20.09.2024, 19:00 - 22:00
On September 20, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition 'Making New Worlds Instead of Giving Peace.' We will present over 30 video works from 1973–2018 from the collection of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, as well as three computer-generated works that draw on the aesthetics of early video works.
Most of the selected works for this occasion (films, video installations, or video objects) have already been presented at the Ujazdowski Castle. Some of them were created here, as part of projects carried out here for many years. The video art from the castle's collection has not been shown in a separate exhibition until now. For the first time, these works will reveal their potential in a diverse, broad context.
The work of video artists, or more broadly media art, has been part of the program of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art since the first half of the 1990s, thanks to the curator Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, who worked here at that time. Piotr Krajewski – one of the organizers of the WRO Media Art Biennale – emphasizes that the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art was a pioneer in the presentation of video art in Poland.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the work of Wojciech Bąkowski, as this phrase resonates interestingly with the particular moment in which the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art currently finds itself, gathering forces and energy for a new opening.🪽
Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Piotr Bosacki, Karolina Breguła, Hubert Czerepok, Oskar Dawicki, Izabella Gustowska, Heidrun Holzfeind, Zuzanna Janin, Christian Jankowski, C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska, Marcus Kaiser and Andree Korpys, as well as Markus Löffler, Anna Konik, Dominik Lejman, Norman Leto, Zbigniew Libera, Anna Molska, Dominika Olszowy, Franciszek Orłowski, Tony Oursler, Agnieszka Polska, Karol Radziszewski, Joanna Rajkowska, Józef Robakowski, Konrad Smoleński, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Marek Zygmunt, Alicja Żebrowska, Artur Żmijewski.
Curator: Ewa Gorządek
Curatorial collaboration: Marta Grytczuk, Sara Szostak.
Coordinator: Joanna Saran
Audio-video editing: Krzysztof Klósek.
Information about the accompanying program for the exhibition will appear in September on the website https://u-jazdowski.pl/program/wystawy/robienie-nowych-swiatow-zamiast-dac-spokoj 🔗