Gallery QQ - a history and program outline.
Gallery was founded in 1988.
10 to 15 art events take place yearly.
From its beginning the gallery has an entirely non commercial character, and its activity, and administration so far have been supported from private funds of the organiser.
Gallery program is based on time-based and place related modern art phenomena such as different types of performance art, installation and various combinations of both (performance/installation).
Art events are material for further studies, theoretical analyses which are published in art magazines. Each of them is also documented on video tape and photos. The gallery has also modern art archive (Polish and international), keeping contact and exchanging information with many artists, art institutions and organisations working in the field of contemporary art.
Every year I try to compose a gallery program with a particular subject which is also an important issue for contemporary art. I invite artists who take up those problems in their art practice. After finishing a year of such a activity I sum up its results in a series of a texts base it on gallery events and using as an example realisations from my gallery. Then I prepare a publication with yearly documentation.
In the year 1996 there were 12 art events by the artists from Poland and as well as from Austria, Germany, Norway, the USA and Yugoslavia. Thease were mostly performance art events and installation. Their main subject and question was : how the art piece includes an artist, how incorporates his body and mind. It drives to a more general question: what dose it mean to be an artist in contemporary art? May be a notion „artist” is today,s definition of art ? Redefinition of art - it is a main task for nowadays, for so called postmodern art criticism and theory.
ŁUKASZ GUZEK