A series of workshops mixing theatre, fine arts, and music. The classes combine elements of improvisational theatre, activities within a space, various art techniques, and the use of modern multimedia. During classes, we focus on movement, joint activities, and sensory stimulation. Kaleidoscope of art – workshops for children aged 2-3 Workshops are held from 10:30 […]
We encourage you to visit Cricoteka with a guide, also in foreign languages.
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 […]
Classes stimulate children’s imagination, creativity, manual and motor skills based on sensory games with water, sound, and movement. Parents and children find shared pleasure in experiencing and discovering their surroundings. The proposed topic begins a creative journey into the child’s world.
1975–2025. The 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Dead Class! The starting point of the “(Un)Dead Class” exhibition will be an attempt to answer the question of the power of Kantor’s play. Why did it disturb audiences and evoke such radical emotions? “(Un)Dead Class” – Temporary Exhibition Opening: February 26, 6:00 PMDuration: February […]
Rollercoaster is a dance presentation program organized by Cricoteka and Krakow Dance Theatre. This year, curators Paweł Łyskawa and Eryk Makohon will invite audiences to experience dance performances by both Polish and international artists. We have premieres, special meetings, and unique shows ahead—events that, we hope, will give us all a much-needed boost of positive […]
The Pagmatistis by Trap Door Theatre will be shown at Cricoteka as a preview of the programme accompanying the exhibition “(Un)Dead Class”, scheduled to open in February 2025. The Pragmatists by Stanisław I. Witkiewicz was created as the first theatrical play subject to the principles of ‘pure form’ formulated by the author. Witkacy’s work inspired […]
At the centre of this year’s Playing with Kantor Festival is a relatively young country (having achieved independence in 1830), one with difficult history and complex identity, one that fosters its separateness seeing it as a wealth in its own right – Belgium. The theme of the festival, “doubleness,” is present at more than one […]
Agata Skwarczyńska’s ‘Anatomy lesson – reconfiguration’ is intended as a dialogue with Tadeusz Kantor’s happening, who returned to the staging of Rembrandt’s painting (‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp’) as many as four times. At the same time Skwarczynska’s performance is a new realisation in the catalogue of attempts to reconstruct the famous painting, an […]
PAIN GAME (second station) by mariia Lemperk is a circumperformative exhibition based on another edition of a participative, processual, and traveling project thathas been going on since 2023, and its documentation. 3.07–1.09 2024
“Rollercoaster” is a programme of modern dance presentations which, for the past seven years, has been organised by Cricoteka and Krakow Dance Theatre. The spectacles, chosen by the curators Paweł Łyskawa and Eryk Makohon, are presented from spring to winter. The theme of the 2024 programme is “Space”, one of the four motion factors, as […]
As part of sharing good practices, we organize meetings for groups of students interested in learning about the activity of cultural institutions.
A theatrical experiment is before us, an attempt to look at Kantor’s last work from two perspectives: scientific and artistic. For six months, a group of people involved in theatre, dance or performance will be searching for meanings, possible scenarios and unrealized shifts in Tadeusz Kantor’s performance Today Is My Birthday. After participating in seminars […]
Since 2018 Cricoteka has hosted a series of monthly screenings of theatre productions by Polish and international directors which play artistically with the work of Tadeusz Kantor. Curated by Anna Róża Burzyńska, the programme adopts a new format this year to present contemporary Spanish theatre, dance theatre, performance and dramaturgy. It examines the interactions of […]
Oil on canvas, gouache on cardboard, hammered steel, cut marble, percussion and piano fugue, or bodies in light, text in motion, dance in sound? Can oil on canvas be transcribed into a kinetic oratorio? What will such a translation bring – loss or discovery? Is translation a dialogue or perhaps a compromise? Limited resources or […]
We warmly invite you to participate in the events accompanying the Constellations exhibition organized as part of the Copernicus Festival 2023: Cosmos! Events for adults and children will be held on June 11, 17 and 18.
For years, scholars have been asking themselves about the boundaries of cosmos, the principles that govern its functioning, and our place in it. Similarly, artists test the boundaries of art, look for the reach of creative matter and coincidence, consciously rejecting the previously worked out laws. Constellations is a story of abstraction that goes beyond […]
