21/01/2026
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Meeting with Adam Adach
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During the {Na żywo} evening, we invite you to a meeting with Adam Adach — an artist who for over three decades has been developing a practice centred on memory, narrative, and relationships with others.
- As part of his own performative, story-based format, which he titled You Have Something for Me. A Subjective Cartography with the Artist in the Background, Adam Adach will guide us through projects that emerged through conversations, encounters, and mutual influences — moments in which art begins with a meeting with another person, a place, a book, a history or a herstory.
- The artist will also speak about his most recent project, currently being developed in Portugal. The evening will conclude with Adam Adach and his partner Fred performing their own version of the well-known song “Bei mir bist du shejn”.
- Adam Adach works across painting, drawing, installation, and video. Through a range of techniques, he creates works with layered meanings in which memory — both collective and personal — plays a central role. His practice is grounded in narrative, juxtaposing grand History with quiet, often anonymous microhistories, and global processes with local, intimate experiences of identity.
- For Adach, making art is a way of engaging with the complexity of the contemporary world, shaped by his own sensitive and reflective way of being and perceiving reality. His approach has been informed by art studies in Lyon and Paris, as well as by experiences of living and working in different countries. In his work, reflections on the body and landscape — often marked by violence and politics — intersect with archives of intolerance movements and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century dictatorships.
- Trained as a veterinary surgeon, he incorporates ecological concerns and reflections on the Anthropocene into his artistic practice. Data from the natural sciences provide impulses for works addressing relationships between humans and more-than-human animals. An important aspect of his experience has also been many years of conducting art workshops in psychiatric institutions.
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{Live}
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- We host both artists who have previously taken part in Ujazdowski Castle’s programme and those making their debut. In this series, we would like to focus on individual approaches and artistic practices.
- Why take part?
- The events will be recorded for archival purposes, and the recordings will be made available online through the Mediateka.
- In times of tensions and crises, thinking and talking together about contemporary art – which responds to today’s challenges in unconventional ways – helps strengthen social resilience. Art is not only the object – just as important are the process, the thinking, the emotions, and the relationships that accompany it. The meetings offer a closer look at how art is created and, most importantly, who creates it.
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- The meetings are open to everyone, from people working professionally in culture and art, to those who are curious about artists and their work, or simply want to talk about art.
- We do our best to make the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art accessible to everyone – we would like to adapt the event to you and your needs. To help us do that, please contact our accessibility coordinator: dostepnosc@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
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