Avant Art Festival 2026 WARSAW
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þri. 15.09.2026 19:00
The Warsaw edition of the Avant Art Festival will kick off on September 15 at the Polish Radio Concert Studio. The main part of the program will last six days, but it won’t be confined to a single venue. Concerts, exhibitions, films, and performances will take place in the radio hall, theaters, museums, galleries, clubs, and independent venues. The Warsaw edition will culminate with a concert by Krallice on October 11.
The festival will open with OSMIUM—a collaborative project by Hildur Guðnadóttir, James Ginzburg, Rully Shabara, and Sam Slater. Each brings their own approach to composition, electronics, voice, and sound. However, the aim is not to combine these elements into a single, recognizable form. OSMIUM remains in constant motion, building tension between voice, electronics, and the physicality of sound.
The musical portion of the program brings together very different approaches to sound. The long-form improvisation of The Necks, Mopcut featuring MC Däleka, the Ahmed [Ahmed] quartet revisiting the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and the contemporary electronic music of feeo. Ecko Bazz and STILL, as well as a collaboration between ||ALA|MEDA|| and Noums Dembele. Here, tradition is not a fixed repertoire. It becomes material that can be transformed, deconstructed, and reassembled.
The Indonesian scene also plays an important role. Senyawa will perform as a duo, while Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi will showcase their individual practices through performance, workshops, film, and an audiovisual project.
The Warsaw edition goes beyond concerts. The “Automotive” exhibition at Stroboskop Space, events at the Center for Contemporary Art (CSW) Ujazdowski Castle and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as projects combining music and performance, showcase various facets of this year’s program.
Flytjendur
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Hildur GuðnadóttirHátíðarlistamaður Listahátíðar í Reykjavík 2026, syngur og leikur á selló.
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Grischa LichtenbergerRA: Resident Advisor
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Ryosuke KiyasuRyosuke Kiyasu is an internationally acclaimed snare drum soloist, active since 2003.
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SenyawaSenyawa is an experimental music duo made up of Rully Shabara (extended vocal technique) and Wukir Suryadi (homemade instrument) based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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feeo”A kind of emotive synethesia, her twilight musings cast introversion out on to the listening world” - CLASH