Media

Image, sound and the memory of the stage

A concert exists in time for only a moment, but photography and film allow us to return to its atmosphere, gesture, instrument and the people present on both sides of the stage. This archive will bring older and newer materials together — without erasing history and without pretending that artistic activity began with contemporary social media.

Edyta Środa in front of Wilanów Palace
Edyta Środa in the surroundings of Wilanów Palace

We are not building a catalogue of ‘the latest posts’. We are building an artistic memory: rich, multifaceted and open to further materials as they are discovered.

Film

Short excerpts from different areas of artistic activity

Recording gives Edyta particular joy: the concentration of a rehearsal then meets the energy of the moment, and music begins to live through images as well. The camera accompanies her at the organ, in historical projects and while working with ensembles — capturing not only the performance, but also gesture, a smile and contact with people.

Organ

Edyta at the organ

An archival excerpt documenting one of the important areas of Edyta’s performing work. The venue and repertoire will be added later.

Eighteenth-century culture

Music within a historical-costume setting

An excerpt from a project in which the musical dimension meets dress, movement, space and a story about the culture of the past.

Grupa RETRO

Contemporary ensemble work

A working excerpt from a performance by Grupa Wokalno-Aktorska RETRO under Edyta’s musical direction.

Wytalentowane MFM

Preparing and directing a performance

A short record of Edyta’s work with young female performers. Details of the event remain to be added later.

Photography

The Artist, instruments, places and successive chapters of the journey

The gallery will not be a closed album. In time, further concert, studio and educational photographs, as well as private archival materials directly connected with musical activity, will be added. Each photograph will retain its own context instead of disappearing into an anonymous grid of thumbnails.

Edyta Środa beside an open historical instrument
The Artist and the interior of an instrument
Edyta Środa in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background
Paris — one of the musical journeys
Edyta Środa playing a green harpsichord
The harpsichord and the colour of the image
Edyta Środa at a red harpsichord
At a red harpsichord
Portrait of Edyta Środa at the harpsichord
Portrait of the Artist and the instrument
Stylised archival image of Edyta Środa in the MusicWorkshop space
MusicWorkshop archive
Gilded decoration of a historical harpsichord
Detail of a historical harpsichord
Edyta Środa during a visit to the Belweder Palace
A contemporary image from the Belweder Palace

Images from a musical journey

Instruments, encounters and places that remain in the memory

The photographs show Edyta amid the different rhythms of artistic life: at historical instruments, between a rehearsal and a concert, in encounters with people from the world of music and on journeys that have been intertwined with her work for years. Sometimes the keyboard and the craftsmanship of the instrument are paramount; at other times, it is the place, the light or a moment of conversation.

Alongside harpsichords and pianos are images from Paris, Wilanów, the Belweder Palace and the everyday life of workshop practice. Together they create a portrait of an Artist curious about the world — a person who listens to sound, people and space, and draws a new musical impulse from every encounter.

Further viewing and listening

From images, you can move on to music, concerts and the story of collaboration