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The dissertation research Towards the dimensions of communication field: Gallery animation as performance art is motivated by the need to fill the gap between theory and practice of contemporary gallery education and to follow the art approaches to gallery animation. The key research question is: Which factors characterize the course of gallery animation? When is gallery animation functional? The research seeks the answer via monitoring gallery animation from the perspective of its inter- activity and procedure. The research is based on three fundamental concepts: 1. The structure of art interpretation keys – alternatives of artwork interpretation and intermediation of art, taking the transformation of interpretation framework in the contemporary visual theory into account. 2.The structure of gallery animation factors in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and France. 3. The line of approaches to gallery animation – a typology of animators.