culture

The Neophilology Library invites you to this year's edition of the "Pack a book for the holidays" exhibition.
The exhibition presents bestselling Scandinavian crime novels and other popular publications in Polish and in English, Icelandic, German, Italian and other languages, which can be borrowed for the whole summer holidays! The exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition of quotations and sentences from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries promoting libraries and reading.

The Faculty of Languages and the Neophilology Library invite you to view the exhibition ‘Our Graduates.  People of Philology’ organised on the occasion of the UG World Alumni Convention.  It will be an extraordinary sentimental journey, presenting photographs, notes, notebooks, indexes and other artefacts related to studies, as well as laurels and awards of outstanding Graduates of the Faculty of Languages obtained during their studies and remarkable professional careers.

We invite you to an exhibition of paintings by Maximilian Gral, a student at the University of Gdańsk. The exhibition shows how light - and the lack of it - influences human emotions and feelings. It is a painterly tale of the invisible but deeply felt.
The exhibition can be seen at the UG Main Library from 27 May to 14 June 2025

Join us for a meeting with Brigitte Giraud, a prominent French writer and editor and winner of the Goncourt Prize. In her work, deeply moving, highly personal and at the same time universal, Brigitte Giraud analyses the impact of time, place, political situation, climate, work and social status on human destiny.

The meeting in French will take place on 23 May
at 10.30 a.m. in the Main Library, on the first floor. 

We would like to invite you to an exhibition of paintings by Sahar Mohammad Taghizadeh Poetry on Canvas! presented as part of the BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY 2025 Festival, the official opening of which will take place on 19 May at 5 pm in the UG Main Library.   

The exhibition of paintings by Sahar Mohammad Taghizadeh Poetry on Canvas! is a cross-cultural artistic journey - a fusion of art, language and culture.

We would like to invite you to the exhibition of the participants of the Artistic Workshops of the Gdańsk University of the Third Age under the supervision of Dr Wojciech Zaniewski. The presented works are mainly a review summarising the artistic activity of the students in the academic year 2024/25. 

The exhibition is dominated by classical techniques - pastel, watercolour, acrylic. The set of works is characterised by a variety of approaches to motifs and their subjective interpretation. 

The Neophilology Library invites you to view an exhibition of photographs by the winners of the international student competition ‘Secrets of My Neighbourhood’, relating to the work of Brigitte Giraud, a prominent French writer and editor and winner of the Goncourt Prize. The photographic exhibition, which is located in the main hall of the Neo-Philology building, is accompanied by an exhibition in the Neophilology Library, presenting the figure and creative output of the author, who will be a guest of the Faculty of Philology and the UG Main Library on 23 May.