A self-portrait of the Poles?
Meeting with Dorota Monkiewicz and Monika Szewczyk

The Open Museum invites to a meeting with Dorota Monkiewicz and Monika Szewczyk, as part of the series “A self-image of the Poles?”, which takes a closer took at key collections of contemporary Polish art, looking for an answer to a question what the collections communicate about contemporary Poland: what story they narrate, what perspective they refer to.

Dorota Monkiewicz is a co-creator of the Program Concept for the Contemporary Art Museum in Wrocław. Before she became involved in work connected with its inception in 2009, she was a curator of modern art at the National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) as well as a founder of the Foundation for Contemporary Art at NMW.

Monika Szewczyk is a director at Galeria Arsenał, a gallery in Białystok, where for the last twenty years she has consistently executed her own educational and exhibition program. Apart from exhibitions, the gallery as one of the few in Poland collects works of contemporary art.

Joanna Mytkowska and Sebastian Cichocki will talk with Dorota Monkiewicz and Monika Szewczyk about the perspectives of enhancing the collection, as well as about institutions and how to create new narratives for them.