29/10/2025
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Meeting with Alicja Rogalska
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Is it possible to imagine society differently – through communal singing, fictional law, role-playing games or speculative excursions? In Alicja Rogalska’s practice, art becomes a field of experimentation where everyday life and politics merge into a critical yet hopeful commentary.
- Rogalska is a Polish-British interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin and working internationally. Her research-driven practice focuses on social structures and the political dimensions of daily life. She arranges collective situations, creates performances, films and installations, engaging with people from diverse backgrounds – migrants, workers, activists, scientists and rural residents – to explore emancipatory ideas for the future. Dialogue and collaboration are central to her work, which often takes the form of utopian scenarios investigating solidarity, agency and the imagination of alternative social models.
- Her projects have been presented at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin, 2024–25), Matter of Art Biennale (Prague, 2024), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2024), Videobrasil Biennale (São Paulo, 2023–24), New Contemporaries (London and Blackpool, 2023–24), Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, 2023), Urbane Künste Ruhr (Essen, 2023), Berlin Art Prize / Scherben (2022), Manifesta 14 (Pristina, 2022), Temporary Gallery (Cologne, 2021–22), Kunsthalle Wien (2020–21) and OFF-Biennale (Budapest, 2020–21).
- She is currently pursuing doctoral research at the Department of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Rogalska was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme (2020–21) and has undertaken residencies at Villa Kamogawa Goethe-Institut (Kyoto, 2025), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (2023), the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Essex (2019–22), the City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019) and the Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019).
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Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
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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.
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- Why take part?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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, Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
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