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.

Łukasz Zembaty

Biography

Born in 1981 in Warsaw. A graphic artist and printer. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the European Academy of Arts. A co-founder of Pracownia Wschodnia, in whose space the SITO screen printing studio came into being as one of the first printing collectives in Poland. Printer of the PHU Sitex collective, which specialises in unusual screen printing commissions for, among others, the National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre for Contemporary Art, the galleries Czułość, Leto, BWA Warszawa and Lokal 30, and for numerous artists and designers. Since 2013 he has looked after the screen printing studio as senior technical officer at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

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