The mission of the City Art Gallery in Kalisz is to initiate exhibitions and provide art education in order to bring contemporary art to a wider audience – to present the forerunners and classics of contemporary art as well as those artists who reflect the newest ideas, thoughts and concepts. We aim to offer contemporary art to an increasingly broader circle of viewers and also to venture out with it into the public space.

We would like to animate the intellectual and spiritual development of the local people in order to develop their creativity and stimulate both their aesthetic and ethical sensitivity. We would like to prepare the viewers to both receive and interpret art and to provoke discussion about it and the topics that inspire it.

We are open towards various forms of artistic expression and to a variety of  perhaps controversial topics. We are open to enchantment and emotion, to critique and even to the doubts of our public. We would like to answer their questions and pose new ones. Sometimes we may not have precise answers, as good art has the ability to defend itself.