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Exhibition: Between/Inter by Basia Sokołowska
Between/Inter by Basia Sokołowska is the title of an exhibition prepared as part of the Vintage Photo Festival at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Museum (M. Rapacki Square), the opening of which will take place on October 10, 2025, at 3:00 PM.
The exhibition will feature 30 photographs by Basia Sokołowska from four series: Interior/Apartment (1993), Beyond Surface (1994), Ars Moriendi (1998), and Tissues/Adaptation (2005). The works draw on the tradition of still life and explore the duality of the world of dreams and reality, crossing internal barriers and maturing, transience, the cyclical nature of life and death, and adaptation on many levels and in many contexts. They reveal the transformations taking place in the artist's life and psyche, the multi-layered nature of the world around her. Veiled and mysterious, they evoke curiosity and anxiety, resonating. They engage emotionally and physically. They create a mood, are honest, and open to interpretation. The artist uses collage techniques, creates spatial photographic compositions, highlights detail, color, and texture, and stages them.
All works in the exhibition are a gift from Basia Sokołowska to the University Museum in Toruń. The exhibition will be on view until February 13, 2026.
What do we wish for?
‘What do we wish for?’ is the title of a Christmas exhibition prepared by the Department of Graphic Design at Nicolaus Copernicus University, which will be on display in front of the Collegium Maximum building. The official opening of the poster exhibition is scheduled for 19 November at 11:30 a.m. at the University Museum in Toruń.
Students and lecturers from the Department of Graphic Design have prepared a series of posters that refer to one of the most characteristic Christmas traditions - making wishes. The entire exhibition is a collection of different voices, and each work is like a mirror, reflecting what we really want for ourselves. It reminds us that sometimes the best wishes are those that begin with ourselves.
The new exhibition continues the idea of the previous exhibition entitled ‘Everyone has their own Toruń’, which was very well received by the residents of Toruń and tourists. The works will be on display at Rapacki Square until 2 February 2026.
In the photo: Poster by Amelia Wilms, a student at the Department of Graphic Design at Nicolaus Copernicus University – one of the works that will appear in the exhibition ‘What do we wish for?’.
'Palimpsest of Memory' - exhibition
The Faculty of Fine Arts invites you to a solo exhibition by Szymon Pruciak, an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer at the American University of Cyprus. The opening of ‘Palimpsest of Memory’ will take place on 11 December at 12:00 noon at Gallery 9.39 (Szosa Bydgoska 50/56).
In 1878, British photographer John Thomson captured Cyprus through a colonial lens, giving the island a picturesque and ‘semi-oriental’ character. The ‘Palimpsest of Memory’ project revisits these photographs, using artificial intelligence to explore how machines inherit and reproduce this way of seeing. Generative artificial intelligence recreates Thomson's scenes from within, imagining perspectives that correspond to the imperial camera. The resulting images are realised using historical 19th-century photographic methods, combining digital speculation with the earliest chemistry of photography.
The project draws on Walter Benjamin's reflections on mechanical reproduction and analyses them for the algorithmic age, in which images are created from data rather than light. In dialogue with Edward Said, Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, the work treats vision as a shared, entangled act of man and machine. It encourages viewers to re-examine how technologies of vision shape history — and to imagine a future in which the very act of looking becomes an ethical practice.
The exhibition will be open until the end of January 2026.
Szymon Pruciak is a visual artist and lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the American University of Cyprus. He works with photography, film and video, using both historical photographic techniques and new media. His works have been presented at dozens of group and solo exhibitions in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Some of his works are also part of the French National Collection.
Exhibition ‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’
The Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University invites you to the exhibition ‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’ by Satabdi Hati. The opening will take place on 14 January 2026 at 5 p.m. at the Dworzec Zachodni ACKiS Od Nowa Gallery (Gagarina 37a Street in Toruń).
‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’ combines works created as a result of the artist's many years of travelling through different countries, cultures and emotional landscapes. Handmade Nepalese Lokta paper, charcoal, hemp fibre, ink, coffee, dry leaves and tea stains create an organic language of forms, balancing between the real and the imagined. In her latest works, the artist also uses inks prepared by hand from avocado skins, beetroots and oak acorns, deepening her relationship with matter and the natural world.
An important element of the exhibition is language, present in many versions: Bengali, Polish, English, Hindi, Sanskrit and French. It becomes a landscape of transition, in which words such as ‘home,’ ‘unknown’, and ‘life’ form a poetic map of experiences of migration, rootedness and transformation.
This series was strongly influenced by the quiet, grey mornings of the Polish winter, slowing down the creative process and directing it towards intuition. Here, paper becomes a space for reflection, confirming Anne Frank's words that ‘paper has more patience than people’.
The exhibition is part of the artist's doctoral research on the use of natural materials in contemporary art. It is an invitation to pause and reconnect with nature and with the inner, silent landscapes that each of us carries within ourselves.
The exhibition will run until 18 March 2026. The curator of the exhibition is Dr Katarzyna Łyszkowska, professor at the Department of Drawing at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
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Erosion of Scientific Integrity - lecture
The NCU Faculty of Chemistry invites everyone to an open lecture entitled "Erosion of Scientific Integrity Fueled by Quantitative Evaluation Metrics," to be delivered by Johannes Gierschner (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies – IMDEA Nanoscience), as part of the Faculty Seminar series. The lecture will take place on February 2 at 11:30 in the Faculty of Chemistry Library.
In his lecture, the speaker will address the highly topical and important issue of the erosion of scientific integrity resulting from excessive reliance on quantitative metrics in research evaluation. The talk will cover phenomena such as citation gaming, citation cartels, hyperauthorship, and the impact of a metrics-centred evaluation system on research quality, academic culture, and scholarly communication.
The lecture will also be available online via Microsoft Teams (Meeting ID: 396 470 448 671 49, Access code: b4q6ox3X).
Following the lecture, participants are warmly invited to an informal discussion with the speaker over coffee and cake.
The lecture abstract and a short CV of the speaker
Anniversary with a bang
On the occasion of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the NCU Alumni Programme, on Saturday, 7 February, the Academic Centre for Culture and Art ‘Od Nowa’ will host ‘Absolwencka potupaja’, a dance party with attractions. The event programme includes the premiere of the film ‘Na absolwenckich orbitach’ (‘In Graduate Orbits’) and a memory contest.
The anniversary event refers to the dances organised a decade ago to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. This time, Bartek Chodorowski, a graduate of sociology at NCU and former editor of Radio Sfera, will take the participants on a nostalgic musical journey. An additional attraction is the opportunity to request your favourite hits with a special dedication.
Submit a song with a dedication
Admission to the event is free, but due to the limited number of places, registration and admission are required upon presentation of an invitation. Invitations can be reserved using the form and will be available for collection from 7 to 23 January 2026 at the Alumni Programme office (ul. Reja 25, Toruń) during opening hours. Uncollected invitations will be distributed among those on the reserve list. Graduates may bring one accompanying person.
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