{Live} – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

A conversation between two close friends about art. In the next event of the Live series, Linda Lach and Kamil Mizgała will explore practices that resist straightforward affirmation.

• The discussion will draw on Linda Lach’s artistic practice — working across sculpture, installation, delegated performance, and video. Her work is a continuous search for ways to hand over space to the audience, cultivating intimacy and gently destabilising form.

Lach’s practice investigates recurring translations and intimacy, employing performative sculptures, installations, video, and poetry. She works with materials such as wood, leather, cotton, plastic, and human milk. These material gestures amplify the presence of sculpture and performance while extending their social function, focusing on timelessness, self-exploitation, and acts of brutality that operate beyond conventional notions of safety and risk.

• Linda Lach (b. 1995) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2022 she received the Grand Prix for Best Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and in 2023 she was awarded the Strabag International Art Award. Her work has been shown at institutions including Salzburger Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Galeria Foksal, BWA Wrocław, Artagon Patin, GSW Opole, and during the Ars Electronica Festival.

Kamil Mizgała is a curator and art researcher whose practice spans artistic research, experimental investigation, and the creation and de-creation of exhibitions. He is interested in projects at the intersection of fantasy, queer theory, and institutional context, as well as “choreographies of selection” emerging from his private archive of experiences. He has collaborated with institutions including MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski, Galeria Wschód, WHOISPOLA, Galeria Promocyjna Warsaw, Galeria Labirynt Lublin, CSW Znaki Czasu Toruń, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Fringe Warszawa, PURO Art Collection, Galeria Rodriguez, and CK Zamek Poznań. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA.

{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.   
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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: dostepnosc@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.