A moving piece of art.
Featured in the Poznan Daily Spring Edition — available now in 100+ cafés, bars, restaurants and hotels across the city — Cosmino Theatre feels less like traditional theatre and more like stepping into a living, moving piece of art.
For anyone who missed the paper edition, here’s a closer look online at one of Poznań’s most intriguing alternative cultural projects.
Tucked into the city’s quieter creative current, Cosmino Theatre exists somewhere between performance, movement, music and visual storytelling. Moving between Poznań, Berlin and London, the collective doesn’t operate like a fixed institution — it shifts, evolves and changes depending on the people and spaces around it.
Founded and led by Rachel Karafistan and Kuba Pierzchalski, Cosmino builds performances collaboratively rather than through traditional scripts. The result feels raw, atmospheric and deeply human.
Kuba Pierzchalski — who also performed with the Blue Man Group in Berlin — brings a strong physical intensity and rhythm-driven energy to the collective’s work, shaping performances that rely just as much on movement and presence as dialogue.
Themes like identity, migration, memory and women’s rights often surface naturally through the performances, explored through an experimental style that feels intimate, emotional and constantly evolving.
In Poznań, Cosmino appears across cultural centres, festivals and temporary spaces rather than one permanent home. That fluidity has become part of the project’s DNA — every performance feels alive, unfinished in the best possible way, as if it’s still transforming in front of you.
Beyond performances, the collective also runs workshops that invite participants directly into the creative process. These aren’t traditional classes — they’re collaborative spaces focused on experimentation, movement and exploration.
This July, Cosmino will also host workshops at Teatr Ósmego Dnia for those wanting to experience the process first-hand.
In a city increasingly driven by fast content and loud trends, Cosmino Theatre quietly does the opposite. International yet deeply rooted in alternative culture, experimental yet personal — it remains one of Poznań’s most fascinating projects slightly outside the frame of the mainstream.
And honestly? We love that.
