The idea to establish Galeria Art Brut was inspired by the life and work of Dominika Mendel – a 31-year-old autistic woman from Lublin who, since a very early age, has been communicating with the world through meticulous and highly imaginative miniature drawings, which later in her life developed into multidimensional paintings. Her art has always been driven by an overwhelming need that stemmed to an equal extent from the artist’s particular life situation and an inherently powerful creative desire.

The key premise of Galeria Art Brut in Lublin can be boiled down to the following sentence: as long as disability is not stigmatised, it can easily accommodate the artistic gateway to the personal and social independence of people otherwise often excluded from social interactions due to their otherness.