About NARRACJE

NARRACJE is a festival of contemporary art presented in Gdańsk’s public space. The artworks navigate viewers around this urban adventure: using various tools, they remain closely connected with the space. They provoke, intervene, and remove subsequent layers of the everyday to reveal hidden meanings.

Each year, NARRACJE takes place in autumn, each time in a different district, which serves as the point of departure for curators and as inspiration to artists.

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).

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.

In 2022 the festival takes place in a district of Przeróbka and is curated by Emi Orzechowska (the art strand) and Bogna Świątkowska (the city strand).

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