Lamella the house of queer arts

Lamella is a nonstationary house/home for queer arts based in Cracow, Poland. It is an artist-run, friendship-based collective that fertilizes the artistic, social and cultural growth of Cracow's LGBTQAI+++ community, founded in 2016 by Vala Tomasz Foltyn. It performs its mission by presenting, exhibiting, producing and documenting works of queer/feminist artists, activists and makers.

Lamella supports the growth of culturally diverse queer art events in Cracow. Lamella seeks to safeguard spaces for reflecting on queer identity and engages in the process of political, cultural and sexual liberation. As a friendship-based collective/enviroment they are interested in developing alternative forms of feminist and queer practices, as well as international tools for art and community making, as a response to hyper capitalistic notions of exclusion, productivity and labour.

Lamella collaborated with Ania Nowak, Roni Katz, female trouble collective, Paulina Ołowska, Anna Bella Geiger, Księgarnia|Wystawa, Marta Sala, Francesco Bevilaqua, Gustavo C. Nogueira, Amanda Wieczorek, Martyna Borowiecka, David Pearl, Bartolomeo Koczenasz, Justyna Stasiowska, Rosemary Hannon, Miriam Wolodarski, Rowland Byass, Antonio da Silva, Rafael Medina, Wojciech Grudziński, Magda Wajda, Aneta Żukowska, Marta Szarzyńska, Agata Stańczak, Elżbieta Suchecka, Patrycja Gotszling, Aleskandra Skorek, Klaudyna Schubert, Magda Urbańska, Wodna Masa Krytyczna, Krakow Art House, Adam Gruba, Aleksandra Młynarczyk, Śominika Dniegocka, TERAZ Poliż, Platform_blind spot, Ivan Isaev, Kamil Kuitkowski, Lucyna Shefter Gallery, UNSOUND festival, Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS, Lava Film Festival, Ness - reatreat for queer man, Paweł Korbus, Michał Sypień, Maque Pereyra, Pauline Peyem, Agata Siniarska, Stan Barański.