Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is one of the oldest museums of modern art in the world. The Museum’s connections with the avant-garde date back to the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, when a group of radical artists from the “a.r.” group began gathering works of the most important artists of the day for the Museum. The action met with great interest of European avant-garde, making many outstanding artists, such as Fernand Leger, Max Ernst, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters to donate their works to the collection. The fact made the collection of the “a.r.” group a unique symbol of solidarity and cooperation of the avant-garde. The International Modern Art. Collection of the “a.r.” group, representing the main directions of art. such as Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Purism, Neoplasticism and Surrealism was open to public on 15th February 1931. The collection has since been consistently expanded by including international modern and contemporary artworks. Due to this fact Muzeum Sztuki is now the only museum in Poland with such extensive collection of world art of the 20th and 21st century.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) – Skopje is a symbol of solidarity which, as a lasting value, remains carved in the collective memory of the Macedonian public.

Founded in 1964 as a result of numerous donations of art works to the city of Skopje coming from artists and institutions from all over the world, the mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to nourish and disseminate the values of the modern and contemporary art defining the living culture and society of our times.

The distinctive authority of the MoCA is incorporated in the presentation, comprehension, social engagement and enjoyment in art. In addition to the precious collection, which provides a representative insight into the modern and contemporary art, the Museum will also continue to successfully pursue its mission – discovering and approximating the art values of our time and of the future.

WHAT ARE OUR GOALS

To preserve, protect, study and upgrade the collection of over 5,500 works of art and by exposing them to the judgment of the public to enable the understanding of contemporary art and society;

To organize and present exhibitions, manifestations, talks with artists, discussions with the public, film and video screenings, lectures, publications and other interdisciplinary programs as a result of the wide spectrum of contemporary cultural practices;

To reach equally to the regional and to the diversity of the global artistic aspects that relate to the open questions and perspectives that are posed before art and today’s societies;

To deepen the educational dimension of art and the role of the museum institution in developing awareness of the importance of nurturing and promoting cultural values;

To create a broad platform for critical dialogue that shapes our present.

The MoCA will remain a contemporary museum, which is open and accessible to all art admirers and lovers. Concurrently, it is identifiable as a place for spending time together and talking, for gatherings with or without a special occasion. It will communicate adequately with general public, enticing curiosity in terms of art so as to make museum visits a part of everyone’s everyday life. It will enable everyone to step out of their boundaries and join the global events in the sphere of culture and arts.

The MoCA will continue to be “a city meeting point” – the entrance into the cultural life of the city which takes the visitors to the contemporary artistic events at a national and international level.

The Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region (GASK) has changed its name and location several times during its existence. Founded in 1963 as the regional gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, it was part of Czechoslovakia’s wide-ranging network of state-run galleries. It was officially established at the Central Bohemian Gallery a year later, when it was split off from Regional Centre for Monument Preservation.

In May 2010, GASK opened its doors and began its exhibition activities in Kutná Hora. In 2013, renovation was completed on the final part of the Jesuit College, the northern wing, followed by the surrounding gardens. With the addition of visual playrooms, the impressive spaces of the Baroque pharmacy, the conference room and other exhibitions spaces, the gallery is now a unique cultural environment that is open to the broad public.

GASK is located in the former Jesuit College, one of the main architectural landmarks of Kutná Hora, a town inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Maribor Art Gallery opened its door on 8th February, 1954. Maribor thus received the first professional institution engaged in museum and gallery activity in the field of modern art. The city once again became a relatively important focal point for artistic and cultural activities, originating in tradition of the Grohar Art Club, going back to the 1920’s with its pioneering role in terms of organized artistic life in the city. By settling in the building on the corner of Strossmayerjeva and Orožnova Streets, UGM acquired about 800 m2 of exhibition space, which are completed with the representative Great and Pillar Halls. The central exhibition grounds are located in the former bourgeois palace from the first half of the 19th century and in the former church of a celestial monastery from the second half of the 18th century. After merging with the Rotovž Exhibition Hall in the 1980s, UGM acquired a department for contemporary art and additional presentation spaces in the city centre.

Today UGM acts as a regional museum of contemporary visual arts in the territory of its founder, the Municipality of Maribor and in the broader region of north-eastern Slovenia. It is one of the public cultural institutions of wider significance.

With its collection of more than 7,000 art works by Slovene artists from the end of the 19th century up to present, UGM is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations and interactive art projects.

Our mission is to:
• collect, preserve, present, interpret, research, document and protect Slovene cultural heritage in the field of visual art from the beginning of the 20th century to present time;
• present, promote and interpret contemporary Slovene and international visual art;
• educate the public about modern and contemporary visual art.

A the UGM one can – besides major names of Slovene visual art in the last hundred years – follow influential developments of international art scene, get acquainted with the rising stars of modern art and explore current themes in visual arts. With its collection and programme of around 12 special exhibitions a year – ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovenian authors to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions – UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia and internationally. Well-structured education programme joins different generations, ethnic groups and educational institutions.

https://www.ugm.si/en/

Moderna galerija is a national museum that works, in accordance with its mission, in the fields of modern and contemporary art. It was founded in 1947 as a museum of modern art. With Slovenia’s independence in 1991, Moderna galerija became the principal national institution of modern and contemporary art and an increasingly active link between the local and the international, in particular Central and Eastern European, contexts.

During the transition following the downfall of the Communist regime, Moderna galerija suffered financial problems and personnel shortage. Today’s vision of Moderna galerija is based on its history from the founding to the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the downfall of Socialism, on the strong experience of the Balkan wars, the transition period and critical awareness of the increasing globalisation processes. The concept of museum advocated by Moderna galerija follows its own way and resists the existing hegemonic models. In the crucial period of the 1990’s, Moderna galerija refused to become a postmodern museum of sensations and intense experiences; on the threshold of the new millennium it fairly clearly developed the concept of an art museum that advocates the plurality of narratives and priorities of local spaces that intend to enter equal dialogues with other spaces only with their own symbolic capital.

Since 2011, Moderna galerija has operated on two locations: in the original building of Moderna galerija (MG+) in the centre of Ljubljana and in the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) located on the renovated premises of former military barracks. The concept of Moderna galerija as a museum of modern and contemporary art was initiated in the early 1990’s, at the time of a strong need to allow more space for the previously neglected contemporary art and form closer links with the international space as well as with the national history and the historical moment then marked by the war and the new political geography of Europe. In contrast to the past decades, Moderna galerija began to show the interest in the present moment, which involved a different, but no less responsible addressing of the past. This initiated the processes that acquired their first tangible form in the Instrument of Constitution of Moderna galerija (2004) that defines the difference between the museum of modern art and museum of contemporary art as follows.

https://www.mg-lj.si/en/