Sonics & Scenics

Festival of sound arts and artist film

26 June – 21 September
with programme of public events from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 June

Over the summer months the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw will resonate with sonic landscapes, songs, incantations, stories, echoes, acoustic shadows and conversations during a festival of sound arts and artist film focusing on the invisible waves shaping the experience of places and underpinning the image-centred culture in which we live. 

The programme curated and produced collaboratively by The Wapping Project, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, brings together interventions, installations, performances, screenings and discussions, including a series of newly commissioned works in sound arts by artists working in Poland and the UK. 

Barbara Kinga Majewska and Una Lee will create paths for the museum’s audio-guide taking listeners on sonic journeys through concrete and imaginary staircases and passageways. Nikki Sheth will bring the soundscapes of the iconic summer house of the architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen in Szumin into the foyer of the museum through an immersive eight-channel sound installation composed of nocturnal field recordings, while Aleksandra Słyż will rattle the new concrete of the building with scores for the venerable synthesisers of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio. And Chu-Li Shewring will infest the tower leading to the cinema with screeching and buzzing of a chorus of human and insect voices humming in harmony and dissonance. 

The festival, presented by The Wapping Project, London, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN), forms part of the UK/Poland Season 2025 and is generously supported by the British Council.