Sacrum Profanum 2025

“Sacrum Profanum continues to build bridges between aesthetics, art disciplines and communities, focusing on the meaning and different interpretations of the festival's name. This year, the event places a particular focus on improvisation, collaboration, using intuition, acting with intent, interaction with the work and inspiration. We are envisaging activities combining music with theatre, performance, literature and art, which extend into the public space (site-specific projects) as well as a community concert. Instead of events or concerts, we want to createexperiences that cross the boundaries of music. We focus on nature, memory, presence, self-care and - above all - time.We partner with MOCAK and the Eufonie Festival (National Centre for Culture) to once again use Konrad Smoleński's acclaimed sound installationEverything Was Forever Until It Was No More, which represented Poland at the Venice Biennial in 2013. We are going to do it in a sustainable manner, guided by the idea of artistic ecology and the restoration of important existing works. Smoleński’s piece consists of two bronze bells, the ringing of which is recorded and processed electronically and then played back through walls of loudspeakers. An important element of the installation is the vibrating floor, which also provides a stage for concerts that interact with the installation. Breaking down stereotypes and expectations, the artist creates a sphere of experience for the invited musicians and audiences. The boundaries between the music stage and the art space are blurred.INSTAIMPROVISATIONS is the main concert series of this year's edition, which will interact with Smoleński's installation in the form of improvisations. Among the artists and composers attending the festival, we select a pair of artists for each day who had never worked with each other before and invite them to improvise in the interior and interfere with Smoleński's sound piece. Among them are Polish saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski