Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie

On 2 June, the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw hosted Maria Hansen, Executive Director of ELIA – the European League of Institutes of the Arts. ELIA is a European network with a global reach, connecting more than 280 arts institutions across dozens of countries and representing nearly 300,000 students from every artistic discipline. For over thirty years, it has been one of the leading platforms for international collaboration and exchange in arts education.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution was born at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw that transformed the language of global art. The exhibition “SOFT POWER. The Warsaw Origins of the Polish School of Textile Art” brings together the historical roots of this revolution with the latest works by contemporary artists, raising questions about the continuity of ideas, the power of textile as a medium, and its significance in the contemporary world.

The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in partnership with HERMÈS, invites students of the Faculty of Painting, Graphic Arts and Design to design a postcard.

On Friday, 16 January 2026, a special event took place in the Aula of the Academy of Fine Arts at 37/39 Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie. Lecturers from the Italian Poliarte University in Ancona presented the project LAND OF SYMPHONY – AN ITALIAN DESIGN STORY. As part of the project, they spoke about Italian cinema, scenography, and design.

On September 3–5, 2025, at the invitation of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the meeting of the Board of the Cumulus Association was held at the Czapski Palace. The Association brings together 395 art and design universities from 71 countries worldwide.

From October 11, 2024 to March 30, 2025 the Czapski Palace will host an exhibition of photographs from the collection of the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – "And Now Photography". The exhibition includes both artistic photographs taken from the 1930s to the 21st century, as well as archival photographs relating to the life of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. For the first time, photographs constituting an important part of the collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Warsaw, will be shown to the general public.