About
The East of Culture – Different Sounds festival (2-5 July, Lublin) is not only about concerts, but also about encounters with visual art and photography. This year’s exhibition programme includes a presentation of the poetry of Lithuanian artist Benediktas Januševičius, a comprehensive retrospective of works by the Kraków-based artist Piotr Marek, and an open-air exhibition of photographs by Wiktor Wołkow.
This is the 19th edition of Different Sounds, organised by Workshops of Culture in Lublin, and the 13th edition held as part of East of Culture – a project implemented by the National Centre for Culture with funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and jointly organised by three cities in eastern Poland – Lublin, Białystok, and Rzeszów.
Art exhibitions
Wiktor Wołkow | outdoor photography exhibition
When: July 1-31, 2026, available 24 hours a day
Where: the Hartwig Alley
Admission free
The exhibition presents black-and-white photographs by Wiktor Wołkow taken between 1977 and 1979, a period of particular importance in the artist’s work, when he documented the landscape, nature, and everyday life of Podlasie with extraordinary sensitivity. The photographs depict a world frozen in time: places, people, and nature that today often exist only in memories and in photographic frames.
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The work of Wiktor Wołkow is something more than documentation of reality. It is a story about the deep bond between human beings and nature, about an attentive gaze at the surrounding world, and about the ability to perceive beauty in its simplicity. His photographs create a unique visual archive of Podlasie: a record of the natural and cultural landscape of the region, which has undergone changes over the years.
Today, the artist’s legacy is collected and presented by the Wiktor Wołkow Museum of Photography in Turośń Kościelna – a branch of the Podlaskie Museum opened in March 2024. The museum’s patron, the most outstanding photographic artist of the Podlasie region, left behind several tens of thousands of negatives and transparencies, as well as hundreds of photographs. The museum not only preserves this extraordinary heritage but also introduces visitors to the natural and cultural richne