The QQ Gallery came into existence in 1988. It is to run by Łukasz Guzek, with the help of Krzysztof Klimek, author of the photographic documentation, and Cezary Woźniak, who is the propriaton of the prernises. The gallery is situated quite centrally, in the part of town at the back of the railway station. It is located in a typical burgher tenement standing by the side of the road that leads to a cementary. In every human settlement there are some peripheral places, the settlement’s own anuses of sorts. One type of such place is a cellar, and this is where the QQ Gallery found its location; in the cellar. After it had been dubbed a gallery, the cellar was tidied up a little, but its overall appearance and smell stayed as they had been. The aesthetics of the gallery remained the aesthetics of a cellar.
The idea of the gallery is closely connected with the character of the place and with the way it functions. The place’s low status is a form of evidence of how art is understood there and of what its attitude to those institutions which manage artists. In contemporary art the material, formal aspect of a work is a domain of absolute freedom. Therefore its form has lost its role as a taken of content and as a medium for conveying information about the artists’ views on both art and matters unrelated to it. The form has forfeited the ability to verife the value of art.
The only possible point of reference remains the artist's professed ethos which determinates his/her way of acting within art and outside it. The question about is not the question about its formal perfection or novelty but about how to be an artist. This is an ethic postulate regarding the practice of every-day life. The artist remains the only ingredient of art that has not been devalued.
The QQ Gallery is not an institution, therefore it does not offer the prestige that they normally bestow. However, because it is not an institution, it can efford an ideological involvement impossible elewere. Institutions only deal with art because they have been formatted to do so and they have to sustain their own existence. The institution - gallery is a neutral place, a mediator between art and the public. For this reason it is not able to take a stand, to present a consistent ethical and aesthetic attitude, or to promote a selected set of values, except maybe for the "post-modern" axiological chaos.
As a non-institution, the QQ Gallery functions dependently on the needs of the artists. Cooperation stems from thinking alike on the matter of art. The gallery one and only task is to provide the prerequisite for creation: Freedom. The uniqueness of the place often forces unorthodox decisions, the uniqueness of this situation demands making also inner decisions.

Łukasz Guzek

The catalogue of Międzynarodowe Centrum Sztuki, Poznań, 1992-1993.