Fri, 12.09.2025
18:00–23:00
Meeting
Muzeum Warszawy
free admission
Night of Photography 2025
This year’s edition of the Night of Photography is organized under the slogan City Limits / Limits Within the City.
Museum of Warsaw, Rynek 30 Gallery
30 Old Town Market Square
6PM – opening of the exhibition To Build a House by Jakub Stanek, curator: Karolina Ziębińska
This is the first presentation of an excerpt from the series titled To Do a List. To Father a Son, To Plant a Tree, To Build a House, which the photographer has been developing for many years now.
Museum of Warsaw, Lapidarium
40 Old Town Market Square
6.30PM–7.30PM – meeting with Cian Oba-Smith, Zula Rabikowska, Lewis Khan and Alice Poyzer
The meeting will be chaired by Eva Eicker, Associate Curator at the London’s Photographers’ Gallery. The discussion will provide an opportunity to gain a closer insight into one of the most diverse photographic scenes in the world.
Meeting will be held in English.
Museum of Warsaw
30–42 Old Town Market Square
7.30PM – opening – a welcome, handing over the diplomas to the laureates of the City Limits / Limits Within the City competition organised by the Museum of Warsaw’s Centre of Photography
7.45PM–8PM – projection of works by the laureates of the photography competition:
- Marcin Nalepa Third Landscape,
- Dorota Raczyńska Beyond the Water,
- Maciej Stępiński Production of Space (cycle II),
- Tytus Szabelski-Różniak Capital,
- Anna Chyrykala and Darii Bogdanova In Between Places,
- Tomek Cichorek Warsaw Dream.
The jury consisting of Kamila Bondar, Tomek Fudala, Agata Grzybowska, Joanna Kinowska, Michał Łuczak, and Karolina Ziębińska have selected four projects by established artists and two by emerging ones. The jury recognised works that interpreted the competition theme in diverse ways, revealing physical, social and symbolic boundaries from local, historical, political and personal perspectives. More information.
The authors demonstrated consistency in their practice, an experimental approach to photography and the ability to combine documentary observation with poetic narrative.
8PM–11PM – show of photographs by British artists (in a loop):
- Martin Parr,
- the representatives of the new generation of British photographers (affiliated with The Photographers’ Gallery), whose projects resonate with this year’s Night of Photography theme: Serena Brown, Lewis Khan, Nina Manandhar, Alice Poyzer, Zula Rabikowska, Cian Oba-Smith,
- a selection of photos from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London: Thomas Annan, Jennie Baptiste, Dorothy Bohm, Bill Brandt, Maurice Broomfield, Robert Brownjohn, Isabel Agnes Cowper, Francis Frith, William Henry Fox Talbot, Emil Otto Hoppe, Tom Hunter, Sarah Jones, Normski, Paul Martin, Dieter Meier, Mark Power, Sarah Pickering, Micha Riss, Simon Roberts, John Thomson, Agnes Beatrice Warburg, G.W. Wilson.
Presentation of works by British artists is supported by the British Council under the UK/Poland Season 2025.
Association of Polish Artists-Photographers [ZPAF]
8 Zamkowy Square
6PM–11PM – Ujawnienie / Exposure exhibition by Agnieszka Sadowska, curator: Joanna Kinowska
6PM–7.45PM – Adventure with the Optics – a workshop for children and youth
8PM–9PM – an evening of stories: Basilisk’s Eye
8PM–11PM – presentation of works by the artists affiliated in the Association of Polish Artists-Photographers: Patryk Karbowski and Maria Książek, as well as photos produced as part of the project titled Snapshots. Photographic Archive of Revitalisation (in a loop)
Lengrenówka – Museum of Caricature studio
6/8A Brzozowa St
8PM–11PM – presentation of works by the laureates of the City Limits / Limits Within the City competition and photographs from the Museum of Warsaw collection (in a loop)
A presentation of works by the laureates of the City Limits / Limits Within the City photography competition as well as a special show of photographs which are to be displayed in the Room of Photography at the Museum of Warsaw, about to open on 29 October 2025.
Duration of the competition entries show: approx. 15 minutes
Duration of the show of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw: approx. 5 minutes
Alina Foundation
31/33 Brzozowa St
8PM–11PM – presentation of the project by Janek Zamoyski Urban Syntheses (in a loop)
Duration of the screening: approx. 3-5 minutes
Barbican
15/17 Nowomiejska St
8PM–11PM – presentation of photographs from the Habitat series by Michał Łuczak and the Lost in Between project by Joanna Kinowska (in a loop)
Sto Pociech Foundation
20/24A Freta St
8PM–9.20PM – presentation of a selection of the photos shown at the Night of the Year of the Rencontres d’Arles Festival
9.25PM–9.35PM – presentation of projects by female artists from the Polish Women Photographers collective: Heart in the Centre by Małgorzata Wakuluk, Nolimits by Paulina Holtz
9.40PM–11PM – presentation of a selection of photos shown at the Night of the Year of the Rencontres d’Arles Festival
Museum of Warsaw, Syrena Cinema
42 Old Town Market Square
8.30PM–9.30PM – Quality of Photography – a meeting with Bownik, ambassador of Fujifilm
Meeting will be held in Polish.
Read the detailed program of the event.
