Sebastian Cichocki, a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, looks into the future to discover the Museum’s founding myth.

Thursday, January 14, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

At CEC ArtsLink
435 Hudson Street, 8th Floor
New York City

CEC ArtsLink will host a talk and video program showcasing the thriving contemporary art scene in Warsaw and dissecting the future role of the Museum scheduled to open this year in a neighborhood now dominated by the enormous Palace of Culture.

Space is limited, please respond by Tuesday, January 12 to Zhenia Stadnik at 212/643-1985 x26 or zstadnik@cecartslink.org.

Sebastian Cichocki (b. 1975) is an art critic, curator and sociologist. He has been working as a curator of the newly established Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw since 2008. In the years 2005 -2008 he was the director of Kronika Gallery – a Bytom centre for contemporary art (Upper Silesia, Poland). In 2007 Cichocki was a curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 52nd Art Biennale in Venice, where he presented an exhibition by Monika Sosnowska “1:1″. He is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and the author of numerous published works about art. He lectures at the Curatorial Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

 CEC ArtsLink thanks the Polish Cultural Institute in New York for cooperation.

 CEC ArtsLink Talks…  provides a forum for artists and arts professionals to present their work and to stimulate discourse on contemporary issues in the arts.

Image: Backstage photograph by Magda Wunsche from the production of a film by Yael Bartana “Wall and Tower” (2009).