestures - works from the collection of Robakowski and Smolarek
  • May 9-11 MOMENT Festival

    ? Details: zpafpoznan.pl/2025momentnapicie

LUBLIN

  • May 9, 6:00 pm, Pomost Gallery
    Opening of Jadwiga Janowska's exhibition Heroes of the nation - until the end of May
    Facebook event
Jadwiga Janowska, from the series: Heroes of the nation

May 10, Labyrinth Gallery
Opening of Marta Zgierska's exhibition Idling
Facebook event

 TORONTO

May 9, 7:00 pm, CCA Torun
Exhibition opening reMeMber about Mac Miller - until September 7
WRB DJ set at the opening
More information

MIECHOW

May 10, 7:00 pm, Transverse Gallery
Solid Maze - book launch and exhibition Piotr Zbierski
Facebook event
? About the project Solid Maze we wrote in the last issue of "Fotografia Quarterly" - you will find there the text, photos from the series and the photographs from this series on our fourth cover.
See Issue 48 of KF

Piotr Zbierski, from the project Solid Maze

PRZEMYSL

Monika Cichoszewska, from the project Immersion

EVENTS OUTSIDE POLAND

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