Wyspa Institute

The next place we have visited was the Wyspa Institute (http://www.wyspa.art.pl/). Wyspa Institute of Art, founded in 2004 and run by the Wyspa Progress Foundation in Gdańsk, accommodated on the premises of the former Gdańsk Shipyard is the first Polish non-commercial and non-governmental institution of an international profile, devoted to the issues of contemporary artistic culture. Its character and programme grows directly from the specificity of the venue where it is located – its history and tradition, on the one hand, and its projected future, on the other. Bearing in mind many failed revitalisations in Europe, the creators of the Institute apply critical tools, both practical and theoretical, in the assessment of all the phenomena happening around. We have met Grzegorz Klaman who presented us the history of the Wyspa and its current exhibition "Wyspa 3.0 - Map and Territory" - showing 30 years of Wyspa with works by Jarosław Bartołowicz, Kuba Bielawski, Oskar Dawicki, Jarosław Fliciński, Angelika Fojtuch, Grupa i inni (Mira Boczniowicz i Andrzej K. Urbański), Ellen Harvey, Mamet Hektor, grupa Low Res, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Robert Jurkowski, Ania Kalwajtys, Grzegorz Klaman, Tomasz Kopcewicz, Kazimierz Kowalczyk, Julia Kurek, Konrad Kuzyszyn, Leszek Lewandowski, Zbigniew Libera, Jacek Niegoda, Dorota Nieznalska, Hanna Nowicka, Maureen O’Connor, Monika Pudlis, Konrad Pustoła, Anna Reinert, Robert Rumas, Jadwiga Sawicka, Roland Schefferski, Dominika Skutnik, Marek Sobczyk, Jacek Staniszewski, Andrzej Syska, Eugeniusz Szczudło, Michał Szlaga, Grzegorz Sztwiertina, Marek Targoński, Twożywo, Ania Witkowska, Agnieszka Wołodźko, Krzysztof Wróblewski, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Dorota Zgłobicka, Ryszard Ziarkiewicz, Alina Żemojdzin, Artur Żmijewski.