The art gallery movement in Poland. A historical outline. Cover Image

RUCH GALERYJNY W POLSCE. ZARYS HISTORYCZNY.
The art gallery movement in Poland. A historical outline.

Author(s): Łukasz Guzek
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
Keywords: ephemeral art; Wschodnia Gallery; performance art; documented art

Summary/Abstract: The gallery movement was in fact an art institution in Poland. The movement created its own art world based on the principles of self-organisation and self-study. People who participated in it were artists, art professionals and art lovers, altogether so called ‘conducive people’. Around each of such institutions its circles emerged – communities that co-operated with each other within the town, the country or internationally. This is how the network of personal ties as well as artistic influences appeared. A formal-artistic feature of the movement was the great number of various action art forms or, more broadly – art based on the presentness. The history of the movement embraces half a century of contemporary Polish art.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 13-30
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish