Lecture: “Polish collections of contemporary art – artists, trends, collecting strategies”

September 25, 12:00

When compared to other European countries, such as Germany, Great Britain or Austria, the Polish art market is still relatively small. Yet, it is steadily growing and expanding onto new groups of investors. In addition to private apartments, in Poland, contemporary art is exhibited in hotel lobbies and in large spaces of modern office buildings. Private collections of contemporary art are a significant supplement to the collections stored and displayed by public cultural institutions.

The lecture will refer to the exhibition “Collection of the «Znaki czasu» Lesser Poland Foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art”, organised in 2006 at the BWA Gallery in Olkusz. The host will focus on the following questions: who and why collects contemporary art in Poland? Is collecting more than a capital investment? What collecting strategies dominate in Poland?

The lecture takes place online via Zoom. Admission is free. To receive a link to participate, please send an application to the following e-mail address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl.

Lecture from the series “Decades with Art”.

Lecturer:

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A graduate of the interdisciplinary programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and essays in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology “obraz/ciało” and co-editor of “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the Exercising Modernity programme (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she investigates the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.