Grażyna Kulczyk

Grażyna Kulczyk (1950–present) is a Polish investor, art collector and philanthropist. One of the wealthiest businesswomen in Poland, she is donating and building the Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts in Warsaw.

According to Forbes, her fortune is worth 1.7 billion Polish zloty ($422 million).

Kulczyk is the former wife of Jan Kulczyk with whom she had two children, Sebastian (born 1980) and Dominika (born 1977).

The Museum of Contemporary and Performance Arts (Polish: Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej i Performansu) is a proposed art museum being planned for Warsaw, Poland. It is scheduled to open in 2018, the centennial of Polish independence.

Kulczyk has committed 700 million Polish zloty ($174 million) to building a museum with 6,000-square-meter (64,500 square feet) of exhibition space. Kulczyk's art collection includes more than 600 works of art; artists represented include Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Tadeusz Kantor, Roman Opalka, Antoni Tàpies, Anselm Kiefer, Joan Mitchell and Andy Warhol. According to estimates published in the New York Times, the collection is valued at 100 million euros ($106 million).Tadao Ando will design the museum building; the site has not yet been announced.

A previous effort by Kulczyk to create the museum at Stary Browar, a vacated brewery, in her hometown of Poznań failed to win municipal approval.

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