In the Heart of the Country [electronic resource].

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 2013

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The exhibition “In the Heart of the Country” is the first comprehensive presentation of the international collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In a relatively short time—the Museum was established in 2005—the institution has acquired over 300 works. First and foremost, these are works purchased as part of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s “International Collections of Contemporary Art” programme, as well as donations and temporary loans from artists, private individuals and businesses. Many of the collected works were commissioned by the Museum for its exhibitions and public projects (such as pieces by artists like Sanja Iveković, Zbigniew Libera, Sharon Hayes and Paweł Althamer). The Museum collection also includes artistic archives—e.g. over 150 000 negatives from the eminent photographer Eustachy Kossakowski, plus a collection of films and photographs documenting the activities of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski’s workshop at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, which was so vital for Polish art after 1989. There is also a collection of several hundred films by artists, available online in the Museum’s Filmoteka. “In the Heart of the Country” is the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s largest exhibition project to date. It reflects the full scale and scope of the Museum institution’s venture. Smaller elements of the collection were previously on show at the institution’s temporary headquarters, a residential building at No.3 Pańska Street (“Art Comes Before Gold” and “3xYES”), the Presidential Palace in Warsaw (“Today’s Art Makes Tomorrow’s Poland”) and exhibitions abroad: the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (“Early Years”), the Polish Institute in Rome (“Vede Cose Che Non Ci Sono”), and Moscow’s Belye Palaty (“Auditorium Moscow”). Individual works in the collection have been on loan to many prestigious museums and galleries in Poland and abroad. For example, Mirosław Bałka’s sculpture Black Pope and Black Sheep will feature in the main exhibi
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Ken Jacobs
Zhanna Kadyrova
Polina Kanis
Leszek Knaflewski
Olga Chernysheva
Anne Collier
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Julia Dault
Oskar Dawicki
Nathalie Djurberg
Jimmie Durham
Bracha L. Ettinger
Ruth Ewan
Omer Fast
Yona Friedman
Ion Grigorescu
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Wiktor Gutt
Waldemar Raniszewski
Sharon Hayes
Jonathan Horowitz
Sanja Iveković
Akademia Ruchu
Wojciech Krukowski
Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski’s Workshop Archive
Daniel Knorr
Paweł Althamer
Francis Alÿs
Mirosław Bałka
Yael Bartana
Wojciech Bąkowski
Miron Białoszewski
Cezary Bodzianowski
Geta Brătescu
Ivan Brazhkin
Wojciech Bruszewski
Michał Budny
Rafał Bujnowski
Duncan Campbell
Anna Zaradny
Stanisław Zamecznik
Akram Zaatari
Andrzej Wróblewski
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Helena Włodarczyk
Zbigniew Warpechowski
Piotr Uklański
Teresa Tyszkiewicz
David Ter-Oganyan
Alina Szapocznikow
Jan Styczyński
Frances Stark
Roman Stańczak
Jack Smith
Slavs and Tatars
Ahlam Shibli
Wael Shawky
Jacek Sempoliński
Jadwiga Sawicka
Wilhelm Sasnal
Bianka Rolando
Józef Robakowski
Mykola Ridnyi
Joanna Rajkowska
R.H. Quaytman
Seth Price
Marek Piasecki
Pratchaya Phinthong
Dan Perjovschi
Ewa Partum
Paulina Ołowska
Krzysztof Niemczyk
Deimantas Narkevičius
Laurel Nakadate
Teresa Murak
Aernout Mik
Gustav Metzger
Adrian Melis
Teresa Margolles
Goshka Macuga
Sarah Lucas
Klara Lidén
Zbigniew Libera
KwieKulik
Paweł Kwiek