Grażyna Kulczyk

Grażyna Kulczyk

Grażyna Kulczyk (1950–present) is a Polish investor, art collector and philanthropist. One of the wealthiest businesswomen in Poland, she is donating and building the Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts in Warsaw.[1][2]

According to Forbes, her fortune is worth 1.7 billion Polish zloty ($422 million).[1]

Kulczyk is the former wife of Jan Kulczyk with whom she had two children, Sebastian (born 1980) and Dominika (born 1977).[3]

Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts

The Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts (Polish: Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej i Performansu) is a proposed art museum being planned for Warsaw, Poland.[4][5] It is scheduled to open in 2018, the centennial of Polish independence. [1]

Kulczyk has committed 700 million Polish zloty ($174 million) to building a museum with 6,000-square-meter (64,500 square feet) of exhibition space.[1] Kulczyk's art collection includes more than 600 works of art; artists represented include Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Tadeusz Kantor, Roman Opalka, Antoni Tàpies, Anselm Kiefer, Joan Mitchell and Andy Warhol.[1][2] According to estimates published in the New York Times, the collection is valued at 100 million euros ($106 million).[1] Tadao Ando will design the museum building; the site has not yet been announced.[1]

A previous effort by Kulczyk to create the museum at Stary Browar, a vacated brewery, in her hometown of Poznań failed to win municipal approval.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Berendt, Joanna (30 November 2015). "Polish Philanthropist, Grazyna Kulczyk, Is Seeking to Open Museum in Warsaw". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Adam, Georgina (7 March 2014). "Grazyna Kulczyk's collection on show at Boadilla del Monte, Madrid". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Poland's richest man, Jan Kulczyk, dies at 65, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/29/uk-poland-kulczyk-idUKKCN0Q30PR20150729
  4. ↑ Michalska, Julia (25 November 2015). "Poland's richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Dłużewska, Emelia (24 November 2015). "Grażyna Kulczyk chce zbudować muzeum obok Centrum Nauki Kopernik". Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 2 December 2015.


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