In 2018-2021, the Foundation cooperated in he framework of an international research consortium (associating researchers from Cyprus, Greece, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium and Spain) on a project “Strengthening European integration through the analysis of conflict discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future” (RE-PAST) sposored by the Horizon2020 program, call: H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2016-2017 (Understanding Europe - Promoting the European Public and Cultural Space). The Polish research team consisted of: dr Katarzyna Bojarska (primary investigator, leader of Work Package Art and Culture), dr Piotr Filipkowski (Work Package History), dr hab. Iwona Kurz (Work Package Art and Culture / History), dr Tomasz Rawski (Work Package Media), dr Krzysztof Świrek (Work Package Politics), dr Agata Zborowska (Work Package History), Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek (Work Package History).

In 2017, the Foundation carried out the project “Visual Literacy: How to Think and Act with Images”, funded by the Evens Foundation in Antwerp. As a result, an English-language publication was published, available in print and online at https://issuu.com/evensfoundation/docs/medialiteracy_singlepages, presenting exemplary European activities in the field of visual education.

Katarzyna Bojarska, the editor of the book, was also responsible for the preparation and hosting of the How to Read World with Images – Visual Literacy in the New Media Age panel at the Media Meets Literacy conference in Sarajevo in September 2017. The discussion was attended by: Bojana Piskur (Moderna Galerija Lubljana, Slovenia), Christine Vidal (LeBal, Paris, France), René Glas (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Torsten Arni Caleb Andreasen (Copenhagen University, Denmark).

In 2016, the Foundation received a grant from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to cover part of the costs of translation and editorial work related to the book by Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden, the Netherlands), Criticism as an Intervention: Art, Memory, Affect, which is a selection of critical texts by the author in Polish. The book, edited by Katarzyna Bojarska, was published in the “Hermeneia” series of the Jagiellonian University Publishing House in autumn 2019.

In 2016-2017, at the invitation of Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Krakow, the Foundation conceived a program of three series of film screenings, lectures and discussions as part of the international interdisciplinary project Trauma and Revival, financed from the funds of the “Creative Europe” Program, and organised by the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium) in collaboration with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe, Germany), Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy), Jyväskylä University (Finland), kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Riga, Latvia). From October 2016 to December 2017, eighteen meetings were held to discuss archives, memory and trauma in the work of post-war European artists, as well as in the literature of the period. The protagonists of the meetings included Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Sven Augustijnen, Michael Rothberg, Naeem Mohaiemen, Phil Collins, Chantal Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger.

Detailed programs of the subsequent editions are available on the Bunkier Sztuki website:

• October - December 2016
• March - May 2017
• October to December 2017

As a cooperation within Jasna 10 in 2020-2023, the View Foundation will host a series of seminars, meetings, and lectures on visual culture. We will discuss how images tell and shape the world we live in - and how to influence and change it through images.

Visuality of Social Class - the seminar is organized around texts from two issues of the journal "View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture," devoted to the visuality of social classes. Moderated by Magda Szcześniak and Krzysztof Świrek, PhD https://warszawa.krytykapolityczna.pl/dzialanie/wizualnosc-klas-spolecznych/

Widokówki (Points of view) - a series of meetings focusing on different aspects of visual culture, inspired by the texts published in the journal. https://warszawa.krytykapolityczna.pl/dzialanie/widokowki/

Why pictures? is a long-term artistic and research project. Its originators and curators, Witek Orski and Krzysztof Pijarski http://www.whypictures.net/

Reading Debord. Virtual seminar on "The Society of the Spectacle" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2XYcdstSZe7zZe6v7ZVbA

Grant under the programme ‘Support for activities promoting Polish language and culture around the world’ obtained by the Foundation from the Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe Institute for the Development of the Polish Language. Principal Investigator: Agata Zborowska, PhD (University of Chicago)

The project concerns historical amateur films recorded in analogue technology (on film or magnetic tape) by the Polish community in Chicago between 1950 and 2000. Dr Agata Zborowska conducts research, selects and digitises materials from private archives, makes historical amateur films of the Polish community in Chicago available on the internet, and compiles and makes available a film report from a meeting after the screening of selected films in November and December 2024 in Chicago. The project accompanies Dr Zborowska's larger research undertaking, Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago.

Historically, Chicago has been the most important destination for Poles migrating to the United States since the late 19th century. To this day, the city is home to one of the largest Polish diasporas in the United States. As a result, Chicago, commonly referred to as ‘American Warsaw,’ is one of the most important centres of Polish culture outside the country. As researchers argue, ‘it is impossible to fully understand the history of Poland without taking into account the role of Poles in emigration. Conversely, it is impossible to fully understand Polish Chicago and Polish America without knowing Polish history’ (Dominic A. Pacyga). See: https://www.allarvickfund.org/polish-chicago-home-movies-and-oral-histories

Cooperation with the Photography Center of the Museum of Warsaw as part of a project devoted to photo albums, related to the exhibition Lovely Is the Youth of Our Age. Photo Albums 1850–1950 and the international academic conference Photo album. Practice, metaphor, context. Preparation of a thematic issue of a magazine serving as part of a research and exhibition project related to the subject of photo albums. Year 2024.