{Live} – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Body, gesture and image in action — at the next Live event, Izabela Chamczyk will talk about her artistic practice, developed at the intersection of painting, performance and video. The meeting will take place on 8 July in the Studio.

• The conversation will focus on Chamczyk's concept of performative painting — a process in which the image emerges as a record of action, bodily presence and time. Her works are process-based, sensuous and intensely physical, exploring the relationship between material, emotion and the viewer's experience. Chamczyk frequently moves beyond the conventions of the traditional exhibition format, engaging audiences in direct, affective encounters and taking art beyond the neutral space of the gallery.

Izabela Chamczyk is a visual artist and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where she completed her degree in painting with distinction. She has received scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the National Recovery Plan for Culture (KPO for Culture), and has been a finalist in numerous competitions, including the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award at MOCAK, the Artistic Journey of Hestia competition, the Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale and the Eugeniusz Geppert Competition.

• Her work has been exhibited in Poland and internationally, including at Foksal Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Zachęta Project Room, as well as in Iran, Israel and Russia. Her works are held in both public and private collections, including the collections of the National Museums and the Performance Archive of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

{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. 

• 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.