In the last two decades we have been observing growth in the number of modern art museums and galleries. Demand for these kinds of institutions bodes well for the future, because it is an expression of the need to commune with modern art, and not only with works affirming the past and tradition. Robert Kuśmirowski’s project may be a paradoxical phenomenon for any art observer. The Muzeum Sztuki Zdeponowanej by Robert Kuśmirowski is a controversial proposal including a new archive of contemporary art. For the needs of the project, the artist collects works by famous artists and subjects them to a process of destruction. He burns the works and then places them in urns and displays them in special showcases. Kuśmirowski describes his action as “carrying out of public services for art, consisting in conduct of complex recycling, in the scope of art liquidation and accumulation of unwanted and useless works.”

The first edition of the Muzeum Sztuki Zdeponowanej was held in Naples in the Morra Greco Foundation, during which 12 works, by Kuśmirowski himself, as well as by other artists, were burnt. An exhibition in the Bytom Kronika, which will be opened until the 26th of May 2011, is the fourth edition of the event.
Robert Kuśmirowski was a guest of last year’s edition of ArtBoom Festival.