The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Profil

Starting from January 2008, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw runs its programme activities in a temporary space on Panska 3 street in central Warsaw, in close proximity to the future contruction site of the Museum's building. The exhibitions, events, educational programmes and publications provided by the Museum today help to develop the full range of activities the Museum will run in the future, after the proper building is opened. The Museum constantly expands its offer to the public, focusing on modern and contemporary art, graphic and industrial design and architecture. The Museum's main mission today is the creation of a proper art collection, relevant for the Museum's institutional outlook and its new building.

Institution

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is a national cultural insitution established by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland on the 29th of April 2005. On the 30th of October 2005 the municipal authorities of the City of Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture signed an agreement on shared management of the Museum. The agreement determines the managerial, organizational and financial basis of the Museum as well as the guidelines for investing in and erecting the Museum's building designed by Christian Kerez.

The Museum is supervised by the Museum Board, established by the Minister of Culture on the 12th of September 2005. At present, the Board members are: Magdalena Abakanowicz , Michal Borowski, Adam Leszkiewicz, Krzysztof Michalski, Agnieszka Morawinska, Adam Myjak, Andrzej K. Olszewski, Anda Rottenberg, Adam Szymczyk , Andrzej Turowski, Danuta Wawrzynkiewicz.

Joanna Mytkowska is the Director of the Museum.

Künstler der Galerie bzw der Sammlung

Magdalena Abakanowicz     Pawel Althamer     Wojciech Bakowski     Miroslaw Balka     Yael Bartana     Rafal Bujnowski     Oskar Dawicki     Ion Grigorescu     Aneta Grzeszykowska     Zuzanna Janin     Eustachy Kossakowski     Grzegorz Kowalski     Katarzyna Kozyra     Zbigniew Libera     Jaroslaw Modzelewski

Deimantas Narkevicius     Wilhelm Sasnal     Katerina Sedá     Jan Smaga     Marek Sobczyk     Monika Sosnowska     Alina Szapocznikow     Leon Tarasewicz     Piotr Uklanski     Krzysztof Wodiczko     Ryszard Wozniak     Artur Zmijewski