General information

The Silver Gallery Under the Quail’s Basket was founded in 2003 as a branch of the Gallery of Art in Legnica, which has been widely representing contemporary art and promoting contemporary jewellery for over 30 years, including, famous abroad, as well as at home, International Silverart Competition and Legnica Festival of Silver SILVER.

The Gallery took its name from the Renaissance tenement in which it is located and which in turn took its name from a nest-shaped corner bay window. The tenement dates back to the 16^th century and is one of the oldest and most beautiful secular buildings in Legnica. One of its two elevations is adorned with very narrative graffiti, depicting scenes from Aesop's Fables, among others.

The Gallery specializes in promotion and sale of artistic jewellery, mainly made of silver. Both the exterior – location in a charming Renaissance tenement in the city centre – and interior – tastefully designed by an artist from Legnica, Grzegorz Niemyjski, - make the Gallery unique, not only in the city area.

The Gallery regularly collaborates with dozens of designers from the whole country, exhibiting and selling their unique jewellery. The designers are comprised of people from various generations and of various artistic output.

Additionally, the Gallery presents and promotes silversmiths, regularly organizing individual exhibitions of their works. In here vernissages of exhibitions of renowned Polish and foreign artists take place, as does an exhibition called DEBUTS, traditionally held during the Legnica Festival of Silver and presenting the profile of an artist making his or her first steps on the jewellery market but at the same time promising.

Throughout the year of existence, the Gallery has become a permanent element of the structure of Legnica market square, a characteristic and unique place not only for shopping but also for social and artistic meetings. Currently it is kept by Krystyna Trzeciak and Emilia Szelążek who create its original style and climate.