words by Weronika Murek Who is Kaspar Hauser? Depends on who asks. Some say he was a mysterious young man appeared nearby Nuremberg in Germany, claiming to have been raised in a total isolation from human beings. He could barely speak or walk. He is said to carry a...
Words by Weronika Murek I As humans used to say: once upon a time, in the city of Filipona it was not allowed to carry colts so all the inhabitants of Filipona carried only empty holsters. But there is more to it. As humans used to start: once upon a time in the city...
St. Peter's Basilica with the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums, the Trevi Fountain, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Campo de' Fiori, Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square) and Piazza del Popolo... Rome, well known from guidebooks and books on art history. Rome,...
My first trip to London was rather unexpected. Although I travelled on business, the very first hours in the city made me fall in love with it… When a few months later I was about to return to London to “savour” the place I was afraid that that “first love” would not...
My most vivid culinary memory from my first trip to Georgia is the lightness of fresh bread in various types and flavours. Crispy, quite thin, with an aromatic crust (which varies depending on the wood used to heat the oven) that can be easily broken with your...
Friday. Bruges is one of the most visited cities in Belgium – this first sentence from the guidebook should have immediately alarmed me, but the narrow, winding streets running between picturesque canals had charmed us a few months earlier while watching Martin...
Words by Weronika Murek for ARTeria Foundation Photos by Volodymyr Pavelko Montpellier has no coastline, although it gives the impression of a city that leans towards the sea, in much the same way that Barcelona and Marseille orient themselves. Apart from this...
words by Iwa Kruczkowska-Król I am an artist who likes to work with people. For a musician, dancer or actor, this is obvious. However, for a visual artist - a painter - it is not so clear. Looking at us from the side-lines, it seems we are regulars in salons and...
text: Katarzyna Szota-Eksner An evening in a small town in southern Poland. We are organising an event to which we have invited young people. There will be drumming in a circle. I don't know if they will come, apparently nowadays young people are only interested in...
Words and photos: Michalina Kuczyńska Michalina Kuczyńska: You said that you knew from the beginning that you are not going to study photography in Poland. Why? Natalia Poniatowska: I was 13 when I started attending a film photography course in the Młodzieżowy Dom...
As part of the DigiKommune project, we have co-created with Mateusz Paszek (Wizerunkuj) two free courses: the course of recording and editing videos on your phone and the course of recording and sharing podcasts on your phone. The project focuses...
Words: Zuznna Stachura Illustrations: Katarzyna Baranek-Stachura My mother - Katarzyna Stachura - graduated as a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 1998 with an excellent mark. Over 20 years after graduation, she still works as a...
Anna Gołkowska Dymarczyk and Sylwia Jata from the Góry Kultury Association speak to Anna Ochmann Let's start from the beginning - where did the idea for the Góry Kultury (Mountains of Culture) association come from? Sylwia Jata: In fact, to an extent we all come from...
Adam Banach – a lawyer and culture culture animator (specialization in pantomime). He collaborated with numerous theater, juggling and fireshow groups. He currently works for the Kejos Theater, one of the leading contemporary circus groups in Poland. He works with...
A duo of designers - Wiktor Frączek, game developer, ex-programmer, and Wawrzyniec Wróblewski, currently UI/UX designer, previously art conservator, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts graduate. They’re experts in designing products and digital services. Besides design,...
"Poets of Today - Voices of Tomorrow" is a European cooperation project co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme and implemented by partner organisations from Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Finland. Its aim is to bring...
words by Iwa Kruczkowska-Król A bit out of spite, I use the words "Female artist" not because of rebellion against the word "artist" but to emphasise this juxtaposition's importance. This is an exciting topic, I will write about it from the perspective of a "woman...
The ARTeria Foundation is one of the partner organisations of the 'Poets of Today - Voices of Tomorrow' (POT-VOT) project, co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe programme. The project is coordinated by Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo...
words by Iwa Kruczkowska-Król Like any modern person, I use the essential tools and opportunities that the Internet gives us, and my actions are not significantly different from those of other users. However, I have several insights into using these excellent tools....
Words: Anna Ochmann In July 1999 I graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. My feeling of happiness was mixed with an overwhelming sense of exhaustion. My pride on having manage to graduate from the Academy was coupled with a feeling of hopelessness – what should...
Anna Ochmann We were holding our keys in our hands. Some of them were single, others were in whole bundles. One could see keys for a flat or a studio, the tiny ones were associated with mailboxes, padlocks or keys to bicycle locks. There were classic keys, flat...
Katarzyna Szota-Eksner runs a blog on Pyskowice and collects herstories that she is able to discover. Some of them has been also published in a book. She inspires others to look for non-obvious tropes and inspiring characters. Pyskowice is a small town in southern...
At the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020, as the activist group Nic o nas bez nas, (nothing concerning us without us) Women's Movement Gliwice, Pyskowice we organised a queue protest against the tightening of the abortion law. We stood in the centre of Gliwice...
Technology in the 21st century is accompanying us at every step - be it at the professional stage, where more and more people work in the office at the computer, preparing documents, presentations, creating movies or music, or in everyday life - using social media is...
CREATIVE AGORA is an international project in which the ARTeria Foundation, together with partners from seven European countries (Sweden, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Poland, France and Croatia), worked on tools for informal, participatory art education for adults by...
"I would like to say a few words about the “Break-in the desk” methodology and how I use it in the mentoring process. First of all, this methodology works in the best way for artists, creatives and creative organizations, which on the one hand, want to develop their...
Paolo D'Ercole, Materahub interviews Anna ochmann, ARTeria Foundation for #SocialEU project Paolo D'Ercole, Materahub: From no social to one of the most active organisations in EU projects social media promotion. What triggered this change? Anna Ochmann, ARTeria:...
Anna Gołkowska Dymarczyk and Sylwia Jata from the Góry Kultury Association speak to Anna Ochmann I meet again with Anna Gołkowska-Dymarczyk and Sylwia Jata from the “Góry Kultury" Association in Tarnowskie Góry We started our previous conversation with the live...
Anna Ochmann The concept of society 5.0 assumes that advanced technology will be used to solve everyday problems and promote a person-centered society. This idea was initiated in Japan in 2016 [1] [2]. It is becoming more and more popular as technology progresses and...
Michalina Kuczyńska, Foundation ARTeria interviews Ewa Pańczyk-Hołubiec You prepare the students of school of arts in Gliwice for a further education. In your opinion, which competences are the most crucial for young artists that are graduating secondary art school,...
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