Ujazdów Castle

The first castle on the spot was erected by the Dukes of Masovia as early as the 13th century. However, in the following century their court was moved to the future Royal Castle in Warsaw, and the Ujazdów Castle fell into neglect. In the 16th century, a wooden manor was built there for Queen Bona Sforza. . The ruins of the castle of the Mazovian princes were then incorporated into a new fortified manor built by King Sigismund III Vasa for his son, future King Władysław IV Vasa. In 1975, however, the works on reconstruction of the castle to its 18th-century design were given a green light, and the project by Piotr Biegański was chosen. ==Centre for Contemporary Art==

The castle houses the Centre for Contemporary Art, with its collections and temporary exhibitions, concerts and educational workshops. In 2017, Piotr Bernatowicz was appointed director by the Polish culture minister Piotr Glinski, a member of the Law and Justice Party. In an email interview to the New York Times, Bernatowicz said that the Polish art world is, in his words, "dominated by a left-wing, precisely neo-Marxist ideology... Artists who do not adopt this ideology are marginalized". The article further said that "Mr. Bernatowicz wants to change that and promote artists who have other views: conservative, patriotic, pro-family. His plans are transforming the museum into the latest battleground in Poland's culture wars, which pit liberals against the governing populist Law and Justice Party, as well as other conservative groups." Ujazdów Castle has exhibited numerous well known artists: • Magdalena Abakanowicz • Paweł Althamer • Eric Andersen • Janusz Bałdyga • Mirosław Bałka • Wojciech Bąkowski • Krzysztof Bednarski • Jerzy Bereś • Christian Boltanski • Włodzimierz Borowski • Bermet Borubaeva • George Brecht • Wojciech Bruszewski • Tomasz Ciecierski • Matt Collishaw • Atilla Csorgo • Zbigniew Dłubak • Andrzej Dłużniewski • Stanisław Dróżdż • Edward Dwurnik • Stefan Gierowski • Zbigniew Gostomski • Maurycy Gomulicki • Katarzyna Górna • Izabella Gustowska • Lynn Hershman • Jenny Holzer • IRWIN • Zuzanna Janin • Piotr Jaros • Zdzisław Jurkiewicz • Koji Kamoji • Ilya Kabakov • Jerzy Kałucki • Marek Kijewski • Joseph Kosuth • Piotr Kowalski • Jarosław Kozłowski • Katarzyna Kozyra • Edward Krasiński • Barbara Kruger • Zofia Kulik • Oleg Kulik • Paweł Kwiek • Natalia LL • Dominik Lejman • Norman Leto • Zbigniew Libera • Richard Long • Hanna Łuczak • Marcin Maciejowski • Robert Maciejuk • Jarosław Modzelewski • Teresa Murak • David Nash • Roman Opałka • Tony Oursler • Dennis Oppenheim • Michelangelo Pistoletto • Wojciech Prażmowski • Mariola Przyjemska • Karol Radziszewski • Joanna Rajkowska • Józef Robakowski • Ursula von Rydingsvard • Wilhelm Sasnal • Mikołaj Smoczyński • Marek Sobczyk • Daniel Spoerri • Henryk Stażewski • Andrzej Szewczyk • Leon Tarasewicz • Tomasz Vetulani • Aleksandra Waliszewska • Zbigniew Warpechowski • Lawrence Weiner • Emmet Williams • Ryszard Winiarski • Krzysztof Wodiczko • Krzysztof Zarębski • Artur Żmijewski • Vasiliy Ryabchenko ==Gallery==

File:Exterior of the Ujazdów Castle 2.jpg|Ujazdów Castle File:Front facade of the Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, 2019.jpg|Entrance to Castle File:Drottningholm Lejon entre 01.JPG|Marble lion from Ujazdów Castle by anonymous Italian scul-tor, 1630s, Drottningholm Palace File:Drottningholm lejon vid slottsentrén 03.jpg|Marble lion from Ujazdów Castle by anonymous Italian sculptor, 1630s, Drottningholm Palace File:Kanał Piaseczyński, widok z ul. Myśliwieckiej w kierunku Zamku Ujazdowskiego.jpg|Piaseczyński Canal seen from Myśliwiecka Street File:Kanał Piaseczyński widziany z tarasu Zamku Ujazdowskiego.jpg|View of Royal Canal from Castle terraces File:Ujazdowski Castle 02.jpg|Castle tower ==See also==