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Ufo Art Gallery

contemporary art gallery in Kraków

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ137690871 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ufo Art Gallery (Unrecognized Fields Of Art Gallery) is a contemporary art gallery in Kraków, at 6 Podwale Street. It was founded in 2018 by Maria Ciborowska who has been its program director.

The artists who shown their works at the gallery included Marta Antoniak, Michael Biber, Marcin Dymek, Samuel Kłoda, Radim Koros, Bogumił Książek, Grzegorz Siembida, Zuzanna Szary, Agnieszka Szostek and Katarzyna Wyszkowska. A group exhibition Wonderful Line. A sentimental Flight in 2023 included the works by Wilhelm Sasnal, Rafał Bujnowski and Marcin Maciejowski.

In 2022, in cooperation with 1891 Garni Hotel, the gallery organized four simultaneous painting exhibitions entitled Krakowski spleen. The gallery was represented at the Kraków Art Fair in 2024. In 2024 Bogumił Książek received Witold Wojtkiewicz Award for the exhibition Loty shown in 2023 in the Ufo Art Gallery.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ufo Art Gallery” is contemporary art gallery in Kraków. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gallery, contemporary and gallery, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2023, 2022, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gallery, contemporary and gallery is the immediate research focus.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137690871. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2023, 2022 and 1891.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ufo Art Gallery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.