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)
- 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
- 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
- May 8, 6 pm, GUA Collective
Exhibition finissage So says
Facebook event
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
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
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
PRZEMYSL
- Monica Cichoszewska's exhibition is underway Dips - Small Gallery of Photography, until May 30
More information
Kwartalnik Fotografia
EVENTS OUTSIDE POLAND
- France - L'Événement Photographique
Photo event underway L'Événement Photographique - pending May 18, 2025.
Official website of the event - Italy, Turin - EXPOSED 2025 Festival - until June 2, 2025 ?More information
