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.
Natalia Łajszczak
Biography
Natalia Łajszczak – a graphic designer and educator with an activist streak. A graduate of Polish Philology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University and of the Faculty of New Media at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She works, among other places, at PJATK, where she runs the screen printing studio and classes in publication prototyping. She is associated with the international typographic association ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), within which she coordinates the organisation and production of the annual ATypI typography conference. In 2023 she was an instructor on a publishing course for people from Ukraine, as part of the activities of UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research).
In her everyday professional practice she designs publications and visual identities and works in animation. She organises and runs screen printing and zine workshops for various cultural institutions.
At Pracownia Wschodnia she is a member of the screen printing studio, where (besides printing) she co-coordinates events and the studio's joint initiatives.