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.
Jędrek Owsiński
Biography
He works in visual art and environmental biology. He practises painting and drawing. He most often makes graphic works in connection with his involvement in grassroots social and ecological movements. He also creates visuals linked to music. As a biologist he specialised in behavioural ecology. He works at a school and organises trips to the forest aimed at a many-sided experience of our relationships with the environment. In education he looks for links with the happening. In his painting he takes up the subject of the relationship between creativity and nature, and the nature of human creativity. He draws inspiration, among other things, from folk traditions. He has shown his works and visuals at, among others, Galeria Promocyjna, the Podlasie Philharmonic, Teatr Nowy, the POLIN Museum, the Dom Chemika in Puławy, and many places that are not well-known art institutions.