A Kanye West concert scheduled to take place in a stadium in Poland in was cancelled by the venue on Friday, following condemnation in the country of antisemitic remarks by the US rapper.
“The concert by Ye (Kanye West), scheduled for 19 June 2026 at the Superauto.pl Silesian Stadium, will not take place due to formal and legal reasons,” venue director Adam Strzyzewski announced in a press release on the stadium’s website.
The Polish culture ministry previously said in a statement, received by AFP, that it was seeking to bar West from performing in the country.
Marta Cienkowska, Poland’s culture and heritage minister, had described the decision to book West as “unacceptable”.
It comes days after West postponed a gig in France and a week after the UK banned him from entering the country to headline Wireless Festival.
In February last year, West started selling swastika T-shirts, prompting the commerce platform Shopify to take down his web store.
Three months later, he released the track Heil Hitler, in which he claimed a child custody battle and the freezing of his financial assets turned him towards Nazism.
In January, prior to the announcement of his European tour and the release of his latest album, the rapper apologised for his actions in a statement published as a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal.
“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” he wrote. “I love Jewish people.”
