On 14 October 2026, Polish Performance in Paris: A Collective Anti-Portrait, the second edition of an international project initiated by the FRSK Foundation, will take place at Le Générateur in Gentilly, Paris, as part of FRASQ #18, an international festival dedicated to contemporary performance.
Following its debut in Porto, the project brings four Polish artists — Kuba Falk, Paweł Sakowicz, Iza Szostak and Marta Ziółek — to Paris, presenting four new performances created specifically for this edition. Rather than defining Polish performance through a single aesthetic or shared theme, the project embraces the idea of a “collective anti-portrait”: a constellation of distinct artistic practices that coexist without losing their individual identities.
Each artist approaches the body and performance from a different perspective. In Children of Saturn, Kuba Falk explores queer memory, ageing and visibility, examining the relationship between physical presence and moving images. Paweł Sakowicz’s Katarakta investigates choreography as a practice of attention and reorientation, with movement responding to sound, light, space and the audience. In MINGLE, Iza Szostak considers the body as a space of exchange, exploring proximity, touch, care and interdependence. Marta Ziółek’s GAZE. Unruly Pleasure brings together gaze, voice and pleasure to investigate agency and the relationships that emerge between bodies.
Together, the four works form a temporary artistic community shaped by difference, dialogue and experimentation. Rather than offering a unified representation of contemporary Polish performance, the project opens up a space in which diverse approaches to movement, image, voice and audience engagement can be experienced alongside one another.
The Paris edition is accompanied by a newly published bilingual Polish–French catalogue, which introduces the artists’ practices, presents selected works from their previous projects and outlines the concepts behind the new performances. The publication also features Ewa Opałka’s essay The Body after the Performative Turn, situating the project within a broader reflection on the transformations of contemporary Polish performance art.
Contemporary Lynx is a media partner of the event.
