The Polish pavilion houses Poland's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Background
Organization and building
The pavilion was originally designated for Venetian decorative arts as part of Brenno Del Giudice's Sant'Elena Island complex designed and built in 1932.
Representation by year
Art
1970 — Jozef Szajna, "Reminiscences" 1980 — Magdalena Abakanowicz, "Embryology" 1993 — Mirosław Bałka, "Soap Corridor" 1995 — Roman Opalka 1999 — Katarzyna Kozyra, "Men's Bathhouse" (honorary mention) 2003 — Stanisław Dróżdż, "ALEA IACTA EST" project (Curator: Paweł Sosnowski) 2005 — Artur Żmijewski, " Repetition" 2007 — Monika Sosnowska, "1:1" (Curator: Sebastian Cichocki) 2009 — Krzysztof Wodiczko, " Guests " (Curator: Bożena Czubak) 2011 — Yael Bartana, "And Europe will be stunned" (Curators: Sebastian Cichocki, Galit Eilat) 2013 — Konrad Smolenski, "Everything was forever until it was no more" audio installation (Curators: Agnieszka Pindera, Daniel Muzyczuk) 2015 — Joanna Malinowska and C. T. Jasper, "Halka/Haiti 18°48’05″N 72°23’01″W"(Curator: Magdalena Moskalewicz) 2017 — Sharon Lockhart, "Little Review" (Curator: Barbara Piwowarska)Alex Greenberger (October 19, 2016), Sharon Lockhart Will Represent Poland at the 2017 Venice Biennale ARTnews. 2019 — Roman Stańczak (Curators: Łukasz Mojsak, Łukasz Ronduda)Alex Greenberger (February 5, 2019), Roman Stanczak Will Represent Poland at the 2019 Venice Biennale ARTnews. 2022 — Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (Curators: Wojciech Szymański and Joanna Warsza)José da Silva (17 December 2021), Venice Biennale 2022: all the national pavilions, artists and curators The Art Newspaper. 2026 — Bogna Burska und Daniel Kotowski "Liquid Tongues" (Curators: Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko](17 December 2021), Liquid Tonges The Polish Pavillon in Venice.
Architecture Source: 1991 — (Commissioner: Aleksander Wojciechowski) 1996 — (Commissioner: Anda Rottenberg, Curator: Olgierd Czerner) 2004 — Architectures: Meta-structures of Humanity, Morphic Strategies of Exposure (Commissioner: Agnieszka Morawińska, Curator: Adam Budak) 2006 — Transfer (Commissioner: Agnieszka Morawińska, Curator: Gabriela Świtek) 2008 — Hotel Polonia. The Afterlife of Buildings (Commissioner: Agnieszka Morawińska, Curators: Grzegorz Piątek, Jarosław Trybuś) 2010 — Emergency Exit (Commissioner: Agnieszka Morawińska, Curator: Elias Redstone) 2012 — Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers (Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska, Curator: Michał Libera) 2014 — Impossible Objects (Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska, Curator: Instytut Architektury) 2016 — Fair Building (Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska, Curator: Dominika Janicka) 2018 — Amplifying Nature (Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska, Curator: Anna Ptak) 2021 — Trouble in Paradise (Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska, Curator: PROLOG +1) 2023 — Datament (Commissioner: Janusz Janowski, Curator: Jacek Sosnowski) 2025 — Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture (Commissioner: Agnieszka Pindera, Curator: Aleksandra Kędziorek)
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