Seminar with Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Saturday 13 september 2025: Kin museum of contemporary art in Kiruna - Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Museum is a Team Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, will present how teamwork lies at the core of a modern museum’s mission. She will describe the journey of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which opened its new building in 2024 at Plac Defilad, a vibrant cultural hub next to the Palace of Culture and Science. Designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, the museum now offers 20,000 square meters for exhibitions, education, research, and public engagement.

Mytkowska will share how the museum’s collaborative approach shapes its focus on socially engaged, political, and ecological art. Through examples from major exhibitions — such as The Non-Permanent Exhibition. 4× the Collection — she will illustrate how multiple curatorial voices present diverse narratives, both Polish and international. The lecture highlights the belief that a museum’s relevance today depends on dialogue, inclusivity, and critical thinking, achieved through interdisciplinary teamwork.

Speaker biography

Joanna Mytkowska is a curator and art historian who has been Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw since 2007. She previously worked at Centre Pompidou, Paris, and co-founded the Foksal Gallery Foundation. Mytkowska has curated major exhibitions, including Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries (2019) and Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone 1955–1972 (MoMA New York, Hammer Museum, Wiels Brussels). Her leadership focuses on making the museum a collaborative, socially engaged institution that reflects the complexity of contemporary society.

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Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw – on teamwork and the museum as a collaborative space.