It is the first show to present a broader overview of Icelandic art to Polish audiences.
The Two-Headed: Art of Iceland is spread across the Orangery and Coach House galleries as well as the Sculpture Park, and brings together installations, video, sound, photography, sculpture and performance.
Most works have been created on site, using the centre's own workshop facilities.
The exhibition takes its name from a philosophical provocation.
The ancient Greek thinker Parmenides dismissed those who sought meaning in nothingness as "two-headed" – reasoning doubly and senselessly.
Yet for Icelanders, curator Paulina Brzuskiewicz-Kuhn argues, confronting emptiness is less a philosophical choice than a lived reality.
Much of the country is covered in volcanic tuff and ice, darkness dominates for months, and weather conditions are extreme.
"At a time when algorithms compete for every second of our attention, Icelandic art suggests resistance," she said.
"It doesn't call out for our attention, it proposes a slowing down, a return to something human, analogue and elusive."
Among the highlights is work by 97-year-old Magnús Pálsson, widely regarded as the godfather of Icelandic conceptualism, whose teaching shaped generations of the country's artists, including several featured in this very show.
His piece Love in the Pool captures the space between the faces of two swimmers, linking to Iceland's swimming pool culture, which UNESCO has listed as intangible cultural heritage.
The exhibition runs until May 3.
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Source: PAP, rzezba-oronsko.pl