A New Museum and the Impermanent Canon
Four Takes on the MSN Collection
Published on 4. September 2025
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-83-67598-20-0 (ISBN)
Description
A timely reflection on the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's collection.
The opening of a new museum building offers a unique moment for reflection and reinvention. This book explores the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's collection as a lens through which to critically examine the very institutions of the art museum, collecting practices, and artistic canon in the present day.
Leading voices in contemporary art and museum studies contribute a range of perspectives on crucial questions: How do museums navigate their historical and political contexts? How can they better engage and represent diverse communities? What does it mean to decolonize a museum collection? Through insightful analysis and case studies, this volume charts a path for museums to embrace their evolving role in an increasingly complex world.
The opening of a new museum building offers a unique moment for reflection and reinvention. This book explores the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's collection as a lens through which to critically examine the very institutions of the art museum, collecting practices, and artistic canon in the present day.
Leading voices in contemporary art and museum studies contribute a range of perspectives on crucial questions: How do museums navigate their historical and political contexts? How can they better engage and represent diverse communities? What does it mean to decolonize a museum collection? Through insightful analysis and case studies, this volume charts a path for museums to embrace their evolving role in an increasingly complex world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Warsaw
Poland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
60
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
688 gr
ISBN-13
978-83-67598-20-0 (9788367598200)
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Joanna Mytkowska is an art historian and curator of numerous exhibitions, including the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2005 (Artur Zmijewski's Repetition). Cofounder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, she also worked at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Since 2007, she has been the director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2018, she was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.