Joanna Mytkowska

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

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

Career

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

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

  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.