Lodz Abstract Art Festival

LAAF, in short, is an interdisciplinary abstract art festival.

The main goal of the festival is to bring abstract art to a wide audience. The basis of our activities is the exhibition of visual art works.

In addition, the festival includes side events such as music and dance performances, performances, lectures, drag queen performances and tattoo events.

15.11.2025 (Saturday)

LAAF_WIP

LAAF Work in Progress is an event centered around performance activities, combining choreography, workshops and site-specific activities. It will be accompanied by exhibitions, and the event's atmosphere will foster casual, informal conversations with artists.

We meet on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 4:00 pm at 147 Piotrkowska Street in Lodz, as part of the Contemporary Art Festival: Pulsing the Everyday. The event is part of the Month of Art in Lodz - Lodz Art Now.

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21.10.2025 (Tuesday)

Points of support

This is an event accompanying Johannes Rave's exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz, Gallery Re: Medium. Join us for a two-part workshop block on the subject of balance - between body, image and breath. The first meeting, led by Ula Tarasiewicz, will be devoted to breathing practice and mindfulness - the search for inner harmony and contact with one's own rhythm. The second part is an art workshop, during which participants will be able to translate the experience of balance into the language of image and form.The whole is a space for stopping, observation and subtle dialogue between the physical and the emotional.

Free admission |
Due to limited space, please let us know if you would like to attend a.szwajcowska.laaf@gmail.com or via instagram @laaf.lodz

Hours:
17:30 - 19:00 | Lecture and breathing workshop
19:10 - 20:30 | Art workshop

Location:

Re: Medium (113 Piotrkowska St. - entrance from the street)
ETC. Studio of Letters and Signs (113 Piotrkowska St. - entrance through the gate)

Event partners:

Municipal Art Gallery
ETC. Letter and Sign Workshop
United in Breath
Łódź Art Now

LAAF Association

We are an organization directed at the cultural development of Lodz, particularly concerned with the propagation, promotion and dissemination of abstract art and thinking. The Association pursues its goals by organizing exhibitions, conferences, workshops, lectures, competitions, festivals and other activities related to abstract art.

We aim to support abstract artists, their development and collaboration with other artists and art-related institutions.

Lodz Abstraction

At the core of the concept of the LAAF festival is the history of the city of Lodz. Its art scene since the 20-year interwar period was strongly associated with artists involved in abstract art, such as Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro and Henryk Stażewski. Together with other artists of the period, they formed an art group called a.r.

Their activities had a huge impact on the development of abstraction, which is strongly inscribed in the fabric of the city of Lodz. Thanks to the involvement of this group, the Museum of Art in Lodz came into possession of a collection of works by the most prominent representatives of the European avant-garde, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Hans Arp and Sonia Delaunay.

In addition, the legacy of the a.r. group includes composition classes taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. It is one of the few universities in Poland placing such a strong emphasis on the above issue.