On December 15, 2005, Mr. Lech Kaczynski, the newly elected President of the Republic of Poland, accompanied by Mr. Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, presided over the opening ceremony of the architectural competition for the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
The initiative to create the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is a joint project of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage on the one hand, and of the Mayor of Warsaw, supported by a resolution of Warsaw Municipal Council, on the other hand.
The authors of the Museum project fully expect that the Museum of Modern Art In Warsaw will stand out among other similar facilities because of the following factors:
- the Museum will house users and processes, rather than spectators and objects;
- the Museum has a unique location adjacent to the Palace of Culture and Science, and hence is endowed with a special moral and historical context;
- the Museum building is an attractive structure;
- the art collection groups high-quality, unique items;
- the Museum intentionally projects its presence into the city's public space.
A Preliminary Concept for The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw was prepared and adopted by the Museum Programme Advisory Board on August 28, 2005, and subsequently, on September 12, 2005, was recommended by the Board of the Museum as the departure point for further work on the program, as well as for preparations for an international competition for the design of the Museum.
28.02.2006 (until 4:00 p.m. Warsaw time) - Submission of applications for admission to the Competition
17-19.03.2006 - Competition Jury proceedings – formal verification
20.03.2006 - Notification of Participants of their admission to the competition and delivery of invitations to submit competition entries
07.04.2006 - Seminar
28.04.2006 - Submission of enquiries
14.06.2006 (until 4:00 p.m. Warsaw time) - Submission of competition entries
16-30.06.2006 - Competition Jury deliberations
The Competition jury will consist of the following 13 persons:
Pawel Althamer - artist, Warsaw
Christie Binswanger - architect, Herzog and de Meuron, Basel
Michal Borowski (President) - Chief Architect of the City of Warsaw
Jerzy Grochulski (chief referent) - architect, Warsaw
Ryszard Jurkowski (vice President) - President of the Association of Polish Architects
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani - architect and urban planner, Milan
Bohdan Paczowski - architect and art critic, Luxembourg
Anda Rottenberg - Chair of the Program Committee; the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Andrzej Rottermund - Director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw
Sir Nicholas Serota - Director of Tate Galery, London
Deyan Sudjic - architecture critic, the Kurator of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004, London
Adam Szymczyk - Director, Kunsthalle, Basel
Tadeusz Zielniewicz - Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Project
Monetary awards shall be as follows:
a) 1st prize – to the Competition Participant invited to take part in proceedings for the award of the public contract – PLN 160,000,
b) 2nd prize – PLN 120,000,
c) 3rd prize – PLN 100,000.
d) At least 10 prizes of PLN 80,000 each will be awarded to Participants whose competition entries receive honorable mentions from the Competition Jury.