The Polish illustrator Joanna Concejo talks about why paper is ‘fickle’, her grandmother’s storytelling, and her ...

An economist by education, Sapkowski worked in foreign trade from 1972-1994. He is a five-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the most important honour for fantasy writers in Poland. He ...

‘Portet Henryka Sienkiewicz’ (Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Portrait) by Kazimierz Mordasewicz, 1899, photo: National Museum in Warsaw The son of an impoverished landowner, Sienkiewicz attended a Warsaw ...

There is a building everybody who has visited Warsaw remembers. It has been a bone of contention for fifty years and still evokes extreme emotions. It has 42 floors, consumes as much energy as a town ...

In the 19th century, the Polish city of Łódź grew from a tiny farming town into a bustling textile industry metropolis – at a rate unseen anywhere else in Europe at the time. The cosmopolitan city was ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

In May 2015, the University of Cambridge unveiled a strange white structure shaped like a futuristic Christmas tree. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Sierpiński triangle, a type of ...

The plot of The Invincible is loosely related to Lem's novel of the same name – the creators took the world of the planet ...

A two-minute piece must last for several minutes or several hours – Filip Lech talks to the composer of film, television and ...

Culture.pl looks at the outsiders and visionaries who created some of the most intriguing avant-garde films of the Interwar ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture ...