Upcoming meeting: ✨ 03/12, during the {Live} series meeting, Agnieszka Mastalerz will talk about her artistic practice. The artist will present the process in which everyday objects, images, shapes, or social situations become the impulse to start creative work. At the center of her interests are relationships between vulnerable beings: people, plants, and animals. In her works, she analyzes structures based on hierarchy and moments where abuse, coercion, or control may occur. One example is the motif of supports for plants, used both in botanical gardens and mass cultivation (in English, supports). These are rigid, often metal elements that enable growth while imposing its direction. In the artist's work, they become a metaphor for the ambivalent relationship between support and supervision, between freedom of development and its architectural framing. The process of photographic documentation of these forms allowed them to be abstracted from their original context and then transformed into sculptural objects. Scaled in relation to the female body, they took on the function of props in later choreographic and film work. Agnieszka Mastalerz is a graduate of Mirosław Bałka's Spatial Activities Studio at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2018), completed a guest stay in the studio of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (DAAD scholarship for the academic year 2019/2020), and previously in the studio of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg (2017/2018). She graduated in cultural studies from the University of Warsaw (2013) and completed a postgraduate course at Malmö Art Academy (2024). Her works have been shown at, among others, the Ekrani i Artit festival in Shkodra, Królikarnia – a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw, Krupa Art Foundation in Wrocław (2025), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in Bucharest (2024), NS-Dokumentazionszentrum in Munich (2023), MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, eastcontemporary gallery in Milan, Manifesta 14 in Pristina (2022), Fabbri Schenker Projects in London, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato (2021), Wschód gallery in Warsaw (2020), Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw (2019), Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (2018), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (as laureate of the Artistic Journey of Hestia competition, 2017). She was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2025), Susch Museum in Switzerland, Artist Development Program at the European Investment Bank Institute in Luxembourg (2021), and Futura gallery in Prague (Visegrad Fund Scholarship, 2020). At the beginning of 2026, she will have a residency at Vila 31 Art Explora in Tirana, and at the beginning of 2027 – a residency at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. She participated in Lucy Artist Residency Talks in Kavala (2022) and in School of Expressions at PLATO in Ostrava (2019). Agnieszka Mastalerz's works are in collections including Fondazione in Between Art Film Beatrice Bulgari, Ergo Hestia Group, European Investment Bank, and Warsaw Ghetto Museum. About the series: Every week we meet live with female artists, male artists, and artistic individuals to talk about art: creative processes, works, current experiences. Some people will appear for the first time, others have already visited the Center for Contemporary Art. In this series, we want to focus on individual attitudes and artistic practices. Why is it worth participating? In times of tension and crisis, collective thinking and conversations about contemporary art, which responds to the challenges of the present in unconventional ways, help strengthen social resilience. Art is not just an object. Equally important are: process, thinking, emotions, and relationships. Live meetings will allow you to take a close look at how art is created and – above all – who creates it. Events are open to everyone: to those professionally involved in culture and art, as well as to those who are curious about its creators. Or simply want to talk about art. Upcoming meetings: - 10/12 – Karolina Jarzębak - 17/12 – Katrzyna Górna - 07/01 – Arek Pasożyt - 14/01 – Konrad Smoleński We record the meetings for archival purposes. They go to the Mediatheque, where interested people can watch them online. We want the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art to be for everyone. To adapt the event to you and your needs, please contact our accessibility coordinator Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday preceding the meeting. Visual identification: Nicola Cholewa #live Every week we meet live with female artists, male artists, and artistic individuals to talk about art: creative processes, works, current experiences. Some will appear for the first time, others have already visited the Center for Contemporary Art. In this series, we want to focus on individual positions and artistic practices. Why is it worth participating? In times of tension and crisis, collective thinking and conversations about contemporary art, which responds to the challenges of the present in unconventional ways, help strengthen social resilience. Art is not just an object. Equally important are: process, thinking, emotions, and relationships. Live meetings will allow you to take a close look at how art is born and – above all – who creates it. Events are open to everyone: to those professionally involved in culture or art, as well as to those interested in its creators. Or simply want to talk about art. We record the meetings for archival purposes. They go to the Mediatheque, where everyone interested can watch them online. We care that the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art is open to everyone. To adapt the event to you and your needs, please contact our accessibility coordinator Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday preceding the event. Visual identification: Nicola Cholewa #live
