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.
Lifery: an exhibition-situation
Lifery is a unique place on the map of the country, where art is meant to serve as a respite. The twelve-month exhibition-situation which inaugurates the venue is conceived as a living organism that follows its own internal rhythms of regeneration and decay, aligned with the cycles of nature. The winter round of the year-long Lifery events showcases more than 20 artists, […]
City Scene: Wrocław’s Independent Culture of the 1990s
Lech Janerka, Kaman, Kormorany. Luxus. Entropia and Lśnienie. Figures, bands, and places that continue to fascinate and inspire. Dozens of photographs and films, alongside zines, posters, and flyers. Archival materials, many never before exhibited. On March 6, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., the exhibition City Scene: Wrocław’s Independent Culture of the 1990s opens at Studio BWA Wrocław. A story of a Wrocław […]
Where the Light Won’t Reach
Where the Light Won’t Reach is a solo exhibition of works by interdisciplinary artist Lulu MacDonald. It tells a tale of growing in darkness, beyond the reach of sight, on thresholds of control and visibility. The wellspring for the exhibition was the Rhubarb Triangle, an area in West Yorkshire where rhubarb is grown in absolute darkness and later harvested by candlelight. Lulu MacDonald The work of […]
Dark Paradise: Inner Tales
Dark Paradise is a tale woven around monstrosity — an ambiguous and multivalent category. BWA Wrocław Main Gallery is transformed into a shadowed garden, an entanglement of wonder and dread inviting visitors to traverse its uncanny recesses, along the way marveling at form and confronting revulsion. The curators of the upcoming exhibition at BWA Wrocław Main Gallery — Magdalena Lazar and Katarzyna Oczkowska — conceive of it as a contemporary dark fairy tale. Dark Paradise: Inner Tales focuses on the body and its […]
The Lifery: Spring Season
The Lifery—an exhibition-situation conceived by Katarzyna Roj and inaugurated at BWA Wrocław in January of this year—is now entering its spring season. Prepared by photographer and documentary filmmaker Karol Pałka, the spring season will symbolically transport us to Rabka-Zdrój. This will not, however, be a sentimental journey, but a path guided by reflections on the dual nature of the sanatorium. The inauguration of the spring […]
City Scene: Wrocław’s Independent Culture of the 1990s – curatorial tour
A curatorial tour through the exhibition City Scene: Wrocław’s Independent Culture of the 1990s will provide an opportunity to examine it from various perspectives: a factual one, which organises the phenomena of Wrocław’s 1990s music underground, and a social one, which – beyond the bands and clubs – looks at the people who brought it together, as well as the processes of documenting […]
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