Partners

The work of Stanisław Dróżdż remains alive. It continues to inspire viewers and researchers alike. It resonates exceptionally well in the twenty-first century urban space.

From the very beginning of its existence, Wrocław Contemporary Museum has been strongly connected with the person and work of Stanisław Dróżdż, a Wrocław-based concrete poet and an artist of major significance for Polish art as well as for world art in the broadest sense. He is present there through a substantial body of his works held in the Museum’s collection and in the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, located in the same institution. A hallmark of the Museum is Dróżdż’s work The Hourglass, executed as a mural on the façade, while his spatial work Concrete Poetry (the so-called “threads”) constitutes a permanent exhibition inside the building. It therefore became a natural decision to undertake close cooperation with the Stanisław Dróżdż Foundation, established by the artist’s heirs in 2005.

The Stanisław Dróżdż Foundation was established in 2025 by Anna Dróżdż, its President – the artist’s widow and sole heir. The aim of the Foundation is to deepen knowledge of and popularise the work of Stanisław Dróżdż in the context of European culture, as well as to care for his legacy.

The National Ossoliński Institute preserves an extensive archive collected over many years by the artist. Wrocław holds a vast documentation of his artistic output.

In 2016, as part of the visual arts programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, the Art Transparent Foundation carried out the project “Stanisław Dróżdż. Text Paths,” which included three murals placed on Wrocław tenement houses. Thanks to this project, a remarkable situation emerged – every inhabitant of Wrocław recognises Dróżdż’s works, even if they do not always identify the artist’s name.

In the archiving and presentation of Stanisław Dróżdż’s legacy, we cooperate with numerous partners, primarily museums, galleries, and private collections – both Polish and international – that hold his works in their collections. These include: the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, the National Museum in Wrocław, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Forum Konkrete Kunst in Erfurt, the Museum Modern Art in Hünfeld (Germany), Schwarz Galleria d’Arte in Milan, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach, Florida.