21/05/2026
Zapraszamy na sympozjum i pokaz prac naszych Osób studiujących, absolwentek i absolwentów oraz studentów Szkoły Doktorskiej.
Sztuka, granice i demokracja: kino Agnieszki Holland a polityka obywatelstwa
Gościni Honorowa:
AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
Inicjatywa i koordynacja projektu: Krzysztof Krakowski (King’s College London) & Agnieszka Piotrowska
Organizatorzy: King’s College London we współpracy z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
Uczestnicy i prelegenci: Eylem Atakav • Joanna Clifton-Sprigg • Laith Elzubaidi • Filip Ignatowicz • Anna Leśniak • Hera Lorandos • Ornella Mutoni • Lily Parrott • Lorenzo Piccoli • Meetra Qutb • Belén Vidal • Piotr Wyrzykowski
TERMIN:
21 maja 2026, godz. 18:00 – Specjalny pokaz filmu Zielona granica i dyskusja
22 maja 2026 – Sympozjum i panele dyskusyjne
MIEJSCE: King’s College London, Bush House
Wydarzeniu towarzyszą działania artystyczne reprezentantów ASP w Gdańsku oraz pokaz prac wideo studentów i absolwentów uczelni, przygotowany przez akademicki zespół kuratorski (Małgorzata Jankowska, Anka Leśniak, Filip Ignatowicz, Piotr Wyrzykowski).
ART, BORDERS AND DEMOCRACY: THE CINEMA OF AGNIESZKA HOLLAND AND THE POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP
Keynote Speaker:
AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
Initiated and Coordinated by: Krzysztof Krakowski (King’s College London) & Agnieszka Piotrowska Organized by: King’s College London in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Participants: Eylem Atakav • Joanna Clifton-Sprigg • Laith Elzubaidi • Filip Ignatowicz • Anka Leśniak • Hera Lorandos • Ornella Mutoni • Lily Parrott • Lorenzo Piccoli • Meetra Qutb • Belén Vidal • Piotr Wyrzykowski
VENUE: King’s College London, Bush House
DATES:
21 May 2026 | 18:00 – Special Screening: Green Border followed by Q&A
22 May 2026 – Full Day Symposium and Panel Discussions
The event features artistic interventions by participating artists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, alongside a video showcase of student and alumni works organized by the academic curatorial team (Małgorzata Jankowska, Anka Leśniak, Filip Ignatowicz, Piotr Wyrzykowski).
INTERSECTIONS
Screening of videos created by students, doctoral candidates and alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
The screening presents a selection of video works developed in recent years across various studios and departments of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. The works were created in Intermedia Studios, the Film Studio, the Studio of Art in Public Space, the Animation Studio and the Multimedia Drawing Studio. Together, they bring artistic practices from the Faculty of Painting, the Faculty of Graphic Arts, the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia, as well as from the Doctoral School.
The selected works resonate strongly with the themes of the symposium Art, Borders and Democracy: The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland and the Politics of Citizenship. They address questions of identity, interpersonal relations, migration, labour, national belonging, protest, solidarity, the legacy of the Gdańsk Shipyard, the search for shelter and the crossing of borders, both literal and metaphorical. They also explore human relationships with other species and with nature, opening up broader reflections on citizenship, vulnerability, exclusion and collective responsibility. In this sense, the screening becomes a space in which art responds to the politics of citizenship through sensitivity and critical observation.
The programme brings together a wide spectrum of artistic forms: animation, video art, video performance, short film narratives, documentary strategies, long static shots and dynamic video montage. The works not only reveal feminist and q***r perspectives, but also expand the discussion towards social, political and historical contexts. They ask what it means to belong, to resist, to remember, to seek refuge and to act in solidarity in a reality shaped by resurgent totalitarianisms, escalating violence and growing social uncertainty.
As a whole, Intersections creates a dialogue between young artistic voices and the central questions of the conference. The presented works reflect on borders not only as geopolitical lines, but also as psychological, social, ecological and symbolic thresholds.
The screening of works by students, doctoral candidates and alumni has been collectively curated by Anna Leśniak, Filip Ignatowicz, Robert Turło and Weronika Dziurdziewicz.
SCREENING
Oliwia Gapińska, 60bpm – About Me
Aleksandra Komkowska, Cage
Stefan Kornacki, Victoria
Mateusz Kowalczyk, I Speak and I Burn
Dominik Baltazar Kowalski, Balthazar’s Dream
Mateusz Kozłowski, Limbo
Mac Lewandowski, Matrix
Zuzanna Malinowska, Artifact
Dominika Michałowska, HERbrid
Małgorzata Miklaszewska, The Erlking
Weronika Pilacka, Den
Anastasiya Pilipchuk, The Gdańsk Shipyard Named After Lenin?
Dominik Staszak, The Double
Milla Tomasik, Szugea
Laura Wankiewicz, Never-ending Film: Halo Mom
Oska Żuk, Untitled
DATE AND VENUE
22 May 2026
King’s College London, Bush House