POLISH IMAGES

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A major exhibition of Polish contemporary art has been produced in Finland, funded by the Ministry of Education, in the framework of the Finnish-Polish Cultural Exchange Agreement. The exhibition in Poland has been organised by the Warsaw Art Exhibition Centre. In Finland, it is organised by the Artists’ Association of Finland.

The exhibition features around twenty of Poland’s leading artists. Polish art, while appreciating its own specific characteristics, is trying to maintain its place in a rapidly internationalising world and to follow developments elsewhere, for example through exchange exhibitions. The collection exhibited therefore demonstrates both strong national, tradition-based features of Polish art and general features of Polish art that have been adopted from elsewhere.

The exhibition follows broadly the same lines as the recent and highly acclaimed exhibitions in Copenhagen, Rabat and Casablanca. The organisers hope that the exhibition will open up the characteristics of Polish visual art to the Finnish public. Although the cultural traditions of Poland and Finland have developed under different historical circumstances, they share many natural, universal similarities that are perhaps best conveyed through art.

Translated with DeepL