Pracownia Wschodnia is an independent artist collective. We run an artist-run space unique on Warsaw's art map, built on the grassroots initiative of artists working across the visual arts.
Our foundation is two strands of activity. The first is cultural animation: organising events for a wide audience, running a gallery and art courses, publishing. The second is building a workshop base that lets local artists develop their own creative practice.
Pracownia Wschodnia is a non-profit organisation. It would not exist without the commitment and ground-up work of the people who make up the collective. Each of us has our own practice, some of us teach at various universities or work for a range of institutions, but we believe that by joining forces we can achieve more together, both for local culture and in the field of art.
Ada Kurzawa
Biography
Ada Kurzawa – born in 1999; a multidisciplinary artist and researcher.
She graduated from the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Faculty of Theatre Studies, specialising in Performance Studies (2024). She is currently studying Visual and Media Anthropology in Berlin.
Her artistic and research practice sits at the intersection of analogue photography, film, poetry, performance and visual anthropology, with a particular interest in ritual, mysticism, feminism and ecology. She treats photography as a practice of encounter (relational and process-based), serving to build connections and to explore experience through being together and through time.
Since 2025 she has been part of the Fotopracownia Wschodnia collective, within which she works on photographic practice, education and the co-organisation of exhibitions and events.