Content Collapse

Aug 10, 2026

Filip Kostic is an artist based in Los Angeles.

Filip Kostic’s artist lecture, Content Collapse, performed at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art on February 13, 2026 as part of the closing events for the exhibition IF/THEN co-curated by Sara Szostak and Marta Grytczuk.

In this artistic narrative, the artist moves between his work and reflections on digital culture—a space where images & memes, fictional characters, and political narratives coexist within a single, hyper-connected world. Part lecture, part performance, Content Collapse asks: what happens to our sense of meaning and perception when everything appears all at once?

Install image of Kostic’s work in IF/THEN at Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Arts. Image courtesy of the artist and the museum.

For the exhibition, Filip exhibited a new series of works that contend with some of the ideas presented in this lecture. The work consists of eighteen diptych drawings titled Counter-Strike Spray Pattern Drawing #1-18, seven sculptures titled Pro Mouse Grip #1-7, and a sound work called Counter-Strike 1.6 being played in the other room, all made in 2025.

The hand sculptures are life castings done in collaboration with Sarah Sitkin in Los Angeles. The life casts are taken of Filip’s mouse hand while he holds a computer mouse in the positions of various professional competitive Counter-Strike players. The mouse is then removed and a cold-cast composed of Silicon rock powder, Copper powder, and resin composite is poured.

Pro Mouse Grip #2, 2025. 25x25x15cm on 33x33cm mousepad pedestal. Silicon-Copper Cold Cast. Image courtesy of the artist and the museum.

Pro Mouse Grip #1, 2025. 25x25x15cm on 33x33cm mousepad pedestal. Silicon-Copper Cold Cast. Image courtesy of the artist and the museum.

Pro Mouse Grip #1 (Left), Pro Mouse Grip #3 (Right), 2025. 25x25x15cm on 33x33cm mousepad pedestal. Silicon-Copper Cold Cast. Images courtesy of the artist and the museum.

Counter-Strike Spray Pattern Drawing 1-18 are drawings of the bullet-spray pattern for every automatic weapon in Counter-Strike. The game has a mechanic in which the gun will recoil upwards as you hold the left mouse button down. It does this motion in a pattern that is gun specific and can be countered by a reciprocated mirrored motion of the mouse. Each diptych is the dot pattern made by the bullets, and the path of the mouse movement necessary to negate the movement. The drawings are mounted on a mousepad backing.