The new recurring Three Seas Art Festival is about to begin and will take place in a biennial format. Nearly 100 artists and curators from 14 countries of the Three Seas Initiative and the entire region will participate in the events, which will feature exhibitions, discussion panels, a variety of workshops, and meetings.

The starting point of the Festival will be a simultaneous artistic residency, bringing to Kraków artistic duos, curators, and curatorial teams from Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Turkey, as well as a team representing Belarusian civil society. Working together using art-based research methods, the participants will reflect on various models of fair development.

The residency teams’ work will be on view from May 2025 at the main exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków. Additionally, the virtual version of the exhibition will ensure accessibility for the societies of the Three Seas countries, engaging an international audience in an art-inspired dialogue about the most pressing contemporary issues.

The Three Seas Art Festival supports the priorities of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council. The event aims to build international understanding and social support for increasing the capacity for collective defense, protecting people and borders, counteracting disinformation, freedom of economic activity, sustainable energy transformation, forward-looking and independent food production and adequate social security, including health security.

Programme 2025

February 9-24
Residency of artistic and curatorial duets at the Institute of Art and Design and the Institute of Painting and Art Education, Faculty of Art UKEN in Krakow.

February 20
Creative Laboratories: Middle Grounds and Derivatives
Participatory workshop on new media art, intermedia collaboration and artistic research organized on the platform of the HegeLabs.
speakers: Anna Olszewska, Jiří Suchánek (Svitava Lab), Pavla Beranová
moderated by: Barbora Kundračíková
The workshop will take place on: February 20, 2025, between 10 am – 1 pm at the: AGH University of Science and Technology. Stanisław Staszica in Krakow, Faculty of Humanities, Czarnowiejska 36 – building C7, room no. 15

April 25 – June 8
Designed Communities – Between Reality and Vision
Podbrzezie Gallery, ul. Podbrzezie 3, KrakowInternational design exhibition accompanied by poster exhibitions in urban spaces: „Tolerance Poster Show” 13/04–26/04/2025 and „Poster Challenge 6” 27/04–11/05/2025.The exhibition is also part of the main program of this year’s edition of Krakow Art Week Krakers.

April 25 – June 30
Kruche obraz / Fragile images – international exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow
MEK, ul. Krakowska 46, Krakow

April 26 – May 15
Shifted Horizons” – international exhibition of visual arts around the idea of multidimensionally understood „Crossing spaces”
Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20, Krakow
The exhibition is also part of the main program of this year’s edition of Krakow Art Week Krakers.

May 14 – August 31
Revealing what is partly sensed / Ujawniając to, co ledwie przeczuwane
The main exhibition of the festival presenting the effects of the work of artists participating in the residency
Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, pl. Szczepański 3a, Krakow

May 15
International conference at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow, including a panel discussion „Common development – 25 years of the Visegrad Fund”
ICC, Rynek Główny 25, Krakow

May 16 
Szpagetowa dzikość – performance by Erik Sikora
Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Nadwiślańska 2/4, Kraków

July 16
Opening of the exhibition „Kantor. Therapies of Visions”
Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Nadwiślańska 2/4, Kraków