Polish Art Week
Berlin 16-23.06.2025

The Avant Art Festival — an international platform for new and experimental music and art — returns to Berlin for its sixth edition. This year’s festival expands its format through a special focus on Polish art, presented as part of the project Polish Art Week. Taking place from 16 to 23 June, it promises to be one of Berlin’s major artistic events of the season, featuring cutting-edge and uncompromising artists from Poland, as well as from across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Seven days of intense sound and visual experiences lie ahead, in which music becomes a field of experimentation and transgression. At the intersection of jazz, avant-garde, new tradition, improvisation and electronics, new fields of expression will be created, intermingling with painting, multimedia installations, performance and audiovisual art. This is an event for those who seek non-obviousness, openness and artistic courage. You are welcome!

Events

15 June 2025 15:33 Kulturzug / Train to Culture

L.A.S. Collective (PL) / Kulturzug Wroclaw – Berlin Music

16 June 2025 12:30 Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Berlin

Conference: CULTURE – CHANGE – EUROPE Exhibition Music Talk

16 June 2025 19:00 NADAN Gallery

ELIXIR (Natalia Janula, Wojciech Skiba) Exhibition

16 June 2025 20:00 NADAN Gallery

Sam Kowalski (PL) Music

17 June 2025 19:00 Polish Institute Berlin

Our Touch is the Touch of Feminists (Ewa Partum, Mehtap Baydu) Exhibition Performance

17 June 2025 19:00 GRETCHEN tickets

Kali Malone (USA) / Širom (SI) / Królówczana Smuga (PL) / Non-adaptive Dance Music (PL) / Gary Gwadera (PL) Music

17 June 2025 15:00 Morphine Raum tickets

Morphine Raum vol. 1: Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) & Qba Janicki (PL) Music

18 June 2025 20:00 GRETCHEN tickets

Kevin Richard Martin & KMRU (UK/KE) / HOLY SCUM (UK/USA) / Rashad Becker (DE/SYR) / Lumpeks (FR/PL) / Michał Żak & Synnøve Plassen (PL/NOR) Music

18 June 2025 17:00 Morphine Raum tickets

Morphine Raum vol. 2: Ola Rzepka (PL), Zosia Ilnicka (PL), Axel Dörner, Erhard Hirt / Avant Art & Ad Libitum Music

18 June 2025 18:00 MORFINE RAUM

Morphine Raum vol. 3: Gerard Lebik plays Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973) / Rhythmical lines Music Performance

19 June 2025 20:00 URBAN SPREE / CONCERT HALL

AICHER & SZWED (UK/AU/ PL) / Dis Fig dj set (USA) / Dule Tree (PL) / Furminator (PL) Music

19 June 2025 19:00 URBAN SPREE / GALLERY

Hardcore & Soul (Paulina Hendigery, Inga Wójcik, Stach Szumski, Mateusz Sarzyński, Eternal Engine, Krzysiek Bykowski) Exhibition Performance

19 June 2025 20:00 ARKAODA tickets

Malediwy (PL) / Sara Persico (IT), Koenraad Ecker (BE), Ludwig Wandinger (DE), Gerard Lebik (PL) Music

20 June 2025 20:00 PANKE tickets

Slikback (KE) / Rully Shabara (ID): Xhabarabot / Nadja (CA) / T’ien Lai (PL) / RZWD (PL) Music Performance

21 June 2025 18:00 POV Gallery

POV: umysł biedaka Exhibition

21 June 2025 16:00 POV Gallery

POV Experience: aemlx (PL) / HASSAN K. (IR/FR) / Ewa Sad (PL) / SKY (PL) / Meuko!Meuko! dj set (TW) / Zura (PL) Music

22 June 2025 20:00 Silent Green / Kuppelhalle tickets

DO 555ps AV: JERZY MĄCZYŃSKI & Katarzyna Dębska w/ Rabih Beaini Nour Sokhon (INT) / Czajka & Puchacz (SI/PL) Music

23 June 2025 14:00 Polish Institute Berlin

Empowering people of culture: international systems of support and professional development of artists Music Talk

23 June 2025 16:00 Polish Institute Berlin

Michał Barański Masovian Mantra (INT) Music

23 June 2025 18:00 Kunsthaus KuLe

Afterek by Kujonki (PL/UA) Music Performance

Artists

Partners

This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.

Contact

Polish Art Week Berlin

Kostas Georgakopulos – musician, president of Avant Art Foundation, artistic director of Avant Art Festival, head of Tone Industria label / Katarzyna Golecka – Avant Art Foundation Director, management, PR & marketing / Urszula Ziędalska – chief accountant / Krzysiek Bykowski – booking, visual arts / Piotr Motyl – producer / Dima Belush – producer / Martyna Mik – head coordinator, volunteering / Renata Abel – coordinator / Kajetan Chlipalski – coordinator / Yana Savchuk – coordinator / U N I C O R N – social media / Michał Szota – web design

info@avantart.pl 

*We reserve the right not to respond to unsolicited offers from booking agents and artists.

Jemek Jemowit (Ziemowit Nowak) (PL)

A Berlin-based underground artist blending gothic glam, experimental pop, rap, and techno. Born in Gdynia in 1986 and raised in Berlin, his genre-defying work combines music, performance, and politics to confront issues of identity, racism, and cultural stereotypes—especially regarding Eastern European and LGBTQ+ communities.Since 2006, Jemowit has released a wide range of music, including Zemsta, TEKKNO POLO, and Das Satanische Album, often using irony, theatricality, and cultural pastiche. His 2021 rock opera Legenda Zygmunta Blask imagined a queer Polish Ziggy Stardust in the 1970s People’s Republic of Poland.
In 2024, his video installation The Poles of Berlin premiered at the Humboldt Forum, exploring anti-Polish discrimination. His 2025 EP The Ancestry, released by aufnahme + wiedergabe, expands on these themes, confronting racism in Europe—including within leftist circles—and featuring contributions from artists like Tav Falco and techno producer Katrin Wolke

23 June 2025 18:00 Kunsthaus KuLe

Afterek by Kujonki (PL/UA) Music Performance