18:00 (Arsenał Municipal Gallery) – Opening of the exhibition* and performance by Ania Nowak To the aching parts (Manifesto) / Do obolałych części (manifest) performed by Ala Urwał
20:00 (Arsenał Municipal Gallery) – march with Alternative für Drag (AfD) to Pawilon
21:00 (Pawilon) – Alternative für Drag (AfD) – show with the pozqueer collective**
23:00 (Lokum Stonewall) – afterparty: Poznań Pride 2025
* On the day of the vernissage, the exhibition will be open until 22:00.
** Due to limited capacity, free admission tickets are required and can be collected during the vernissage at Arsenał Municipal Gallery.
LGBT+ Zones. Queer Art in the Times of the Good Change
Arsenał Municipal Gallery in Poznań
30 May – 31 August 2025
Featuring: Ania Nowak, Bart Staszewski, Biblioteka Azyl, Daniel Kotowski, Daniel Rycharski, Edna Baud, Filip Kijowski, Filipka Rutkowska, Karol Radziszewski, Kacper Szalecki, KEM, Kinga Michalska and Sarah Chouinard-Poirier, Liliana Zeic, Małgorzata Mycek, Mikołaj Sobczak, Olga Dziubak, Piniak Przemysław, pozqueer, Sebulec, Sergey Shabohin, Slamka, X-Philes, Queer Archives Institute.
The largest institutional showcase of queer art in the past decade – a voice of resistance, memory, and community.
The exhibition LGBT+ Zones. Queer Art in the Times of the Good Change at Arsenał Municipal Gallery is the most comprehensive presentation of queer art in Poland since 2010.
The exhibition will feature works by 24 artists and collectives, creating some of the most expressive and engaged visual works in the Polish art field. The project focuses on the years 2015–2023, not only in the context of the Law and Justice government’s rule, which brought dramatic social decline and numerous acts of hate against the LGBTQIAP+ community, but also of intense activism, solidarity, and cultural change. The exhibition comes at a special time – the year Poland takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. This makes the exhibition not only a testimony to oppression but, above all, to strength, resilience, and communal resistance.
The curators of the exhibition – Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew and Gabi Skrzypczak, and curator of the performative program Andrzej Pakuła – have built the narrative around the titular zones, guiding visitors through complex contexts of queer creativity: from documentation of hate campaigns and artistic protest, through self-organization, representation strategies and self-advocacy, deconstruction of national myths, to the performance of new communities and identities.