De Balie Podcast

‘Theatre is an experience. A performance is never just an image.’ Łukasz Twarkowski is one of the most compelling theatre makers today, always trying to push the boundaries of the art form. In conversation with Łukasz Twarkowski.At the latest Holland Festival, Łukasz Twarkowski made a strong impression with his overwhelming multidisciplinary production Rohtko, exploring the concept of originality and forgery in the art world, inspired by a fake Mark Rothko sales scandal. In an earlier edition of the festival in 2023, Twarkowski organised with Respublika a six-hour utopian rave Het Parool called ‘an experience like no other’. Twarkowski’s work can rightfully be called groundbreaking.The originally Polish theatre maker creates interdisciplinary performances at the intersection of theatre, video art, and performance art. His work explores major philosophical questions of our time, including human consciousness, the rise of AI, and the place of the human being in the late capitalist