Krakow Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków ( MOCAK , abbreviation for Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków ) ( Polish: Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie ) is a municipal cultural institution, founded on February 1, 2010 and opened on May 19, 2011.
The museum is located in the rooms of the former Oskar Schindler enamel factory in Krakow , adjacent to another museum that depicts the time of the German occupation of Krakow from 1939 to 1945 and is named after this factory. In 2004, the Kraków municipality bought the old factory building with the surrounding area and used it for museum purposes.
The collections consist mainly of works of art from the last two decades. The art historian and art theorist Maria Anna Potocka has held the post of director since it opened.
The purpose of the exhibition is to convey and explain contemporary art to various groups of visitors. The museum conducts research and publishes books on modern art.
The collections contain works by artists from Poland and abroad.
The design for the redesign of the museum building was selected in a competition in 2007. Construction work based on the design by Italian architects Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli began in 2009. A new building was built, and six old factory buildings were adapted for museum purposes. The exhibition rooms have around four thousand square meters of floor space, the total area is around ten thousand square meters. The construction costs amounted to about 70 million zlotys, half of which was donated from the funds of the European Union .
The MOCAK bookstore offers books on modern art as well as objets d'art.
The temporary exhibitions organized by the museum are often the subject of heated discussions, not just among art critics. One of the exhibitions was dedicated to the Auschwitz photographer Wilhelm Brasse .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 52 ″ N , 19 ° 57 ′ 40 ″ E