Ujazdowski: IF/THEN

Ujazdowski Castle CCA: IF/THEN

Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art
Warsaw, Poland

October 3, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Curated by Sara Szostak and Marta Grytczuk

“How can we tell stories today? Narratives no longer unfold linearly – they branch, fragment, and mislead. The group exhibition IF/THEN at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art examines the conditionality of the linguistic rules from which stories are constructed in the age of algorithms, games, and digital culture.”

“ IF/THEN shows that even the smallest decision – a glance, a step, a pause – can redirect the story onto another path. Many of the works celebrate breakdowns – glitches, jams, and errors – treated not as failures but as methods that open cracks through which new meanings slip, creating moments in which the story unexpectedly turns in another direction. These carriers of discord draw attention to the politics of narrative: who has the right to tell the story, who is inscribed within it, and what remains unsaid.”

--- Sara Szostak and Marta Grytczuk, curatorial statement