Neither Water Nor Land – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Neither Water Nor Land

• Collective exhibition

We invite you to enter a landscape where time flows non-linearly, and what is repressed persists in the humid present. The marshes act as archives here, preserving traces of violence, migration, and concealment, while simultaneously serving as a place of refuge. This is a space where divisions blur: between life and death, nature and politics, the visible and the hidden.

• Artists 
  • Zainab Aldehaimy, Roisin Agnew, Hoda Afshar, Centrala (Małgorzata Kuciewicz i Simone De Iacobis), Alia Farid, Katarzyna Hertz, Breda Lynch, Teresa Margolles, Philipp Modersohn, Vica Pacheco, Stach Szumski, Iza Tarasewicz, Zhang Xu Zhan, Zorka Wollny, Glenda Zapata
• Curators
  • Anna Czaban, Krzysztof Gutfrański

About the series

• Creative tours, during which we primarily discuss art and ask it questions—in various ways. The guide introduces participants to the history of the presented phenomena and the main themes of the exhibition. It explains the current shape of contemporary art, the social, political, and cultural changes that have had the greatest impact on it, and the breakthrough moments that shaped the artistic language artists use today.
  • This is a form of encounter with art that develops mindfulness, the ability to argue, and the ability to formulate independent judgments. Instead of ready-made answers, we propose shared thinking and action around art.
• After the introduction, we invite participants to a conversation. The exhibition is not a closed story – it gains meaning in contact with the viewer. The viewer is not a passive observer, but a co-creator of meaning. The tour thus becomes a space for the exchange of thoughts, interpretations, and experiences. We discuss how we perceive the work, what moves us, what raises objections, and what questions arise.
  • The course of each meeting is individually planned before the visit to suit the level and interests of the group.