The Potato Library is Warsaw’s first public intersectional library and reading room for art and design research and activism, located in a wooden house in Wolny Jazdów.
We founded the library because we felt that the artistic community lacked access to books and magazines containing the most relevant theories, philosophies, and methodologies that offer alternatives to our world of increased polarisation, colonial violence, and climate breakdown.
The Potato Library is trust-based and has over 600 books for anyone interested in how the creative arts can play a progressive role in society.
It’s by the community, for the community.
Location: Jazdów 10/5, 00-467 (The wooden house opposite the German Embassy)
You can find the full list of the books available here
Potential and Application of Energy Enriched Potatoes by Marcin Pietrucin
Credit: Magdalena Pietrucin
Friends of the Potato Library:
The Nieuwe Instituut, Aksioma: Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 12:15 Publishing, Ujazdowski Castle: Centre for Contemporary Art, Institute for Network Cultures, PUNCH, Krytyka Polityczna, Plurality University, The Institute for Postnatural Studies, SpeculativeEdu, The Modern Institute, Hellebore Magazine, Jeremy Deller, Pleasant Place Magazine, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, The Posthumanist, Robida, Gender and Sexuality Workshop at The Centre for American Studies, Braids Journal, Idea Books, Set Margins’, L x H x B, Valiz, Noemi Biasetton, James Benn, Bęc Zmiana, Wydawnictwo Współbycie, Onomatopee Projects, Faber & Faber, Zofka Kofta, Gavin Murphy, dpr-Barcelona, Fundacja Ocalenie, Zakole, HumDrum Press, Erik Vermeulen, Critical Inquiry Lab, Panther's Paw, Bored Wolves, Disastra Publishing, Le Monde Diplomatique/Paweł Wodzinski, Darja Lukjanenko, NIAiU, Pagowska-Tomaszewski Estate, Noam Youngrak Son, Ringailė Demšytè, Pluto Press, Julia Owczarczak, Bog Bodies Press, Julia Fohs, Katie Zazenski, Paper Cut Issues, Valiz, Natalia Nikoniuk, Jane Withers Studio, Monika Janulevičiūtė, Lost Property Press, Sonia Gorecka, Ruby Stewart-Liberty, Dominika Wasilewska.