The management of the memory of an artist on the example of the Foundation for Support of Helena Modjeska’s Life and Art

The Foundation for Support of Helena Modjeska’s Life and Art, established in 2009 in Krakow, is an organization whose principal purpose is to preserve and disseminate the memory of the great artist. This article is a presentation of the Foundation’s structure, its way of functioning, and the most important tasks until now, as well as an attempt to place the organization in the context of memory management processes. The authors try to point out the need to remember about artists as those who build cultural identity, to highlight the role of the past as a tool for the interpretation of the present, and to find the standards that define the ethics of social behavior for generations, the existence of which is made known by the ideas represented by outstanding Polish artists