After 1989, a serious body of knowledge has been produced in the former socialist states as well as in the West that theorizes the notion of gender and gender relations established in state-socialism and in the post-communist era.

Gender Check is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles.

Polish artist Monika Sosnowska makes work with space and about space, so that space becomes an experience and attributes such as ‘narrow / wide’, ‘closed / open’, and ‘low / high’ are experienced sensuously and emotionally.

This is the first in a series of supplementary volumes to be published on The Saatchi Gallery’s renowned collection of paintings.