GALERIA LABIRYNT

ABOUT GALLERY

At present the Labirynt Gallery has at its disposal two venues:

The Labirynt 2 Gallery,   41m²

ul.Grodzka 3

The Labirynt 1 Gallery, 120m² and 40 m²

ul.Grodzka 5a (2nd fl.)

Director: Waldemar Tatarczuk

Open: Tuesday - Sunday, 12 am – 7 pm

Tickets

Full price: 5 zł

Reduced price: 2 zł

Free entrance for students of art schools, art history departments and organized groups. 

The Labirynt Gallery organizes exhibitions and presentations of contemporary art. We cooperate with other galleries representing a similar profile at home and abroad. We propose meetings, lectures and discussions on a regular basis. In our premises we maintain a collection of contemporary art. Our publications result from our exhibitions and promotion programme. Publications, photographic and audio visual documentation as well as our library with books, catalogues, magazines, photographs and videos from various art centers in Poland and abroad are made accessible to public at request.

The artistic programme realised in our galleries originated from two artistic conceptions: art of analytical abstraction and conceptual art. It was formulated in the early seventies at the Labirynt LDK Gallery managed by Andrzej Mroczek, a present director of BWA, in 1974-1981. All changes, the programme has been subjected to, result mainly from the activity of art within its area. Art is a continuous intellectual process, rooted in tradition and culture, capable of constant revival, independent from the ever changing time, coexisting with it, independent from anybody and anything, a being in itself capable of  interfering into its own essence and contemporary phenomena, thus expressing itself through artistic means which are characteristic for its epoch.

Till the end of 2004 Labirynt Gallery (at that time named BWA) had at its disposal a venue of the Stara Gallery (226 m²) located in 4 Narutowicza street. The venue was called the Stara Gallery since 1987, but it had a long tradition dating back to the thirties when the Lublin Union of Work for Culture initiated setting up the Work for Culture Centre. The edifice was erected from public funds. It included three exhibition halls used by the Society for Art Propaganda, from 1938 - the Institute for Art Propaganda. First exhibitions were presented in the early 1939. After the war the gallery was reactivated, then an exhibition hall of the newly established BWA. The Stara Gallery presented numerous one-man and group shows of foreign and Polish artists, also including local artists. Exhibitions were accompanied by lectures and meetings with art historians and art theoreticians. At present the exhibition hall in Narutowicza street is administered of the board of directors of the Łopaciński Voivodeship Public Library.