F.A.I.T.

Detour Institution has started!
Yesterday after the official welcoming of all participants, we have visited F.A.I.T. Gallery in Krakow.

F.A.I.T. (Foundation Artists Innovation Theory) was established in 2005 in Cracow. During 10 years of its existence it has repeatedly changed the formula, reacting to the reality in which in which it function and needs of the local artistic community. The primary objective of F.A.I.T. is to stimulate discussion on art and contemporary culture, integrating artistic and critical scene and to promote Polish art in the country and abroad. In pursuing these goals, the Foundation seeks innovative methods of communication and popularization issues of contemporary culture and new methods of reaching the audience. The leading activity of the Foundation is running a contemporary art gallery, realizing exhibitions of the most recent developments in contemporary art. In addition to the activity of the gallery, Foundation is committed to presenting art in alternative spaces, film production and working on an archive of contemporary art. Actively builts an archive of oral history of art in Poland, carrying out a series of interviews with artists and art profesionals active from the 50s till today. In 2012, as a result of a research on the art of the 70s, Fuondation has produced a film "Comes True" dedicated to Jerzy Bereś - sculptor, author of manifestation and outsider of Krakow art scene. Currently, the main area of ​​research of the Foundation is the Krakow artistic community of the 80s.