Galeria Arsenal

National Network
Poland
Address

Galeria Arsenał
ul. Mickiewicza 2
15-222 Bialystok
Poland

Bialystok
Poland

Telephone
48 85 742 03 53
Telephone (other)
48 85 742 66 14
Fax
48 85 742 85 60
E-Mail
m.szewczyk@galeria-arsenal.pl
E-Mail (2)
m.godlewska@galeria-arsenal.pl
E-Mail (3)
m.jachula@galeria-arsenal.pl
Mobile Phone
0048600802289
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1965
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
The Arsenal Gallery was founded in Bialystok in 1965 as one of the Art Exhibition Halls. Presently, it is a city gallery, financed by the Local Government of Bialystok. The Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok is a venue that has made its presence felt, both in Poland and in Europe. Budgetary resources available in a year: 500.000 EUR. Number of staff employed 20 people.
Mission and Objectives

The Gallery carries out a solidly planned and consistent exhibition programme – it presents and promotes the most modern art of different media (painting, sculpture, objects, photography, video art, intermedia installations, performance, etc.). The Gallery presents over 20 exhibitions annually, which are individual shows or presentations focusing on a particular problem.
The Gallery also presents the programmes of other interesting galleries. We organize avant-garde concerts, film shows and launch events for books about art. The Gallery publishes catalogues or other publications to all the presented exhibitions. Parallel to the exhibition schedule, the Gallery carries out a multi-level educational programme ‘Arsenal Playground’, curator – Magdalena Godlewska. It’s a common platform for various workshop-like projects run by artists. Its aim is to engage all those who care about self-development (parents and children, students, the youth and adults).
The programme is realized with the funds from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Is art necessary and why? is a series of lectures and meetings with eminent art theoreticians, critics and curators, as well as artists themselves, which the Arsenal Gallery organizes in cooperation with Stanislaw Staszic College of Public Administration in Bialystok. In cooperation with the Podlaskie Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts we have built up a contemporary art collection which has been hailed by the critics as one of the finest in Poland. The artworks of the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok are split into two collections: "Three streams. Realism – Metaphor – Geometry” (the works from1965-1985) and "Kolekcja II" (1990-2010).

Main Projects / Activities

The Gallery carries out a solidly planned and consistent exhibition programme – it presents and promotes the most modern art of different media (painting, sculpture, objects, photography, video art, intermedia installations, performance, etc.).
We exhibit the works of the most splendid Polish and foreign contemporary artists: Mirosław Bałka, Katarzyna Kozyra, Joanna Rajkowska, Józef Robakowski, Jadwiga Sawicka, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Julita Wójcik.
We seek to promote Polish art abroad by organizing exhibitions in renowned galleries and cultural institutions. Parallel to the exhibition schedule, the Gallery carries out a multi-level educational programme ‘Arsenal Playground’, curator – Magdalena Godlewska.
It’s a common platform for various workshop-like projects run by artists. Its aim is to engage all those who care about self-development (parents and children, students, the youth and adults). In cooperation with the Podlaskie Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts we have built up a contemporary art collection which has been hailed by the critics as one of the finest in Poland. The artworks of the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok are split into two collections: "Three streams. Realism – Metaphor – Geometry” (the works from 1965-1985) and "Kolekcja II" (1990-2010).

Contact (1) Full Name
Magdalena Godlewska
Head of the organisation
Monika Szewczyk
Contact (2) Full Name
Michal Jachula