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.
Piotr Kopik
Biography
A multimedia artist – maker of installations, videos, machinima, animations, VR works, computer graphics and actions; he also works in collage and drawing.
A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (degree in the studio of Professor Jarosław Modzelewski in 2003). Co-founder of the group szu szu (2001). He has taken part in exhibitions at, among others, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, BWA Wrocław, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, IS Wyspa in Gdańsk, Kunsthaus Dresden, the Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism in Bat Yam, rotor in Graz, the Lokal_30 gallery in Warsaw, the Entropia gallery in Wrocław, the Różnia gallery in Warsaw and the Harbor Gallery in Boston. His films have been shown at, among others, FILE in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the Planete+ Doc Film Festival, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Muranów cinema and on TVP Kultura. Artist in Residence programme scholarship holder (Progr, Bern, 2006). Laureate of the Młoda Polska scholarship programme (2013).
He co-creates the Pracownia Wschodnia gallery and FRINGE Warszawa. He lectures at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He defended his doctorate in 2011 and his habilitation in 2019. He runs the 3D and Virtual Events Studio I. He lives and works in Warsaw.