Anneke de Jager

Natalia LL, Consumer Art has been on display at the National Museum in Warsaw for several years, as a critical comment on food shortages under communist rule in the 1970s. Also, Natalia LL was one of the first artists to step forward and criticise conceptual art for excessive rationalisation and avoidance of physical sensuality.

It has been removed from display by the museum's new head of Poland's national gallery, Jerzy Miziolek, sparking a social media protest. 

Protesters have reacted by posting photos of them eating bananas on Facebook and Twitter to ridicule the ban. 

Actress Magdalena Cielecka posted an image online of her pointing a banana at her head like a gun. She said it was in protest against any ideological or political limits put on artists, adding ‘an artist, to create, must be free.’

The government has tried to downplay the banana protests claiming that it will lead to obesity because apples have fewer calories... :-)))) lol

The dispute is the latest in a string of controversies surrounding art and culture under the conservative and nationalist government that won power in 2015.

Culture Minister Piotr Glinski has repeatedly drawn criticism for cutting subsidies to art festivals that were planning to show controversial theatre plays on Catholic themes. Glinski also fired a popular theatre director who criticised him as well as the director of a World War II museum, saying the exhibition did not show Poland’s suffering or heroism enough.