What does home mean to us?
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Is it possible to feel at home in more than one place? And what stays with us when we change country, language and surroundings? These are the questions that have been on the mind of French artist Marilyne Grimmer over the past few weeks during her residency in Wrocław.
What remains of the place we left behind?
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None of the photographs were taken in Korea. And yet Korea is present in almost every frame. A year after Marina Pietrocoli and Mariam Giunashvili’s artist residencies in Wrocław, their photographs and the stories of the people they met return as part of the exhibition ‘Ordinary Distances’.
Grafikwerkstatt Studio – we know who’s going on the residency!
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We now know the winner of the May call for applications for the artist residency in Dresden. This autumn, Paulina Piechaczek will be working on her projects at Grafikwerkstatt Studio. Congratulations! The City of Wrocław, in collaboration with its partner city, Dresden, has been organising a residency programme for artists specialising in printmaking for nine […]
Creative Journeys from Lithuania to Ruska 46
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Art, local stories and personalities from across Europe will once again come together in Ruska’s colourful courtyard. Find out which stories we’ll be bringing together this time as part of the MagiC Carpets platform. Marijonas Verbel, this year’s artist-in-residence under the AIR Wro international support programme, focuses their artistic practice on creative work in the […]
Big and small discoveries in the ‘Okna na podwórze’ project
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We have a busy period ahead of us at 46 Ruska Street. We have a busy period ahead of us at 46 Ruska Street. The summer weather has brought a wealth of events, gatherings and initiatives to our courtyard. One of these includes work on the courtyard archive as part of Rafał Skwarek’s MagiC Carpets […]
Marilyne Grimmer – this year’s first Magic Carpets resident in Wrocław announced
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Following a multi-stage selection process, we are pleased to announce that Marilyne Grimmer has been selected from among the more than one hundred applicants who submitted their applications through the OPEN CALL for this year’s Magic Carpets residency in Wrocław.
Meet the winners of Culture of Mobility 2026
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A trip to a cast iron foundry conference in the US, a residency focused on exploring new technologies in organ music in Lübeck, Germany, and the preparation of an individual exhibition and graphic workshops in Valencia—these are just some of the projects by Wrocław-based artists who have received support under the Mobile Culture 2026 program. […]
From Saxony to Lower Silesia – Ana Pireva coming to Wrocław for a graphic residency in April
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This is the tenth year of artistic cooperation between Wrocław and Dresden! Thanks to the support of the Departments of Culture of two neighboring regions—Lower Silesia and Saxony—and partners from municipal cultural institutions, we are co-organizing another edition of the residency exchange for artists associated with the printmaking community.
New year at AIR Wro – recruitment for support programs for artists begins
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As part of the MagiC Carpets platform, we invite artists to participate in an international residency program organized in cooperation with the Korean community in Wrocław. At the beginning of February, we will also start recruiting for the next edition of Mobile Culture, a program aimed at Lower Silesian cultural activists who, thanks to our […]
Building trust through the lens – Mariam Giunashvili’s residency
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Disposable cameras, daily rituals, and building relationships between two seemingly distant worlds—this is how the photographic stories of the Korean community in Wrocław were created, documented by a Georgian photographer as part of the Magic Carpets residency.
In search of an invisible community – Marina Pietrocola’s residency
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The Italian photographer’s month-long creative residency in Wrocław became an attempt to reach out to a community that lives right next to us, yet remains almost invisible on a daily basis. Combining documentary photography with social practices, the artist established a dialogue with the Korean minority in our city.
A story about the power of building women’s community – Olga Budzan’s residency
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As part of the “Barbara 1965–2025” workshop series, Olga Budzan and a group of women from Wrocław created a large-format textile installation inspired by the history of the iconic Wrocław bar, now the headquarters of WIK.
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