Art & patronage
A collection and long-term patronage of the arts – from paintings by Fangor and Nowosielski in our rooms to the choir of Montserrat Abbey.
The paintings we work among
Danske Gas maintains a collection of modern art – including works by Wojciech Fangor and Jerzy Nowosielski, alongside other Polish and international contemporary painters.
Every few months we replace the works on display with others from the holdings of the company or its shareholders. The collection numbers several dozen pieces in total.
Ethereal Voyage · a piece for this collection
Faces that remember antiquity
The works of Igor Mitoraj, collected systematically over many years, hold a place of their own in the principal shareholder’s collection.
‘Veiled Face’ is among the most affecting works of Igor Mitoraj’s early period. A human face swathed in rhythmic bands of matter loses its sight, but not its presence. The veil draws the eye to the lips and to the tension held beneath the surface.
The silvery form brightens on its swells and darkens with patina in its folds. It recalls an ancient relic, though it was made in the twentieth century. The veil is at once a bandage and a shroud – the artist shows the classical canon through the fragment.
The work was made by the French house of Christofle as a New Year composition for 1977. The artist’s signature and the maker’s hallmarks on the reverse place it between sculpture and the silversmith’s art. In the collection it stands among other faces by Mitoraj and, like each of them, looks out from beneath its veil at those who have come to see it.
The stage and the arts
The company’s principal shareholder privately supports culture – the opera and concert stage, and the visual arts.
We invite members of our team, each with a guest, to opera houses and museums in Poland and across Europe.
Four Wednesdays on Pole Mokotowskie
Danske Gas partnered the LOLEK Kino Letnie ‘Oscarowe Środy’ edition on Pole Mokotowskie: four Wednesdays, four films honoured by the Academy, a cinema under the open sky.
What we support
Danske Gas Polo Day
Warsaw Polo Club, Jaroszowa Wola near WarsawReportLOLEK Kino Letnie ‘Oscarowe Środy’
Warsaw, Pole MokotowskieReportPrivate performance ‘Obiecuję, obiecuję ci…’
Teatr Nowe Formy, WarsawAnnouncement
Danske Gas is a patron of the Escolania de Montserrat – the choir of Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia and one of the oldest music schools in Europe.
Corporate Member · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Modern art has been part of Danske Gas from the beginning. Our membership of SFMOMA extends that thread to one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art.