

About the Festival
For over a decade, the Synestezje Festival has proven that word, sound, and image share a common ground of artistic experience. We seek creators who see images while composing, hear melody while writing, and sense resonance while painting.
We bring together artists from Poland and abroad, professionals alongside amateurs, across generations and disciplines. Past performers include Kult, Dawid Podsiadło, Maria Peszek, Hey, and Percival Schuttenbach. The festival also hosts a competition for emerging artists, workshops, and exhibitions.
The first edition took place in 2012 under the name Sophiscapes. In 2013 it became Synestezje - a name it carries to this day as a space for experiment, dialogue, and the discovery of unexpected sensory experiences.
Our History
14 years of building bridges between the arts
The birth of an idea
- —Musical guests: Quidam | BOVSKA | The Flower Kings
- —Screening of animations awarded at the International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima
- —Visual design of the concert by Krzysztof Owczarek
- —Live painting to music by Rafał Zawistowski
Festival renamed
- —Musical guests: Dawid Podsiadło | Maria Peszek
- —Meet & greet with Czesław Mozil
First music competition
- —Musical guests: Łąki Łan | Gooral | Hey
- —First edition of the music competition
- —Lecture by Jakub Woynarowski
Panorama Live
- —Musical guests: Republika | Domowe Melodie | Smolik & Kev Fox
- —Live drawing act “Panorama Live” by Anna Krztoń
- —First collaboration with Art Color Ballet
Cinema and animation
- —Musical guests: LemON | Julia Pietrucha | Kortez Trio
- —Screening of animations awarded at the International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima
- —Film screenings: Searching for Sugar Man, Whiplash
Golden Maluch
- —Musical guests: Bovska | Piotr Zioła | Ralph Kaminski | Ania Dąbrowska | Fisz Emade Tworzywo
- —Przemysław TRUST Truściński and his golden Maluch, which became a permanent fixture at Klub Studio
- —Live tattooing: Arkadiusz Szostak, Aleksander Zbraskyi
First visual arts competition
- —Musical guests: SKUBAS | MIKROMUSIC TRIO | Smolik | Bitamina
- —First edition of the visual arts competition
- —Live tattooing: Czarny Zakład (Małgorzata Wielek-Mandrela, Przemysław Wideł)
Catacombs
- —Musical guests: Tymon Tymański & YASSTET | Dikanda & Marko Kukobat and Kroke & Maja Sikorowska | The Dumplings | Mchy i Porosty | Kult
- —First edition featuring exhibitions in the CATACOMBS
- —Gnomes from the comic about the adventures of Johannes Schachmann become a permanent part of Klub Studio
Online edition
- —Musical guests: Skubas | Renata Przemyk i Mężczyźni | Waglewski Fisz Emade | Meek, Oh Why?
- —Online panel discussion: Natalia Orkisz (Box Anima), Leszek Gnoiński, Przemysław Wideł, Łukasz Wiśniewski (Kraków Street Band, Hard Times Trio)
Return to the stage
- —Musical guests: WaluśKraksaKryzys, Baasch & Patryk Pietrzak | Spięty & Nanga | Miuosh
Collaboration with Medicine
- —Musical guests: Kaśka Sochacka | Karaś/Rogucki, Czułe Kontyngenty | Percival Wild Hunt Live METAL
- —Festival collaboration with the Medicine brand to promote the “The Witcher” collection from CDProjekt Red
PO:ŚWIATY
- —Musical guests: Avi | Sarsa + guests, Meek, oh Why? | Porter / Karczewska, Rita Pax: Tribute to Breakout
- —Second collaboration with Art Color Ballet (performance “Tabula Rasa” and exhibition)
- —Special guests: Krzysztof M. Maj, Bez Schematu (Bartosz Filip Malinowski), Czerw Fantastyczny (Dominika Skoczeń)
Fairy Tales
- —Musical guests: LADY PANK | Luxtorpeda + Flapjack | Ania Dąbrowska
- —First academic conference as part of Synestezja
Superstitions
- —Musical guests: Arkadiusz Jakubik | KULT
- —Collaboration with KN LARP
- —Immersive film night
- —First edition of the literary competition
- —Collaboration with the Polish Congress of Game Studies
- —Board game created as part of Synestezja
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