27/06—26/10/2025
upcoming exhibition
Soil and Friends
- What can we learn from plants? Can knowledge about soil deepen our understanding of humanity’s place in the world? Why are more and more artists migrating from the field of art to the cultivation of land? How can art institutions consciously support ecological imagination?
- Soil and Friends is an interdisciplinary artistic and research project that combines art and ecology. It includes a group exhibition, an educational and performative programme, artist residencies, and site-specific activities. The narrative framework of the project is built around the relationships between humans and the land — as territory, ground, and soil; the entangled stories of plants, humans, and non-human beings; various ways of coexisting with and experiencing the world; and the intersections of art with the practices of cultivating and caring for the land.
- The surroundings of Ujazdowski Castle — its park and the Vistula escarpment — have for many years provided a space for research and action at the intersection of art and ecology. Soil and Friends builds on previous initiatives, continuing the reflection on art as a space for shared experience of nature.
- In 2026, the second instalment of the exhibition will take place at PLATO in Ostrava.
- Participating artists
- Milena Bonilla, Centrala, Julia Ciunowicz, Yoeri Guépin, Małgorzata Kępa, Kateřina Konvalinová & Judita Levitnerová, Krzysztof Maniak, Maksud Ali Mondal, Deirdre O’Mahony, Julia Reznak, Anna Siekierska, Sounding Soil, Salka Tiziana, Ewelina Węgiel, Anka Wandzel, Jaśmina Wójcik, Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
- Curators
- Marianna Dobkowska and Edith Jeřábková
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