Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts

The Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts (Polish: Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej i Performansu) is an art museum being planned for Warsaw, Poland.[1][2] It is scheduled to open in 2018, the centennial of Polish independence. [3]

Businesswoman Grażyna Kulczyk has committed 700 million Polish zloty ($174 million) to building a museum with 6,000-square-meter (64,500 square feet) of exhibition space.[3] Kulczyk's art collection includes more than 600 works of art; artists represented include Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Tadeusz Kantor, Roman Opalka, Antoni Tàpies, Anselm Kiefer, Joan Mitchell and Andy Warhol.[3][4] According to estimates published in the New York Times, the collection is valued at 100 million euros ($106 million).[3]

Tadao Ando will design the museum building; the site has not yet been announced.[3]

A previous effort by Kulczyk to create the museum at Stary Browar, a vacated brewery, in her hometown of Poznań failed to win municipal approval.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Michalska, Julia (25 November 2015). "Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Dłużewska, Emelia (24 November 2015). "Grażyna Kulczyk chce zbudować muzeum obok Centrum Nauki Kopernik". Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Berendt, Joanna (30 November 2015). "Polish Philanthropist, Grazyna Kulczyk, Is Seeking to Open Museum in Warsaw". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 Adam, Georgina (7 March 2014). "Grazyna Kulczyk’s collection on show at Boadilla del Monte, Madrid". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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