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.
Paulina Mirowska
Biography
A visual artist and burnt-out activist, born in 1987 in Warsaw.
A graduate of the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of the Arts in Poznań, in Photography and in Graphic Design and Visual Communication. She runs the 2nd Photography Studio together with Dr Mariusz Filipowicz and, on her own, the Fundamentals of Photography Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
She works with grassroots forms of self-organisation and resistance. For years she has taken an active part in independent group and individual activities, combining analogue photography, sculpture, printmaking and self-publishing. She has co-authored many installations and community events. At the Pracownia Wschodnia gallery she is an exhibition curator, technician and organiser of intimate concerts with visuals by invited artists. Together with Łukasz Zembaty and Michał Żabko-Potopowicz she runs the PHU Sitex collective, which carries out unusual screen printing commissions for many galleries and museums.