Joanna Mytkowska

Joanna Mytkowska is a Polish curator and art critic. She has been the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw since 2007. She is the co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, which since 2001 has been operating independently from the Foksal Gallery.

Early life and education Mytkowska studied at the University of Warsaw from 1988 to 1994.

Career Mytkowska was the curator of the Artur Żmijewski exhibition at the Polish Pavilion during the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

She organized the following exhibits for the Centre Georges Pompidou: Paweł Althamer (2006), The Magellanic Cloud (2007), The Anxious (2008) and Promises of the Past (2010).

Mytkowska was a member of the selection committee for Documenta 14, which took place in 2017. She was also a member of the jury that selected Kerstin Brätsch for the Edvard Munch Art Award in 2017.

Recognition In December 2018 Mytkowska was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for her curatorial and intellectual achievements at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.