Artysta w fabryce. Misja galerii zakładowej na przykładzie nowohuckiej Galerii Rytm ZDK Huty im. Lenina

Abstract

This outline is about the presence of artists and their works on the premises of factories and industrial sectors in the times of PPR. The author pays special attention to factory galleries, social agreements between the artist environment and the management of factories and the forms of industrial patronage over artistic culture. This phenomenon was connected to the mission, proclaimed by communist ideologists, cultural activists and artists and critics supporting them, of making art more commonly available, especially in making plastic art available for industrial environments. Despite the utopian aspect of many views of that times, the example of Nowa Huta confirms the efficiency and sense of the actions started then, though of course it does not justify the circumstances and methods of their implementation, which at best can be perceived as outdated.