Get to know the winning initiatives of Culture of Mobility 2025

A residency in the artistic community of Cerdeira and participation in the 17th International Ceramic Art Biennial in Aveiro, Portugal, a trip to the International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College in New York, or a professional visit and the premiere of a choreographic performance in Gothenburg – and these are not even half of the projects that will receive support under the local support program Culture of Mobility 2025! Check out what foreign initiatives will be implemented by the winners of this year’s recruitment.

As representatives of cultural staff from Wrocław and Lower Silesia, in the recruitment lasting from 3 to 28 February, you submitted a total of an impressive number of 37 applications, sharing with us this year’s plans for the implementation of your foreign initiatives supporting the development of artistic careers and the promotion of our city and region. The submitted projects were diverse and often consulted with us on their merits. From among them, the committee finally selected 7 mobility proposals.

Whose trips are we supporting this year?

Kamila Mróz will next week be the first Polish speaker to take part in the International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College in New York, during which she will present her own flameworking technique (shaping borosilicate glass using a gas-oxygen burner). Additionally, the artist will also have a study visit to the Corning Museum of Glass – the world’s largest museum of artistic glass.

At the end of March, Marta Sieczkowska will travel to the Independent Publishing Fair “Libros Mutantes” in Madrid, and will also have a series of networking visits to local bookstores and printing and illustration studios in order to establish contacts with independent publishers, artists and designers from Spain. 

Natalia Drozd will premiere her choreographic performance “Superstar” in Gothenburg in May. “Superstar” is an original concept from the field of dance art, in which the audience will be an integral part of the choreographic performance. The idea is based on dance practice, which deals with relationships and connections in the bodies of the dancers.

Marta Falkowska will go on a networking visit to the Stockholm International Comics Festival in the spring to exchange organizational practices, which she then plans to use in her work on the Wrocław Independent Comics Festival.

The Wrocław Improvised Orchestra, consisting of 15 people, will set off in June for the Ebbies Haus am Berg Symposium devoted to improvised music in Colditz, Germany. The formation will be involved in conducting workshops on improvisation and improvised conducting. The orchestra members will also organize improvised concerts and an orchestra concert, which will be joined by previously trained local musicians. The project aims to promote improvisation skills and initiate international cooperation among musicians.

At the turn of October and November, Aleksandra Walaszek will hold a studio residency at the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin. During her two-month research stay, the artist will delve into the concepts of East and West through the architecture, history and borders of Europe – from East Berlin, through the Polish-German border, to the contemporary eastern border of the EU and Poland. In the context of the city’s turbulent history and growing global tensions, Walaszek wants to analyze the changing borders and the concept of the nation state. The residency will be a natural extension of her previous artistic practice, focusing on the topics of migration, identity and space.

In the autumn, Małgorzata Maternik will take part in the 17th International Ceramic Art Biennial in Aveiro, Portugal. Additionally, the visual artist and curator from Zielona Góra will hold a residency at the Cerdeira artistic community. The project is a continuation of the artist’s previous professional activities in the field of ceramics and an opportunity to deepen knowledge in the field of technological and conceptual solutions and exchange experiences with the international artistic community.

Congratulations to the winners!