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Abstract
In the past decade, artistic life in Poland has been shaped by the ongoing political transformation of the nation—a process that began in 1989, when the Polish government officially recognized the independent labor union Solidarity, which it had suppressed in 1981. The first oppositional movement to participate in free elections in a Soviet-bloc nation since the 1940s, Solidarity achieved electoral success, went on to form Poland's first postcommunist government, and introduced political and economic reforms that sought to replace almost fifty years of communism with a democratic state and a market-oriented economy—a transition that has brought new freedoms and new responsibilities, as well as massive upheaval.
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Aneta Szylak
Aneta Szytak is Director of the Bathhouse Centre of Contemporary Art in Gdansk. Her next exhibition at the Centre, All You Need Is Love, opens in May 2000.