On location - a century of Polish art

The collection will open on August 10 in the Center for Contemporary Art in Ujazdowski Castle.

Part of the works featured has been made especially for the purpose of this exhibition, with the rest coming from a number of museum collections. The exhibition juxtaposes the work of artists from the youngest generation, such as Paulina Ołowska, Paweł Althamer, Joanna Rojkowska and the Łódź Kaliska group, with the doyens of 20th-century Polish art, such as Jacek Malczewski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Tadeusz Kantor, Edward Dwurnik and Witkacy, to name just a few.

The exhibition's leading theme is location. The curators want to take viewers on a journey through different artistic methods of defining the identity of cultural space. The common feature of all presented works of art - paintings, videos, installations, photos and sculptures - is that they refer to the artistic visions of cities and architecture: from modernist experiments through postmodernist projects to virtual spaces.

"Focused on contemporary times, the ways of perceiving local territories in the context of ongoing globalization, the exhibition gives you an outlook on traditions, especially the 20th-century concepts of defining art's attitude towards places," explain the curators.

The exhibition will run from August 10 to October 22, every day except for Mondays, from 11am to 7pm, and on Fridays to 9pm.