Founding of the gallery: October 1977.

Director of the gallery since the beginning until now is Jerzy Olek. Main focus: International and Polish avant-garde (1970–now). Since its formation it has an extended program: film, video, music, new media, current art theories.

Most important events: presentation of the photography avant-garde of the 1920ies and 30ies (Man Ray, El Lisicki, L. Moholy-Nagy, Bauhaus), exhibitions of H. Fulton, R. Long, H. Darboven, U. Rosenbach and also czech and slowak avant-garde (J. Moucha, R. Sikora, P. Štember…). Solo shows, i.e. E. Hartwig, S. Wojnecki, W. Duniko-Dunikowski, M. Snow, J. Kosuth, R. Sachsse, Ch. Boltanski.

1996 - the gallery changes its domicile and continues organizing exhibitions in different places. Every two years it organises the exhibitions series „East–West” – the most famous one was „New spaces for photography” in which 131 artists from 24 countries participated (i.e. Christo, Ch. Boltanski, A. Messager, J. Fontcuberta, G. Rousse, F. Varini, A. Soltau, T. Ulrichs, H. Tas, S. Saito, Natalia LL, B. Webb, J. Hilliard …).

Since 2007 the gallery is situated in the centre of Krakow.

Second director has become the art historian Krzysztof Siatka.

In the 30 years of its activity the gallery has organized over 350 exhibitions. Since 1977 it collects a documentation of contemporary artists and publishes books. The gallery has a steady cooperation with the following artists: Jan Berdyszak, Codemanipulator, Zbigniew Dlubak, Kinga Dunikowski, Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko, Michal Jakubowicz, Natalia LL.