Wrocław Contemporary Museum

Wrocław Contemporary Museum (Polish: Muzeum Współczene Wrocław; MWW), is a museum located in Wrocław, Poland. It was established in 2011. It develops relations with contemporary artists by exhibitions and educational events, while expanding its art collection.[1]

Wrocław Contemporary Museum
Wrocław Contemporary Museum
Established2011
Locationpl. Strzegomski 2a
53-681 Wrocław
Directordr Sylwia Świsłocka-Karwot
WebsiteMuzeum Współczesne Wrocław

Exhibitions

The museum's exhibition program focuses on promoting and popularizing local, progressive and recent phenomena of contemporary art.[2] Its collection in 2019 amounted to 318 objects by Polish and foreign artists. Its concept is based on the legacy of Jerzy Ludwiński, and his combination of conceptual art practice and social debate.

Headquarters

The air-raid shelter on Strzegomski Square in Wrocław was originally intended as a temporary home for the Museum.[3][4] It is the largest of the five air-raid shelters[5] built in Breslau in the 1940s, designed by Richard Konwiarz, the German architect who designed Berlin Olympic Stadium. It is a six-storey building of reinforced concrete. Its outer walls are over one meter thick, and the ceiling is one and a half meters thick. The German architect's shelters referred to the imperial style and to Napoleonic architecture, probably deliberately so as not to betray their function.

Sources

References
  1. Антон Шебетко (2017-09-25). "Хипстеры направо: Футбольные фанаты-радикалы в проекте Юлии Кривич". birdinflight.com (in Russian). Bird In Flight. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  2. "Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW) | Institution".
  3. Museum website
  4. Katarzyna Jagodzińska (2019). "Wrocław: Wrocław Contemporary Museum". Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe after 1989. Routledge. ISBN 9781351372091.
  5. Co się stało z naszą pracą, gdzie jest nasze wolne – wystawa „Stosunki pracy”. Karol Sienkiewicz. („Gazeta Wyborcza”, 13.06.2016) (in Polish)

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