Lodz Abstract Art Festival

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

The main goal of the festival is to introduce abstract art to a wide audience. Our activities are primarily based on exhibitions of visual artworks.

Additionally, the festival organizes accompanying events such as music and dance performances, performance art, lectures, drag queen shows, and tattooing events.

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| LAAF Open Call

Here is the full list of Open Call winners. Choosing from among 851 entries was a challenge. All of the works were of a very high standard, and we would like to thank every participant!

Here are the artists whose works you will see at this year's edition of LAAF: Sensitivity of Form!

| Flat Projects

Ana Djapovic

Katie Grinell

Natalia Kubiela

Feliks Nykaza

Piotr Olszewski

Masha Weisberg

Mateusz Ziomek

| Spatial Projects

Csizik László Balázs

Antoni Dzieciuch

Bo Jessen Fogh Laursen

Julia Kamieńska

Kajetan Jełowicki

Florencia Lasch

| Time-Based Projects

Arash Akbari

Katarzyna Kiełczewska

Ying-Chen Joyce Lin

Naomi Pomorska

Kai Luca Salzer

Ola Skowrońska

Congratulations!

Our goal is to create a platform where abstract art can freely develop.

LAAF Association

We are an organization dedicated to the cultural development of Łódź, specifically focused on propagating, promoting, and disseminating abstract art and abstract thinking. The Association achieves 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 their collaboration with other artists and art institutions.

Łódź Abstraction

The concept of the LAAF festival is rooted in the history of the city of Łódź. Since the interwar period, its art scene has been strongly connected with abstract artists such as Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro, and Henryk Stażewski. Together with other artists of that period, they formed an artistic group called a.r.

Their activities had a huge impact on the development of abstraction, which is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Łódź. Thanks to the involvement of this group, the Museum of Art in Łódź acquired 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.

Furthermore, the legacy of the a.r. group includes composition classes conducted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. This is one of the few universities in Poland that places such a strong emphasis on this subject.