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.

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

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.