Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg (Biennale Form Przestrzennych w Elblągu) was a bi-annual art exhibition organized by state-owned Zakłady Mechaniczne Zamech in Elbląg (Polish People's Republic) between 1965 and 1973. Described as the largest "experiment combining art and industry in Poland," the biennale had five editions, with only the first two dedicated primarily to sculpture and spatial forms.[1][2]
History
Initiated by the artist Gerard Kwiatkowski, a founder of the EL Gallery, the premise of the biennale relied on close collaboration between local craftsmen and contemporary artists.[3] It its attempts to bring artists and workers together and to escape the confines of museum walls, the Elbląg Biennale has been described as an example of performed "collective labor" and compared to the activities of Polish Constructivist artists in Poland during the 1920s and 1930s.[4][5]
Błotnicka-Mazur, Elżbieta. "The Taming of Space in Recovered Territories. The Participatory Aspects of Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg and Visual Arts Symposium Wrocław ’70."Art Inquiry, [s. l.], v. 20, p. 133–157, 2018. DOI 10.26485/AI/2018/20/9.
