The Museum of Modern Art new icon in Plac Centralny

If, during the Stalin era, the totemic Palace of Science and Culture was the architectural beacon of Soviet-style political power, shaped like a syringe with the tip pointing towards the sky, now it is the Museum of Modern Art that is iconic and a point of reference for the new generations. Its white minimalist silhouette stands out in the immensity of Plac Centralny in front of the glass and steel silhouettes that dictate the Polish city's new skyline. Director Joanna Mytkowska has chosen for the first exhibition phase four thousand works created in the 36 years since demarcation returned to the country. In particular, one enters with works by Magdalena Abakanowicz Mirosław Bałka, Wilhelm Sasnal and Ewa Juszkiewicz. The counterpart to this institution focused on the present day is the Neon Museum, which instead aims to shed light on the past, but in a certainly captivating way through the exhibition of public and private illuminations that were lit during the Cold War period, showing the quality of local graphic art.