08.11.2026-11.11.2026
Currently
Deeply saddened by the events in Kraków, we share in the grief of the victims and their loved ones. The BWA Gallery will be closed from 8 to 11 November.
Exhibitions
29.04.2026-31.12.2026
Collection
WORKERS OF THE ARTWORLD UNITE! Rafał Jakubowicz
On April 28, we inaugurate an exhibition of a single artwork that will accompany us throughout the entire year, serving as a point of reflection dedicated to potential scenarios for the evolution of art institutions.
28.03.2026-31.12.2026
Exhibitions
Jan Pfeiffer “SUPPORT POINTS”
"Support Points" focuses on the afterlife of signs and symbols (and their systems) that artificially sustain fallen ideas.
03.03.2026-31.12.2026
Exhibitions
“SHOAL” Aleka Polis
“SHOAL” is a series of group, camera-facing choreographic actions whose point of reference is formed by non-hierarchical social constructs – largely disregarded by humans yet functioning successfully in non-human nature.
14.04.2026-31.12.2026
Exhibitions
mariia lemperk ‘PAIN GAME’
The PAIN GAME table frame, collectively transported by the BWA Katowice team, awaits new versions of the pain game in the gallery space.
Events
06.03.2026-31.12.2026
Events
CULTURE DICTIONARY 2.0
Tensions escalate within language—it is language that accumulates and reveals the politics of how we shape the field of art and what positions we occupy within it.
16.02.2026-31.12.2026
Events
New Topographies — Urban Structures and Narrative Spaces
Simone Rueß — artist residency
Calendar of events
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- Simone Rueß “Memory of Space – BWA Katowice” — Residency Outcomes (16.10.2026-31.12.2026)
- Castello Bizzarro Experience (24.10.2026-25.10.2026)
- TRANSLATIONS (03.10.2026-07.10.2026)
- BODIES’ CHOIR voice – body – space — sound-based activities with Joanna Pawlik (25.09.2026-25.09.2026)
- superuser_do – opening, exhibition (30.09.2026-11.10.2026)
- Literary Materials Magazine CEGŁA (16.09.2026-27.09.2026)
- “selfworldbuilding” – exhibition opening, exhibition (18.09.2026-28.10.2026)
- mariia Lemperk (and all persons involved) “Kissing a Rock” (04.08.2026-13.09.2026)
- Hydrosexual Clinic III: An Affair with a Non-River (17.07.2026-18.07.2026)
- COMMON GROUND: A Performative Workshop and Farewell to the Political Critique Community Space (Świetlica Krytyki Politycznej) in Cieszyn (09.07.2026-11.07.2026)
- Rajzefiber 2026 — Hare and Hounds — Graduation Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (04.07.2026-21.07.2026)
- “Laboratory of Coexistence” — A Meeting with Jo Vávra (26.06.2026-26.06.2026)
- FCKING WALKING CANES — 31st duo: mariia Lemperk and Dawid Kowalik (25.06.2026-25.06.2026)
- PAIN GAME: BREAD BAKING — mariia lemperk (21.05.2026-22.05.2026)
- MUSEUM NIGHT (16.05.2026-16.05.2026)
- CULTURE DICTIONARY 2.0: matter–fabric–institution (27.05.2026-27.05.2026)
- Intertwined, Embedded, Subordinated – Institutions as Representations of the State in Conservative Modernity (12.05.2026-12.05.2026)
- WORKERS OF THE ARTWORLD UNITE! Rafał Jakubowicz (29.04.2026-31.12.2026)
- Futurological Congress Seminar: “(Im)Possible Scenarios for Institutions” (24.04.2026-24.04.2026)
- Jan Pfeiffer “SUPPORT POINTS” (28.03.2026-31.12.2026)
- “SHOAL” Aleka Polis (03.03.2026-31.12.2026)
- 29th Polish Poster Biennale Katowice 2025 – exhibition (19.12.2025-15.02.2026)
- Michał Minor ‘Fear’ — exhibition as part of the 34th Ars Cameralis Festival (17.10.2025-07.12.2025)
- MENTAL VACATIONER — Karol Gawroński’s exhibition at the Small Space (18.10.2025-16.11.2025)
- Reflection: A Hole in the Stone — sculpture exhibition of 17 Belgian artists (25.04.2025-08.06.2025)
- The Art of Touch — Izabela Jasińska and Dominik Gocyła in the Small Space (26.04.2025-25.05.2025)
- The Art of Balance: Between Geometry and Variability (07.02.2025-09.03.2025)
- CLOSE – an exhibition by Basia Flores in the Small Space (08.02.2025-09.03.2025)
- IRENA IZABELA IMAŃSKA Light is My Favorite Colour – exhibition in Small Space (19.12.2024-26.01.2025)
- The Power of Monochrome (04.10.2024-17.11.2024)
- PYRAMID OF NEEDS Bartłomiej Chwilczyński’s at Small Space (06.09.2024-22.09.2024)
- Imagine summer — exhibition by Krzysztof Maniak as part of the ‘Sensorium’ project (not only) for children (09.08.2024-01.09.2024)
- The History Lessons (02.09.2024-22.09.2024)
- DIPLOMAS 2024 — The Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice students public defence (17.06.2024-21.06.2024)
- Long Night of Museums 2024 – visit us (18.05.2024-18.05.2024)
- Jean-Pierre Bredo When I Lose Myself in Human Memory (07.05.2024-09.06.2024)
- Grzegorz Frydryk’s exhibition ‘o nieustannej modlitwie’ (About Perpetual Prayer) (18.05.2024-09.06.2024)
- Close-up Views — Relations – Tools – Knowledge (22.03.2024-21.04.2024)
- 28th Polish Poster Biennale Katowice 2023 (15.12.2023-10.03.2024)
- The Words are Fleeting – Michał Smandek, Yannick Vey, XXXII Ars Cameralis Festival (09.11.2023-10.12.2023)
- Paintings and Wall Objects — Jerzy Sojka’s exhibition in Small Space (13.05.2023-25.06.2023)
- Jonasz Stern — exhibition in Small Space (01.04.2023-07.05.2023)
- “Lesser-Silesian Suite 2023” — Joanna Zemanek and Grzegorz Sztwiertnia (31.03.2023-07.05.2023)
- ‘Shifting World Orders’ Katarzyna Kujawska-Murphy in Small Space (25.02.2023-26.03.2023)
- ‘Underground. Subterra incognita’ (18.02.2023-26.03.2023)
- ‘Referential Spaces’ by Mischa Kuball – exhibition as part of the XXXI Ars Cameralis Festival (18.11.2022-29.01.2023)
- ‘Breakdown of the Relationship Between Albatrosses’ – an exhibition of works by Joanna Zdzienicka-Obałek in Small Space (30.09.2022-06.11.2022)
- ‘12/75’ — Photography Exhibition on the Gallery Building’s Facade (27.05.2022-30.09.2022)
- Photographic Amusement from America – Multiple Portraits (09.09.2022-06.11.2022)
- Grzegorz Schmidt’s Collection (29.07.2022-04.09.2022)
- Migrations (25.06.2022-24.07.2022)
- ‘Art Spaces / Przestrzenie sztuki’ — Jarosław Rodycz’s exhibition in Small Space (26.06.2022-24.07.2022)
- ‘Art Spaces / Przestrzenie sztuki’ — Jarosław Rodycz’s exhibition in Small Space (20.05.2022-12.06.2022)
- Interior (12.05.2022-12.06.2022)
- Unidentified Zone (11.03.2022-30.04.2022)
- 27th Polish Poster Biennale (28.12.2021-27.02.2022)
- Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava. Three Decades. (18.11.2021-19.12.2021)
- The Language of Geometry. The Longevity of Art (10.09.2021-07.11.2021)
- Coolection. The BWA collection on display (27.03.2021-02.05.2021)
- The Continuation – exhibition of Mikołaj Szpaczyński’s works in Small Space (12.02.2021-21.03.2021)