magic carpets

The Wrocław Institute of Culture invites artists to participate in an international artist residency organized as part of the MagiC Carpets platform. The stay in Wrocław will be an opportunity for in-depth research and artistic work based on dialogue and co-creation with the local Korean community.

We are interested in artistic practices that go beyond ready-made forms and focus on the process: attentive listening, building relationships, and searching for meaning together. The residency is an invitation to work in an urban context—in spaces visited daily by the Korean community—and to reflect on the visibility of minorities, migration, and the memory of place.

The Korean community, although still not very visible, is an important part of this urban mosaic. The MagiC Carpets residency in Wrocław aims to create a space for meeting, getting to know each other, and working together artistically, which can contribute to building a more open and inclusive city.

The residency in Wrocław will be a continuation of last year’s AIR Wro activities, to which our curator Paulina Brelińska-Garsztka invited two artists: Marina Pietrocola and Mariam Giunashvili. Both artists worked on parallel projects, observing the life of the Korean minority. Combining documentary photography with social practices, they spent a month building relationships with a community that is invisible on a daily basis.