A place for contemporary art from Eastern Europe

"Museums all over the world have begun to collect art from Eastern Europe. If we want to see Romanian art we'll soon have to travel to Paris or London. It's only in these cities that the true value of works of art from Eastern Europe is appreciated. We must try to change this," Joanna Mytkowska, director of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, explains in an interview with Dorota Jarecka. She wants to make this contemporary art the focal point of the museum's collection. "If art from Eastern Europe is the focus of the Warsaw museum's collection, this is testimony to its uniqueness and appeal. Until now only non-governmental institutions have taken the region's art seriously; it is being buoyed up from below by artists, curators and critics... Great Eastern European artists are still waiting to be discovered."

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