With 1
march 2016, from the combination of Count Władysław Zamoyski's
Municipal Art Gallery and Zakopane Promotion Office emerged Zakopane
Cultural Center. Statute of ZCK (polish abreviation) keeps the
autonomy of Municipal Gallery and its current structure.
ZCK is an autonomous, cultural
institution which undergo the register of cultural institutions of
the organizator. The organizator of ZCK is Municipality of Zakopane.
The ZCK's headquaters is the town of Zakopane and its area of
activity is Zakopane's territory. Meritorical supervision over ZCK's
activity is moderated by the Mayor of Zakopane.
The main goals of ZCK are:
a) improvement and cultural education
for active modern art recepient with expanding and popularizing
modern plastic and photographic art and other visual and multimedia
platforms.
b) promoting turistic, cultural, natural and
economic activities of Zakopane and Podtatrze, building up the
positive depiction of town and its regions, spreading and securing
cultural goods of Podhale region.
While promoting accomplishments of
widely understood visual arts, ZCK collaborates with national, local
and social units, organizations and invidual persons from nation and
abroad.
ZCK primary
functions:
- Organizing
plastic art exhibitions,
- Providing
assist with organizing activities that promote plastic art
achievements,
- Conducting
educational activities with cooperation with educational authorities
and schools,
- Collaboration with individual plastic artists and
along with unions creative associations while helping with spreading
artistic creations of their members,
- Publishing press
connected with plastic art popularization,
- Promoting art by
arranging readings, contests and accompanying events for exhibitions
(movies, concerts, recitals, meetings with authors etc.),
-
Organizing open air artistic activities,
- Collecting,
stocktaking, management and using modern art pieces which belong to,
and are deposited by ZCK,
- Purchasing modern art and press in
order to promote and document modern art and also mediating in
transactions during exhibitions arranged by ZCK,
- Collecting
and publishing documents on ZCK events,
- Apart
from its primary activity, ZCK can also run commercial enterprise
(fairs, art or culinary services
etc.) from which the income will entirely be aimed at statutory
projects,
Other functions:
- Running multidirectional,
promotional campaign on the basis of elaborated and accepted
marketing strategy,
- Organizing artistic, entertaining,
touristic, recreational and economical events in Zakopane,
-
Leading public info points,
- Creating touristic, economical and
cultural database,
- Conducting market research among tourist
and town residents,
- Publishing in the field of statutory tasks
of ZCK,
- Cooperating with local government, educational and
other institutions, associations, and establishments in building a
brand of Zakopane,
- Running
economic activity according to law,
- Undertaking EU integrity
projects coordinated with Mayor of Zakopane,
- Investment
activity coordinated with Mayor of Zakopane.
Program Council
of ZCK:
1. Urszula Dubowska – screenwriter, director, TVP
Kultura journalist
2. Zaofia
Gołubiew – art historian, former National Museum in Cracov
director
3. Dorota
Grubba-Thiede – phd. in humanistic arts from Polish Institute of
World Art Studies in Warsaw
4. Marek Król Józaga –
vicedirector of A. Kenar Artistic School Complex in Zakopane, plastic
artist
5. Agnieszka Nowak-Gąsienica – vicemayor of
Zakopane
6. Prof. Adam Myjak – rector in Academy of Fine Arts
in Warsaw
7. Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz – composer
8. Lidia
Rosińska-Podleśny – vicedirector for artistic matters in ZCK,
plastic artist
9. Joanna Staszak – head of Culture and
Popularization of Zakopane Department in Town Hall of Zakopane
10.
Marek Szala – plastic artist
11. Dorota Ząbkowska –
National Culture Institutes Department in Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage
Count Zamoyski Municipal Arts Gallery
History
We
present you the rich history of one of the oldest art galleries in
Poland, the Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane. It's beginning reach
year 1911. In july of 1911, in newly opened and still yet unifinished
Polish Bazaar next to Krupówki street, a new art exhibition was
held. It was rather a contest, organized by manufacturer from Lódź,
Henryk Grohlman, who was also an art mecenate and co-creator of
Podhalan Art Association which by then was operating for three years.
Opening
hours
monday -
friday od 9.00 do 17.00
Contact
Kościeliska
7 st.
34-500 Zakopane
tel.+48 18 206 69 50
fax+48 18
206 66 56
office@promocja.zakopane.pl