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Article: CCA Warsaw beyond ruins.(Centre for Contemporary Art, services)
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- September 1, 2005
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For the past 16 years, the non-profit Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw, Poland has been forging a unique niche among the world's arts spaces through the exhibition and creation of contemporary art forms. Housed in the re-purposed Ujazdowski castle, the CCA is one of the largest spaces of its kind in Eastern Europe, featuring a variety of programs in numerous disciplines from visual media to sound art, including galleries, educational workshops, a film archive and artist residencies.
The castle, located near downtown Warsaw, was built and rebuilt countless times since its original construction in the seventeenth century. Like many buildings in the city, ...