Metamorfoza

Artists: Adam i Dyba Lach, Diana Lelonek, Karol Szymkowiak, Anna Zagrodzk

From June 5, the Belfast Photo Festival 2025 will showcase works by Polish artists Diana Lelonek, Anna Zagrodzka, Karol Szymkowiak, and Dyba & Adam Lach. A series of exhibitions, events, and screenings that explore the evolving landscape of Polish ecology and society will be presented under the title “Metamorfoza.” The collection, staged in key locations across Belfast city centre, is made possible through the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in partnership with Fotofestiwal Łódź. These events are part of the UK/Poland Season 2025. 

Belfast Photo Festival 2025—“Biosphere” edition 
The Belfast Photo Festival is the largest international festival of photography and visual culture in Great Britain and Ireland. This year’s 11th edition, held under the theme “Biosphere,” will present the work of a diverse group of artists across ten exhibitions and more than twelve events in Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland. 

Several of the exhibitions are the result of collaborations between photographers—including Polly Garnett, Joe Laverty, Yvette Monahan, Chad Alexander, and Helio León—and environmental organisations and local communities in Northern Ireland. The artists aim to visualise the fragility and beauty of the region’s natural heritage, with a particular focus on Lough Neagh, the peatlands, marine areas, the Belfast Hills, and the temperate rainforests. 

The festival offers an opportunity to explore a diverse range of works and projects that interrogate how we perceive and inhabit the Earth. The exhibitions, situated in public spaces across Belfast and beyond, will run from June 5 to 30 2025. They will be accompanied by a programme of partner exhibitions, talks, workshops, and screenings. The Belfast Photo Festival is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Fluxus, and Alexander Boyd Displays.    

Metamorfoza: questions about a dynamically changing environment 
“Metamorfoza” is a series of exhibitions, events, and film screenings featuring works by Polish artists—Diana Lelonek, Anna Zagrodzka, Karol Szymkowiak, and Dyba and Adam Lach—on view as part of the Belfast Photo Festival from June 5 2025. “Metamorphosis” is supported by Fotofestiwal Łódź. 

UK/Poland Season 2025—a new chapter in relations between Poland and the UK 
The UK/Poland Season 2025 features over one hundred events across film, theatre, visual arts, design, literature, and music, taking place in dozens of cities throughout Poland, Great Britain, and Northern Ireland.  The Polish programme launched on 5 March in Łódź with the exhibition “St Ives and Elsewhere”, while the British season was inaugurated on 6 March during the Kinoteka Festival at the BFI Southbank  in London. The programme will run until the end of November 2025. Its aim is to stimulate dialogue, deepen cooperation, and strengthen artistic and social ties. 

Events in Poland are organised and financed by the British Council, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the Polish Cultural Institute. TheBritish Council is also responsible for the programme in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The organisation of the Season in Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been supported by Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.