Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister

According to Marianna Dobkowska, a curator at the Re-Directing East programme at the gallery, that has actually been with the CCA for over a years, the “news brings long-awaited relief and brings new hope for much-needed adjustments at the establishment.”

The step comes on the heels of a number of questionable exhibits and projects advertised under Bernatowicz’s stewardship, including a collateral event throughout the Venice Biennale including the musician Ignacy Czwartos, whose Polish pavilion was canceled and changed by the culture minister.

Dobkowska informs The Art Newspaper: “The imaginative community is worthy of a castle handled wisely by skilled individuals. The previous 4.5 years have been a really dark period for both personnel and the creative community. Numerous terrific people have left the team, I are among minority that survived this duration and it is a cheerful day for us.”

Almost 5 years after taking the helm of Warsaw’s leading contemporary art organization, the Ujazdowski Castle (CCA), Piotr Bernatowicz has been eliminated from his article by the Polish priest of society, Hanna Wróblewska.

According to the preacher, Bernatowicz was dismissed on 24 June “due to irregularities” of “public financial resources”.

In a declaration uploaded on the ministry’s internet site, a public telephone call will certainly now happen to locate a long-term supervisor. “Among the jobs the brand-new director will face will certainly be to start conversations regarding the future of the establishment with a generally stood for creative community.”