The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Profile

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.

represented artists

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