Joanna Mytkowska

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Joanna Mytkowska
Born1970
NationalityPolish
Occupations

Joanna Mytkowska (1970) is a Polish curator and art critic. She has been the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw since 2007.[1] She is the co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, which since 2001 has been operating independently from the Foksal Gallery.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Mytkowska studied at the University of Warsaw from 1988 to 1994.

Career[edit]

Mytkowska was the curator of the Artur Żmijewski exhibition at the Polish Pavilion during the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

She organized the following exhibits for the Centre Georges Pompidou: Paweł Althamer (2006), The Magellanic Cloud (2007), The Anxious (2008) and Promises of the Past (2010).[3]

Mytkowska was a member of the selection committee for Documenta 14, which took place in 2017.[4] She was also a member of the jury that selected Kerstin Brätsch for the Edvard Munch Art Award in 2017.[5]

Recognition[edit]

In December 2018 Mytkowska was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for her curatorial and intellectual achievements at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Museum of modern art in Warsaw Auditorium Moscow. A Sketch for a Public Space Last accessed on March 22nd, 2015
  2. ^ "Foksal Gallery". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  3. ^ CIMAM Joanna Mytkowska Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine last accessed on March 22nd, 2015
  4. ^ "Adam Szymczyk has been elected as the Artistic Director of documenta 14, which is scheduled to take place from June 10th, to September 17th, 2017, in Kassel". Biennial Foundation. 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  5. ^ Alex Greenberger (14 November 2017), Kerstin Brätsch Wins 2017 Edvard Munch Art Award ARTnews.
  6. ^ "award-ceremony - Igor Zabel Association for culture and theory". www.igorzabel.org. Retrieved 2019-03-06.