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.
Andrea Beggio
Biography
By training I am a mechanical engineer, and since childhood a lover of photography. I took my first photography course as a teenager at the Atelier della Fotografia in Italy. Since moving to Warsaw in 2013 I have been learning under the wing of Federico Caponi, studying, among other things, the techniques of developing and printing photographs. I then became a member of the Pracownia Wschodnia Association.