Materia Concept Store / Box Office / “Dosłowna” Bookshop
The “Materia” Concept Store is a unique place where the ideas of Polish and local creators, artists, and craftspeople materialize in the form of unique objects.
Our goal is to create a space that offers unique products in the fields of art and design, and serves as a venue for meetings, lectures, and workshops, promoting knowledge in these fields.
Where beauty meets utility
Materia offers a wide selection of extraordinary products that delight with their aesthetics and tells the story of local culture and heritage. The shelves are filled with unique items that make perfect gifts for both yourself, and your loved ones.
Inspiring Meetings and Workshops
Materia Concept Store is not just a store; it’s also a space for creative self-expression. We organize meetings about art and design to encourage conversation, and inspire new ideas. Our workshops offer participants the opportunity to become creators and discover the secrets of creating beautiful things under the watchful eye of experienced instructors.
Supporting Polish Creators
We are proud to support local and Polish creators. At Materia Concept Store, we support the development of creativity and, together, create a space where art and design become accessible to everyone.
Materia Concept Store is a place that aims to inspire, support local creativity, and connect people with a passion for beauty and design. Come visit our store and experience a world where matter becomes art, and ideas move from thought to reality.
Materia Concept Store joined Centre for Culture’s Box Office and “Dosłowna” Bookshop to become one, in shared space.
“Materia” Concept Store’s Facebook page
The furniture design was created by Lublin-based brand LCUTLIGHTDESIGN in the Parametric Design style. This style utilizes advanced, modern algorithmic design methods to combine sophisticated visual forms with functionality. Combined with refined natural materials, a unique product with an organic character was created. All furnishings were developed in accordance with the conceptual goals of the location and the name itself – Materia – and were executed in a cohesive and interconnected style. The logo was created by Kamil Filipowski.
Cinema
Centre for Culture’s Cinema offers a diverse program, including Polish and international premieres, the latest films presented at international festivals, documentaries, and thematic series. The emphasis is on original programming and arthouse cinema.
The Cinema is equipped with latest solutions in film screening. Laser cinema projector with the necessary accessories enables the presentation of films in 4K quality and seamless connection to film distributors’ servers. Together with the new, widescreen cinema screen, adapted to display the highest resolution images, the cinema offers high quality of image and sound.
Additionally, the Cinema offers a audio description reception system, in particular during screening of films with additional accessibility tools for people with disabilities.
The project is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
Basement of the Centre for Culture
The renovation of the Cultural Center’s basement has created spaces with a usable area of 867 m², including multimedia studios, recording and production studios, graphic arts studio, film, animation, and photography studios, technical facilities, and a presentaiton space with a total area for concerts, performances, and meetings.
The Fab Lab serves as a creative and educational space for exploring creative solutions in the field of new technologies and their combination with traditional methods.
The multimedia zone allows advanced experiments with sound, its creation, processing, recording, and sharing.
The performance and club space are designed for the presentation of small-scale musical events, theatrical forms, and meetings. It is also connected to the multimedia studio which allows direct online broadcasts. This also allows for professional audiovisual recording of events and their subsequent use.
Dosłowna Bookshop
A literal is the first author’s bookshop in Lublin. Its idea refers to the tradition of iconic bookshops that until recently could be found in every city.
In Dosłowna you will find books from almost all major Polish publishers. Our shelves are filled with rich collections of fiction, reportage, books for children, but also fiction and the most interesting titles in the field of social sciences. We have also collected an interesting antiquarian collection – pre-war magazines and historical editions of literary classics.
Meeting with invited authors and poets you will contribute to creating Dosłowna with us. The interior of the bookstore was designed by Robert Kuśmirowski – one of the most successful Polish artists – it refers to the past of the Centre for Culture’s building.
Opening hours:
Mon – Fri: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Sat: 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
tel: 81 466 61 34
e-mail: ksiegarnia@ck.lublin.pl
The Book Institute’s “Certificate for Small Bookstores” program awarded PLN 30,000 in financial support to Dosłowna Bookshop for promotional activities, legal services, and the purchase of essential bookstore equipment and furnishings.
Centralna Cafe
In our building you can find an excellent cafe offering the highest quality speciality coffee. The menu also includes local craft beers, selected wines, and sweet and salty snacks.
Centralna is a modern and friendly space located in the very centre of the city – a meeting and workplace, which turns into an intimate bar every evening and complements our cultural offer.
Regardless of you are looking for a place for your morning coffee, would like to enjoy a glass of wine before one of our events, or simply spend an evening with friends – Centralna is for you.
In the summer, we invite you to Wirydarz / the Inner Courtyard.
Opening hours:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Sun: 9.30 am – 10.00 pm
Thu, Fri, Sat: 9.30 am – 23.00 pm
Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives “Crossroads”
The Centre is an institution that initiates, creates and supports creative searches, and its interests relate to traditional and contemporary music, performative and visual arts. “Crossroads” is looking for a contemporary listener and viewer, new dimensions of art, and place music and visual arts in the cultural space and social contexts of Lublin. The institution organizes, among others KODY Music Tradition and Avant-garde Festival, Open City Art Festival in Public Space, International Festival of the Oldest Songs of Europe and other cultural events. It has been operating since 2008.
Hieronim Łopaciński Municipal Public Library, Branch No 2
The Library has an extensive collection of books and audiobooks as well as a wide selection of current magazines. In the library you can also use the Internet free of charge with the help of an assistant (e.g. for seniors). The branch organizes exhibitions, lectures, meetings with authors and readers, as well as concerts and film screenings. Regular library lessons, art classes, mornings and evenings of fairy tales, and other activities for children, teenagers and adults are held here. There are also specially prepared programs for senior citizens and people with disabilities.
Opening hours:
Mon, Wed, Fri: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Tue, Thu: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Sun: 9.00 am – 2.00 pm
Art Brut Gallery
The gallery was established to promote the art of the excluded. The amateur works of art brut naive painting and sculpture presented in it allow you to discover new and original artists who are outside the main, recognized directions of art. In this way, the gallery influences the current state of art brut, which is unknown, properly appreciated, different from traditional art, and (although it represents a high level) is rarely made available to the public. The gallery helps artists whose images often circulate in an environment assigned to therapy/rehabilitation.
Opening hours:
Tue – Fri: 2.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Sat: 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm
