Concept

NARRACJE Festival has been exploring urban themes and stories since 2009. Using various media ranging from intimate performances to large-format video projections, artists from Poland and abroad are placing well-known districts of Gdańsk in a new context. Each year, the Festival takes place in late autumn, giving a reason to leave the house and explore the city on two November evenings.

Among the previous curators of NARRACJE were: Bettina Pelz (2009-2011), Steven Matijcio (2012), Rob Garrett (2013), Anna Witkowska i Adam Witkowski (2014), Anna Smolak (2015), Stach Szabłowski (2016), Anna Czaban (2017), Piotr Stasiowski (2018), Sylwia Szymaniak and Sarmen Beglarian (2019), Karina Kottova and Piotr Sikora (2021), Emilia Orzechowska and Bogna Światkowska (2022), Katarzyna Słoboda and Jakub Gawkowski (2023), Zuzanna Mielczarek and Mateusz Włodarek (2024).

Over the years the NARRACJE has taken place in the Lower, Main and Old Town of Gdansk, at the Gdansk Shipyard, on the Long Gardens, in Upper Wrzeszcz, New Port, Biskupia Hill, Brzeźno, Oliwa, Sidelce, Lower Wrzeszcz, Przeróbka, Orunia and Niedźwiednik.

In 2025 the festival takes place in a residential district of Aniołki and is curated by Maja Murawska and Karolina Połom.

NARRACJE are organised by the Urban Culture Institute in cooperation with the Gdańsk City Gallery.