Works purchased for the Collection in 2025
Roman Opałka's work, Opałka 1965/1 -∞, retail 2000381, 2014123, 2140381, 4339103, 4430918, 4444481, was acquired for the International Collection — Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
The work consists of six photographic prints depicting the artist's self-portrait and an audio recording of the artist's voice. It was created as a site-specific work and first shown at the Redukta exhibition (curated by Jurgen Blum-Kwiatkowski) at Ujazdowski Castle in 1991. The artist personally selected a location for it in one of the castle towers and was present during its arrangement, which was designed specifically for this location. In subsequent editions of the CSW-ZU Collection in the 1990s and 2000s, Opałka's work was always presented in the same, reserved space on the first floor of the north tower. It is one of those works that is indelibly linked to the programmatic history of our institution, the identity of Ujazdowski Castle, and one of the most important exhibitions held in Poland in the early 1990s.
Currently, the Collection comprises nearly 3,000 works, largely created after 1960. It includes objects representing both traditional and contemporary media: painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound, interactive, and multimedia works.
