Galeria Urban Forms - Elodie Rousselin

« Galeria Urban Forms », a monumental exhibition started in Poland last year (2011), in Lodz' streets. 

Kind of art gallery in public space, the idea to make Lodz in exhibition went from Michael Biezynski, artistic director. The artists engaged in the project made directly on the slide of tenement houses large format art work. Most of the time, they needed a work platform or a crane for achieve their wall paintings, even if it's too much high. And sometimes, it's look more like a building site !

Don't think that it's a vandal action ! On contrary, the city of Lodz co-financed the project, and made available twenty-five walls in the city-centre.

Like more and more towns around the world, Lodz understood that street art could be a real interest for them, in terms of tourism and economical development notably. Street art could be a value and could involve an identity for a town. New York and Berlin are well-known examples. 

By suppporting the project, the municipality show also its volonty to open spaces of exhibitions, and to give opportunies to citizens to access to culture, by an other way, outside out the traditional places of art.

Urban Forms Fondation, the structure who's in charge of the organisation, wants to promote, support and organize cultural actions, acrossing disciplines for a better access to art woks.

Read more about the project