Activity

Substantive Activity: exhibition and art collection

The Gallery’s activity revolves round four priorities:

• Contemporary jewellery art
  

The Legnica Festival of Silver SILVER – presentation of Polish and foreign contemporary jewellery art which annually includes:

• The International Silverart Competition – purely artistic, aiming at idea, value and meaning of an artist’s utterance on the title topic
• About the Artists – a series presenting distinguished personalities of Polish and foreign jewellery
• Silver Schools – a series presenting distinguished personalities of Polish and foreign jewellery
• Debuts – a series presenting works of young artists who have just entered the Polish jewellery and design scene
• The Boundaries of Global Art – a series of science sessions dedicated to conteporary art, jewellery and design

Problem and thematic, individual and joint exhibitions of works by Polish and foreign artists

• Young painting and multimedia

All-Polish Review of Young Painting PROMOTIONS

• Local art

Exhibition of the Fine Arts of the Copper Region (WPZM)

Individual and joint presentations

• European art

It is a new element among the Gallery’s interests, which has been keeping in touch more and more intensively with many European centres and artists, increasingly exporting its exhibitions and importing foreign ones.

The Gallery’s main job is to popularize contemporary art knowledge through art exhibitions and other activities within the Gallery and in other enclosures in Legnica (Helena Modrzejewska Theatre, Legnica Culture Centre), as well as in the open air.

We organize individual and joint exhibitions, thematic and problem ones, by renowned artists and beginners – but always professional.

The exhibitions are interchanged every 3-4 weeks (quite often a few of them are presented simultaneously). The Gallery organizes dozens of exhibitions on various scale and essentiality.

In addition to exhibitions, happenings and multimedia art shows are organized as well. The Gallery collects the works of contemporary art within limited scope which stems from its exhibitory specialization and content-related priorities.

The Gallery owns:

§        Post-location collection of painting by artists from Poland and the former communist bloc, including several hundred of works, currently supplemented with painting by members of All-Polish Review of Young Painting PROMOTIONS, which is organized by the Gallery

§        collection of works by local artists from the area of Legnica and Copper Basin (former Legnica Voivodeship)

§        collection of jewellery constituting a nucleus of the International Jewellery Collection

PUBLISHING ACTIVITY

The Gallery’s publications are closely connected to the executed exhibition programme. They include: catalogues, leaflets, brochures, posters, placards, contest regulations, invitations and handbills. These publications are to promote art and artists, as wells as the Gallery itself, the city of Legnica (indirectly); they also help to make the activities attractive and to build institutional and public prestige. Above all, they document the work of the Gallery and artists.

OTHER FORMS OF ACTIVITY

Art exhibitions are often accompanied by music events (concerts, recitals), fashion and jewellery shows.

The Gallery is also engaged in charity auctions in support of the disabled and children.

PROMOTING CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE GALLERY AT HOME AND ABROAD

§        The Gallery cooperates with over s dozen of galleries in a country in the form of constant exchange of information on actions and realization of exhibition projects

§        Since 2002 the Gallery has been participating in the Lower Silesian Art Festival (joint realization of greater artistic ventures by BWA Wrocław, BWA Wałbrzych, BWA Jelenia Góra and the Culture and Art Centre in Wrocław)

§        Since 2000 the Gallery has been making intensive attempts to promote the Polish art abroad, especially young painting and avan-quarde jewellery. Several exhibitions have been organized so far, in Serbia, Russia, Italy, Spain, Estonia and Norway among others.

BUSINESS ACTIVITY

includes:

§        selling: works of art and jewellery, inside catalogues and outside publications, various works during auctions and occasional fairs, advertising services, mainly in catalogues, art design services, organizing events and freelance contests

§        renting: accomodation and transport vehicles, showcases and other exhibition equipment