Single-painting exhibition:
Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) Swedish painter, abstractionist. A great artist who has been under-appreciated over the years, she is now considered the first abstractionist, active long before Kandinsky, Mondriani and Malevich, considered the great trinity and inventors of abstract art. She was not only a working artist, but also a declared clairvoyant and mystic.

The series presents profiles of great Polish and foreign women painters. Women in art are still not given enough prominence, and indeed are often erased from it. Little has changed since the founding of the British Royal Academy in 1768, which did include two female painters, Angelika Kauffman and Mary Moser, but neither one nor the other is shown in the collective portrait of the members of the Royal Academy by Johann Zoffany alongside the other founding members. Their images are found in portraits hanging on the wall behind the models' podium, but this makes them objects of art rather than its creators. It was not until 1922 that more women were admitted to the Academy. The exclusion to which female artists have been subjected for centuries has caused art to be perceived from a male perspective. We want to restore the importance and rightful place of talented women who are still little known and unrecognised due to social prejudices.