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03/10/2025 — 15/02/2026
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Opening: 03/10/2025 at 19:00
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Admission free.
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (EN):
How do we tell stories today? Narratives no longer unfold linearly—they branch, fragment, and fail. The group exhibition IF/THEN at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle examines the conditional collections of linguistic rules from which stories are constructed in the age of algorithms, games, and digital culture.
The exhibition title, borrowed from programming language, refers to the most basic condition: if this happens, then that follows. Every action unfolds between condition and consequence. Many works use game mechanics, interactive installations, speculative fiction, and glitch strategies to show how stories can be written, rewritten, or disrupted.
The exhibition suggests we live in a post-narrative state: storytelling has not ended but is spreading into new forms. IF/THEN shows that even the smallest choice—a glance, a step, a pause—can redirect a story onto another track. Glitches, freezes, and errors are methods here, not failures; they create cracks through which new meanings slip.
The exhibition’s accompanying narrative is constructed in dialogue with the displayed works: it functions as guide and counterpoint, sometimes disturbance, reminding us that every exhibition is also a story experienced in a unique way. The show does not offer solutions or escape routes but provides a space for a conscious, critical, and playful encounter with the conditions of our present.
