Poland’s biggest art collector to set up museum
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
24.11.2015 17:29
Business tycoon Grażyna Kulczyk is gearing up to set up a Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts in Warsaw.
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The long-time patron of the arts is to hand over a collection worth up to EUR 100 million, to be showcased at a 6,000-square-meter exhibition space in the city center.
The country’s richest woman, former wife of Poland’s wealthiest businessman, the late Jan Kulczyk, is to finance the construction of the building, to be located next to the Copernicus Science Center according to preliminary plans.
Kulczyk’s art collection, the biggest in Poland, includes works by Polish and foreign artists alike, among them painters Władysław Strzemiński, Roman Opałka, Anselm Kiefer and Joan Mitchell.
The art collector, whose fortune is estimated at PLN 2.7 billion (EUR 0.6 bln), looks to open the museum on 11 November 2018, a date marking the centenary of Poland’s independence. (aba/rk)
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza