Overview

The Warsaw Institute for Modern and Contemporary Asian Art (WIMCAA) Foundation is a non-commercial organization registered in Poland and operating worldwide, conducting large-scale projects and academic work in the sphere of Asian and global art. Warsaw Institute for Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Foundation spread and providing curatorial and consulting services. It carries out interdisciplinary academic research, creates a new platform for curatorial studies on contemporary Asian art, and provides a residency program for emerging artists from the East and West. The WIMCAA Foundation was created by an art academician, curator, and art professionalist Elvira Eevr Djaltchinova. In the international artistic milieu the activity of the Foundation was referred to as “The Silk Road 2.0” already a year before its launch. The name refers to the trade route from China to overseas countries that passed through Poland in Medieval times and fully matches the “One Belt, One Road” development strategy proposed by Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping in 2013. In 2017, connectivity and cooperation among countries, primarily between the People’s Republic of China and the rest of Eurasia, should gain a brand new language of communication, which is art. Proud to say, this language will be created and provided to the rest of the world by Poland.