WRO ART CENTER
Widok 7, Wrocław (Poland)
The WRO Art Center was opened in 2008 by the WRO Center for Media Art Foundation – an independent organization specializing in the areas where contemporary art and culture intersect with developing media. The WRO Art Center, which is supported by the Wrocław Municipal Authorities, is located at Widok 7 (the View St.), in a building that’s partly newly built and partly a renovated historical site: the first electric coffee-roasting plant in Europe – the Otto Stiebler Kaffee Rösterei – opened here in the 90s of the 19th century.
The WRO Art Center’s mission includes organizing exhibitions, screenings, lectures and workshops, and developing projects that encompass art, publishing, education and publicity – all in the realm of contemporary art. The Center’s activities are aimed at a diverse audience: art and media professionals as well as the general public, including children and teenagers. The aim of this multifaceted program is to support art and education, and to promote open international cultural and intellectual discussion via the WRO Media Art Biennale, through the expansion of the highly accessible WRO media archives, through the Center’s collaboration with international art institutions and galleries, and by running an international residency program for artists and curators.
The WRO Art Center shares much of its history with the WRO new-media festivals. From their inception in 1989, the WRO festivals have been dedicated to audiovisual art created using electronic media. Since 1993 the WRO festivals have been held every two years, and in 1995 their name was changes to the WRO Media Art Biennale, with its 21st edition of 2025.
More info: http://wrocenter.pl
WRO Atelier - alternative residency space
Kuznicza 29a, Wroclaw, Poland
WRO Atelier is the seat of the WRO Center for Media Art Foundation. For a decade, there have been the organizational offices of the international WRO Media Art Biennale, an extensive archive of the Biennale works and documentations, and the digitization laboratory; currently, the space serves as a workroom / studio for artists participating in residency programs, a library and a place for classes with students of Art Mediation Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts.
The WRO Foundation has Poland’s most extensive and one of the largest in Europe collection of media works by artists from all over the world. Many years’ activities of WRO (since 1989) have turned Wroclaw to the “capital of new media” in this part of Europe. WRO’s collection is systematically elaborated and made available to the public in the WRO Art Center’s Media Library.
Available facilities for residents of WRO Art Center or WRO Atelier / location depending on the timeframe of the residency stay in Wroclaw
(included for free as a standard):
for WRO Atelier: multifunctional studio space of 45m2 on the 2nd floor of the historical building in the Wroclaw Old Town
for WRO Art Center: multifunctional studio space of 20 m2 located at the headquarters of WRO with the access to the main gallery space (200 m2)
working place equipped with:
table and chairs
computer workstation
monitor
keyboard + mouse
speakers
headphones
projector 16:9 or 4:3
internet access (WLAN, LAN)
access to an online WRO Collection of the Media Library (more than 1500 items)
Additionally, WRO Art Center as a place of production with its own lab and exhibition venue is equipped with a basic set of tools which can be made available for free depending on its current accessibility (daily program activities). The set of equipment includes: cameras, sound equipment, lighting, monitors, projectors, players, postproduction softwares (Adobe Creative Cloud)
In case of any need to use more specialized technical equipment we gladly provide contact to our commercial providers.
