Open until: 06.05.2014, opening hours: Mon.-Sat. 12.00-18.00
For over fourty-five years, Edward Dwurnik has consistently commented on, described and depicted the situation of Poland as it was in the times of transformation – when Poland was regarded as a satellite state of the Soviet Union – and as it is today. His artistic oeuvre is considered to be a pictorial chronicle of stories and events, lives, customs, frustrations, traumas, predilections and obsessions of Polish men and women.
Open until: 28.02.2014, opening hours: Mon-Sat 12.00-18.00
It is difficult to subject Krzysztof Sołowiej’s oeuvre to simple categories. Among many desires shared by artists there is a need to find one’s own, unique and, at the same time, recognizable language. There are not too many who succeed in it, and it is the case of Sołowiej’s art which is so individual and free from being loaded with too many references. It is worth stoping and have a look at it.
Open until: 30.12.2013, opening hours: Mon.-Sat. 12.00-18.00
Nearly 30 years of Tarasewicz’s artistic practice coincides with changes in the functioning of the gallery. The exhibition opens a new chapter in Biała’s history, which is also connected with a considerable enlargement of the exhibition space.
SŁAWOMIR BRZOSKA, JAN GRYKA, HEGE LØNNE, KED OLSZEWSKI
Opening: 20.09.2013, opening hour: 20.00
Open until: 25.10.2013, opening hours: Mon-Sat 12.00-18.00
The title of the exhibition is a paraphrase of the title of a famous novel by Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being written in the mid-80s, when the Biała Gallery in Lublin was opened.
The word white have reappeared in the titles of our exhibitions. White Decade, White – Art without Walls, Nova White, White Class, White Combinations, White over White – these are only a few moments from the long history of the gallery. The need to find the right key word was more than unbearable.
1. As a child I did not see any difference between East and West Germany. It all belonged to the mysterious West – better toys, chocolate, wine gums. Everything had a different smell. I remember my uncle from Dusseldorf, who sent us colourful markers, stickers, Haribo Gummi Bears. All that was so different to everything (…)
The story proposed by Magdalena Franczak is an emotional but humble story of winning nature. The artists understands nature as something that cannot be comprehended or stopped, something primeval, overwhelming; something of unfinished construction, because it undergoes changes in the constant process of rising and falling. It is difficult to comprehend it especially as, according (…)
A storm drain grate, a tyre halfway in the ground, a bicycle stand, a birdhouse, a rubbish bin, a toilet, an advertising pillar, a cement mixer, an old Volkswagen Beetle … Every day objects that we all know, “useful objects”, sometimes visibly worn-out, considered to be of “lower rank”. We use them and take them for granted. We do not care to notice them in their unattractiveness.
