When: 16 March - 21 June 2009
Where: Tate Britain, Rooms 22 and 25
Admission free, open every day 10.00-17.50. First Friday of every month open until 22.00
For further information see www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888

In collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute, Tate Britain is showing a group of works by Polish Symbolist artists alongside paintings by their British contemporaries exploring the relationship between the two schools around 1900. The display features a selection of works that have been lent from public and private collections in Poland. This is the first time there has been an exhibition on the subject of Polish art at Tate and the display coincides with the Polska!Year in the UK. Artists include Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alfred Gilbert, Stanisław Wyspiański, Józef Mehoffer, Witold Wojtkiewicz and Jacek Malczewski.

Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and launches Polska!Year.

An Impossible Journey,  the first major UK exhibition of Tadeusz Kantor’s work for over 30 years, opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, on Tuesday 2 June and runs until Sunday 30 August. The Sainsbury Centre has been working with Cricoteka, Kraków, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival to develop the exhibition. An Impossible Journey runs concurrently with Take a Look at Me Now: Contemporary Art from Poland. The exhibitions have been developed by the Sainsbury Centre and are part of two UK cultural celebrations this summer; POLSKA! YEAR and Contemporary Art Norwich 09 (CAN09).

Take a Look at Me Now is a new major exhibition featuring 14 artists who are making some of the most exciting work in Poland today.
The exhibition opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, on Tuesday 2 June and runs until Sunday 30 August. Take a Look at Me Now runs concurrently with An Impossible Journey: The Art and Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor.

In April, to mark the 160th anniversary of the death of Poland’s most famous composer, Chopin, the Scottish town, Perth, will resound with Polish classical music: Chopin, Górecki and Szymanowski, as well as jazz, straight from… Bydgoszcz. During yet another edition of the festival Scottish Tides - Polish Spring, we shall have an opportunity to savour music produced by such famous performers as Katia Skanavi, Nikolai Demidenko, Hebrides Ensemble, Sing Sing Penelope and the Pomorska Philharmonic. And during the unusual show The Eastern Diaspora, there will be a chance to explore Scotland and Poland’s shared past.