Current and announcement
MUSEUM NIGHT
BWA Katowice Museum Night Program:
Guided Tours
5:00–11:00 PM
This year’s Museum Night at BWA Katowice is an opportunity to explore the exhibitions and artistic activities developed since February as part of the “Aesthetic Congress” — a year-long exhibition and performative program focused on rethinking and updating the formula of the art institution. Exhibitions such as “Shoal” by Aleka Polis, “Support Points” by Jan Pfeiffer, and “Workers of the Artworld Unite!” by Rafał Jakubowicz can be explored through guided tours running continuously from 17:00 to 23:00. The BWA Katowice team will also speak about artistic activities whose traces remain visible throughout the exhibition space. Visitors will learn why we write on the walls, what “Pain Game” is, and what conversations take place around the communal table of the “Dictionary of Culture 2.0.”
For Families
5:00 PM — Guided Tour of “Shoal” by Aleka Polis combined with a workshop
“Shoal” is an encounter with Aleka Polis’s exhibition presenting choreographic actions created for the camera. The exhibition focuses on forms of non-hierarchical coexistence inspired by the collaborative behaviors of animals such as fish and birds. At 17:00, a guided tour and collaborative art workshop for families will take place, during which even the youngest participants will have the opportunity to talk about contemporary art.
Meeting
5:30 PM — Meeting with Marian Oslislo
Prof. Marian Oslislo works across a wide range of contemporary visual culture practices (art and design): from graphics, posters, and printed matter to books, album covers, visual identity systems, photography, experimental film, and multimedia projects. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice since 1983. During the meeting, he will speak about the artistic milieu surrounding BWA Katowice in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as independent publications, including “BWART.” Archival and rare copies of the magazine will be available to view during the event.
Mapping the Memory of BWA Katowice
8:00 PM — Guided Tour of the Gallery Building
Tomasz Dąbrowski, a long-time employee of BWA Katowice, will guide visitors through the gallery’s historic building, including spaces not normally accessible to the public. This is an opportunity to discover the backstage workings of the gallery — including the art storage facilities and the building’s original wall structures. The tour will be conducted in the spirit of “memory mapping,” approaching the building as a record of the institution’s history, where layers of labor, exhibitions, and everyday activities overlap. Each space becomes a point on the memory map of BWA, revealing the hidden processes behind the functioning of an art institution. It is a chance to see how an exhibition institution operates “behind the scenes” and how architectural space preserves its own history.
We warmly invite you!