BWA Wrocław
Four galleries of contemporary art in the very centre of Wrocław, connected by a program and an idea. We present art and design in their new, sometimes surprising, manifestations. BWA Wrocław exhibitions, events and publications often take the form of socially engaged art. Our galleries and Żyjnia – a city health resort in Świdnicka Street – function as the so-called third place. One may visit them regardless of the events taking place, bring a dog, relax and have some drinking water. It feels like home with us.
Expedition to the 17th Meridian
Expedition to the 17th Meridian encompasses the next stage of work on the new headquarters of BWA Wrocław Galleries of Contemporary Art, currently envisioned for Kolejowa Street. Come the middle of October, SIC! gallery will be transformed into an art research studio with a focus on the materials being used in the headquarter’s interior, and a space for presenting the results of […]
Disobedient Stars
“Biddable, domesticated stars” is the phrase once used by the Scottish novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson to describe the gas lamps illuminating nineteenth-century London. The notion of a night-time that has been tamed, as expressed in Stevenson’s formulation, encapsulated the modern era’s vision of progress, at the forefront of which was an avowed conquest of nature and efforts to bend […]
Atlas of Tangled Tales
The exhibition Atlas of Tangled Tales, presented within the WroPRIDE Wrocław Pride Festival 2025, brings together time-spanning and border-crossing threads of queer historiography in one space. Artists Irène Mélix and Liliana Zeic shed light on public and private archives as they seek to retell the stories of those who were oppressed. They interweave narratives relating to the shared history of […]
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