The first stage of the Three Seas Arts Festival 2025 has come to an end, leaving behind a rich trace of creative activities and intercultural encounters.
From 9 to 24 February, as part of a simultaneous artistic residency, Krakow became a space for an intensive exchange of ideas and experiences for artists and curators from 14 countries of the Three Seas Initiative and the entire region.
Wszystkich uczestników rezydencji poznacie tutaj – w naszym cyklu prezentacji zespołowych.
You can meet all the participants of the residency here – in our series of team presentations.
The residency was a time full of inspiring conversations, joint explorations, and work in places that shape Kraków’s contemporary art scene on a daily basis – galleries, studios, and artistic institutions. The participating artists had the opportunity to confront their ideas with the local environment, which was reflected in the projects they developed. The works created during the residency combine sensitivity to this year’s festival theme, each artist’s individual approach to art, and the influences resulting from meetings and new experiences.
One of the key events was the workshop „Creative Laboratories: Middle Grounds and Derivatives”, led by a curatorial-artistic team from the Czech Republic. The workshop explored various ways of defining art-based research and art created using methodologies, techniques, and technologies from different fields of contemporary science. It also provided an opportunity to evaluate the ideas developed by the international teams involved in the project.
What else awaits us as part of the Three Seas Arts Festival?
From April 25, the international design exhibition „Designed Communities – Between Reality and Vision”, inspired by Benedict Anderson’s concept of „imagined communities”, will be on display at the Podbrzezie Gallery. That same day, the „Fragile Images” exhibition will begin at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków. On April 26, the international visual arts exhibition „Shifted Horizons” will open at the Potocki Palace Gallery linking our festival with the program of this year’s Krakow Art Week Krakers. In addition, the festival will be accompanied by the „BWA-Europa” project containing conferences, workshops and numerous events in 22 city galleries throughout Poland! However, the highlight of the festival will be the main exhibition, presenting the results of the residency teams’ work. Its opening is scheduled for May 14 at the Bunkier Sztuki – Gallery of Contemporary Art.
We warmly invite you to continue following the Three Seas Arts Festival – as you can see, many extraordinary artistic encounters still lie ahead!
The full festival program is available here.
