The collection focuses on the newest Polish painting, because that is where most is happening right now. Young painters show what someone their age thinks and lives by, what they fear, what they are up against. Stepping into one of these paintings can feel like a trip into another world, and you come back with a load of stories and thoughts that shift something in your own.

The other half of the work is showing it. School tends to leave art somewhere in the nineteenth century, so for many people contemporary painting is a first encounter. These paintings deserve to be talked about plainly and without airs, in a language that shuts no one out. That is what the films, the podcast and the online work are for.

And it genuinely works. Someone once wrote that a painting by Agata Słowak helped them through a breakup. Others went to their first ever contemporary art show, with the whole family. Hence the online exhibitions, so the work reaches the people who cannot get there in person.