Remember Respond Resist
The Box, Plymouth
When: 04 October 2025 to 11 January 2026
Where: The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX
Time: 10am - 5pm
Cost: Free. No need to book.
Suitable for: Any age
What do we remember from the past? How do we respond to instability? Where can we find resilience and hope in an ever-changing world? This dynamic programme of exhibitions, part of the UK/Poland Season 2025, explores memory, conflict and activism and features the work of 23 different artists.
Born from collaborative dialogue with curators at the Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia (CCA Łaźnia) in Gdańsk, 'Remember Respond Resist' features:
- A showcase of work by 21 internationally acclaimed artists from the British Council Collection, including Henry Moore, Hew Locke, Simon Norfolk, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Andrzej Jackowski.
- Work by two major artists who provide an insight into the social and political worlds of the UK and Poland: Grayson Perry's The Vanity of Small Differences - a series of six acclaimed tapestries created in 2012 that explore British fascination with taste and class, and a series of ten pieces by Polish-born Goshka Macuga that explore ideas of resistance and censorship.
- The first-ever UK showing of Honorata Martin's 2013 film 'Going out into Poland' which records the experiences of the artist after she set off from her apartment in Gdańsk and headed south with neither a plan nor a destination. The film – created several months after she returned home - explores memory and the re-processing of emotions as the shifting perception of lived experience versus what is remembered blur and intertwine.
- A presentation drawn from the archives at The Box that examines the historical and cultural ties between Plymouth and the Polish community.
Find out more about Remember Respond Resist.
Open 10am-5pm Tuesday-Sunday. Closed Mondays, 25 and 26 December and 1 January.
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Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning
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Coastal Threads: Textile Art
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Jyll Bradley: Life and Influences
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Wild
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Remember Respond Resist
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04 October 2025 to 11 January 2026
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