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2024

Repeat after Me II

Repeat after Me II is an audiovisual video installation created by the Ukrainian Open Group collective. The group’s work is based on exploring interaction between people...

2019

Flight

Roman Stańczak

Flight, a sculpture by Roman Stańczak, will be presented at the Polish Pavilion during the 58th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. Visitors will...

2015

Halka/Haiti 18°48’05″N 72°23’01″ W

C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska

The Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale has the pleasure of presenting a panoramic film projection of the opera Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko, as it...

2011

… and Europe will be stunned

Yael Bartana

The exhibition … and Europe will be stunned will be the official Polish participation at the 54th Biennale of Art in Venice in 2011. This video...

2007

1:1

Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska studies architecture from the point of view of its failures, she is interested in places encumbered with error, knocked out of functionality, in absurd...

2003

Alea Iacta Est

Stanisław Dróżdż

Stanisław Dróżdż was one of several international artists invited to participate in the Kunst im der neuen Messe project coinciding with the 1997 Leipzig book fair...

1999

The Men’s Bathhouse

Katarzyna Kozyra

Special Mention
“I am Another” could well be the motto of the most interesting Polish woman artist of the younger generation. Her art challenges monolithic, all-encompassing visions of...

1995

OPAŁKA 1965/1-∞

Roman Opałka

Roman Opałka made his artistic debut in the 1960s – during the late Duchamp period, when he only appeared to be interested in the game of...

1990

Józef Szajna

A number of theoreticians have already tried to define Józef Szajna: is he a painter, playwrighter, sculptor, graphic or may be an architect of real, stage...

1986

42nd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 42nd Biennale was Arte e scienza (Art and Science).

1982

40th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 40th Biennale was Arte come Arte (Art as Art).

1978

38th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

In 1978 Poland did not participate in the 38th Biennale, which theme was Dalla natura all’arte – dall’arte alla natura (From nature to art – from...

1972

36th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 36th Biennale was Opera o comportamento (Work and Behaviour).

1968

34th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1964

32nd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1960

30th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1956

28th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1952

26th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1948

24th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1940

22nd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

In 1940 Poland did not participate in the 22nd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia because of II World War.
 

1936

20th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1932

18th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

2022

Re-enchanting the World

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

  For the first time in the over-120-year history of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, a Roma artist is representing a national...

2017

Little Review

Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles and Poland. Lockhart works with communities to make films and photographs that...

2013

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

Konrad Smoleński

The two hand-made bronze bells which form the core of Konrad Smoleński’s installation at the Polish Pavilion successfully convey a somewhat crude and “primitive” character of...

2009

Guests

Krzysztof Wodiczko

The protagonists of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s projection in the Polish Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice are immigrants, people who, not being ‘at home’,...

2005

Repetition

Artur Żmijewski

The main feature of the Polish Pavilion at the 51st International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia was the presentation of a new film by...

2001

To Paint

Leon Tarasewicz

Leon Tarasewicz’s oeuvre defies description and analysis. Words and language are inadequate when it comes to rendering the alien world of painting whose subject is painting,...

1997

Symbolic Weapon IV

Zofia Kulik

The decision to show Zofia Kulik’s work in the Polish Pavilion at the 47 International Biennale of the Visual Arts in Venice is a function of...

1993

37,1 (cont.)

Mirosław Bałka

Galleries are intended for art as hospitals are intended for disease. Approaching them, we are aware of their distinct and special status. Simultaneously, we are accom­panied...

1988

43rd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 43rd Biennale was Il luogo degli artisti (The Place of the Artist).

1984

41st International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 41st Biennale was Arte allo specchio (Art in the Mirror).

1980

Magdalena Abakanowicz

It has always been a characteristic feature of the creative activity of Magdalena Abakanowicz to go beyond the traditional divisions of art in general. To the...

1976

37th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

General theme of the 37th Biennale was Ambiente/Arte (Environment / Art).

1970

35th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1966

33rd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1962

31st International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1958

29th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1954

27th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1950

25th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

In 1950 Poland did not participate in the 25th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia.

1942

23rd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

In 1942 Poland did not participate in the 23rd International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia because of II World War.

1938

21st International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia

1934

19th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia