Remont Gallery (1-1/1)
The gallery for contemporary art was established and run by the photographer Henryk Gajewski. It conducted its activity from 1 April 1972 to 6 November 1979. It was located at 12/14 Waryńskiego Street in Warsaw, in the student’s club Remont in the Riviera Dormitory of the Warsaw University of Technology.
It had numerous Polish and foreign authors and artists as guests, produced publications, organised international conferences, exhibitions and activities going beyond the official framework of art. In 1973 Henryk Gajewski was joined by Andrzej Jórczak and, for a short time, by Krzysztof Wojciechowski. Fairly soon the Remont Gallery established cooperation with Jan Świdziński and Zbigniew Dłubak. The Gallery presented the works of conceptual trend and performed a function of an information centre and archive of the recent art. The Remont Gallery presented experimental and conceptual photography created by, inter alia, Lucjan Demindowski, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Elżbieta Tejchman, Andrzej Jórczak, Andrzej Lachowicz, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Zygmunt Rytka, Henryk Gajewski, as well as other manifestations of modern art involving performance, stamp art, book art, audio art. It promoted international cooperation of artists and conducted publishing activity – “Art Texts” were published in Polish and English along with articles and programme principles.
