Ceremonial Inauguration of the Academic Year 2025/2026

The Rector and the Senate
of the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan have the honour to invite to the ceremonial inauguration of the academic year 2025/2026

October 9, 2025, at 11:00 AM
Atrium, UAP, 23 Lutego 20 Str.

CEREMONY PROGRAM:

• National Anthem
• Address by the Rector of UAP, Prof. Maciej Kurak, PhD,
• Gaude Mater Polonia
• Addresses by invited guests
• Ceremony of awarding the honorary doctorate to Ms Ewa Partum
• Presentation of medals and distinctions
• Speech by a representative of the UAP Student Government
• Matriculation of first-year students
• Inaugural lecture delivered by Dr h.c. Ewa Partum
• Gaudeamus Igitur

ACCOMPANYING EVENTS:

Artistic PRESENCE of Ewa Partum
Exhibition opening, 1:30 PM
Nowa Scena Gallery, UAP, 28 Marcinkowskiego Ave.

Robert Gogol | ISSET
Exhibition accompanying the 20th International Symposium
on Sound Engineering and Design
Duża Scena Gallery, UAP, 24 Wodna Str.

Textile Composition | 5th Biennale of Textile Art in Poznan
Artists: Natalia Brodacka, Kinga Popiela, Małgorzata Szymankiewicz
Szewska 16 Gallery, 16 Szewska Str.

GAZING | Small Textile Form
5th Biennale of Textile Art in Poznan
Curators’ Lab Gallery, 12 Nowowiejskiego Str.

Digital Sculpture – Digitisation of the Small Sculptural Form
Presentation of a new field of study
Piętro_2.0 Gallery, 29 Marcinkowskiego Ave., Building A, 2nd floor

CONFERENCE

(Un)mapping Infrastructures of Modern Art, IV:
Infrastructures of Supporting Travels and Exhibiting Modernism Transnationally (1940s–1990s)

An international event organised by the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, the University of Zurich, and the National Museum in Poznan, with support from the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

October 8–10
Venues: National Museum in Poznan, 9 Marcinkowskiego Ave.
and Art Loft, 28 Marcinkowskiego Ave., UAP, Building H