Opening of the gallery`s new domicile in Cracow with the exhibition:

30th Anniversary Show

On the 20th April, the Foto-Medium-Art gallery will hold the opening of an exhibition celebrating the three decades of its existence. The exhibition will also launch the new phase of the gallery’s activities in Krakow. The dozens of artists who will show their work at the exhibition are predominantly of the generation whose artistic experiences are informed by the turbulent 1970s, conceptual art and new media experiments. In addition to elite and well established international and Polish artists, the programme will also include the work of emerging talents, deeply rooted in the global village consciousness; artists whose explorations are more the result of the experiences embedded in the experimental neo-avant-garde art than a response to the reality around them. Thematically wide ranging, the exhibition gives prominence to the classic search for conceptualism, the documentation of action art, the analysis of pop art languages, sociological and journalistic critiques of reality, feminist theories and internet art. The diversity of themes and formal variety of the exhibition guarantee a show that will reveal both distinguished and broadly representative examples
of modern artistic practice.

The following artists will take part in the exhibition:
Jan Berdyszak, Christian Boltanski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Codemanipulator, Zbigniew Dłubak, Stanisław Dróżdż, Kinga Dunikowski, Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko, Stepan Grygar, Michał Jakubowicz, Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Wolf Kahlen, Akira Komoto, Edward Krasiński, Anna Kutera, Romuald Kutera, Bogusław Michnik, Josef Moucha, Tadeusz Mysłowski, Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz, Jerzy Olek, Józef Robakowski, Tadeusz Sawa-Borysławski, Rudolf Sikora, Annegret Soltau, Zdzisław Sosnowski, Michael Snow, Petr Štembera, Grzegorz Sztabiński, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Witold Węgrzyn, Jan St. Wojciechowski, Stefan Wojnecki, Naoya Yoshikawa.

The Foto-Medium-Art Gallery opened in Wroclaw in October 1977. It has been managed since then by Jerzy Olek, the inspirational force behind one of the most prominent and dynamic art movements. From its inception the gallery has continually focused on exhibitions of the Polish and international avant-garde, although its interests have always ranged beyond the traditional understanding of an exhibiting institution, into innovative relationships with film, video, new technologies, architecture, music and contemporary cultural theories.

In the last thirty years the gallery has organized over 350 exhibitions, seminars and performances. Among the many Foto-Medium-Art events there have been quite a few foreign expositions such as the presentation of 1920s and 1930s photography (Man Ray, El Lisicki, L. Moholy-Nagy, Bauhaus), exhibitions (H. Fulton, R. Long, H. Darboven, U. Rosenbach), and a presentation of the Czech and Slovak avant-garde (J. Moucha, R. Sikora, P. Štembera). Apart from group exhibitions, we have regularly staged individual presentations i.e. those of E. Hartwig, S. Wojnecki, W. Duniko-Dunikowski, M. Snow, J. Kosuth, R. Sachsse, Ch. Boltanski. For ten years (1989-1999) the gallery organised biennial West-East exhibitions. Amongst its other major events was New Spaces of Photography, involving 131 artists from 24 countries (Christo, Ch. Boltanski, A. Messager, J. Fontcuberta, G. Rousse, F. Varini, A. Soltau, T. Ulrichs, H. Tas, S. Saito, B. Webb, J. Hilliard). In 1996 the gallery changed premises and became engaged in the organization of exhibitions in various locations around the world. Since 1977 the gallery has also been gathering documentation on the artistic activities of contemporary artists and has been involved in publishing.

Since 2007 Foto-Medium-Art has been located in Krakow city centre and co-managed by its second director, art historian Krzysztof Siatka. The gallery represents emerging and established contemporary artists.

The opening reception will be held on the 20th of April 2007 at 6 p.m.
The exhibition will be open to public until 7 July 2007.

Foto-Medium-Art Gallery
28/12 Karmelicka Street, 31-128 Kraków
tel. + 48 (012) 429 14 91
fax. + 48 (012) 429 14 91

Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 2-7 p.m.
Saturday 2-6 p.m.

Please visit our website at http://foto-medium-art.com/press/ for press releases.

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PUBLISHING OF A CATALOGUE IN WHICH THERE WILL BE PLACED THE NAMES OF ALL ARTISTS HAVING EXHIBITED IN THE GALLERY DURING THE 30 YEARS OF ITS ACTIVITY.April 20 - July 7, 2007