The PROGRAM Gallery exists since 2002. In it’s exhibiting activity accents the social projects, which strengthens the importance of art for the contemporaneity. The gallery organized over 60 exhibitions and realizations. It cooperates with artists of young and middle generation.
The idea and programme of the activity are the expression of the attitude and artistic beliefs of the gallery. It fulfills the appointed tasks by presenting the occurrences of the contemporary artistic culture, building the documentary base, publishing. The profile of the events in PROGRAM gallery has as a rule a multimedia character. The intention is creating a place for art, implied as a culture creating space, a place for spreading the art’s dynamic, updated image. The gallery is open for searching new methods of communication, for art commenting and involved in modern reality (Integration, Inc.) as well as for working with young, debuting artists (hARTownia, Diplomas). The social aspect was the base to form and accomplish projects in public space (Floors of Art, Artcube).
The essential element of the gallery’s activity is promotion of polish contemporary art in the world. The gallery regularly participates in international art fairs (e.g. ArtCologne, Artefiera, Next Chicago, Preview Berlin, Solo Project Basel, Scope London & Miami, Viennafair). Simultaneously organizes exhibitions in co-operating galleries abroad and affiliates with artists from other counties, by arranging exchange residences and by participation in shows of international frame.
The need for developing taken measures and creating new artistic projects was the reason for establishing the Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art, within which the PROGRAM gallery operates since 2005, and together runs key projects.
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Program Gallery: ul. Gen. Andersa 20, 00-201 Warsaw, POLEN, phone: 0048.22.6354044, www.artprogram.pl
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Picture: Artist: Jaroslaw Jeschke, Untitled / 2008, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, courtesy: PROGRAM GALLERY, Warsaw
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artists represented: Czekalska & Golec, Górna Katarzyna, Lódz Kaliska, Markiewicz Malgorzata, Michowska Agata, Nikic Ivo, Orlikowska Anna, Sobczyk Marek, Solowiej Krzysztof, Sosnowski Kajetan, Tarkawian Mariusz, Zasadni Wojciech and “new young talents”: Borowa Agata, New Borowa Dorota, Borowa Beata, Jaroslaw Gos, Jaroslaw Jeschke, Julita Malinowska, Ivo Nikic, Kinga Nowak, Hanna Sliwinska, Urszula Sliz, Katarzyna Szeszycka, Lubacz Olga, Malinowska Julita, Narbutt Sylwia, Sokolowski Piotr
