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Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia is an exhibition space and an open venue for artistic and cultural initiatives. We organise thematic exhibitions combined with workshops or lectures by invited guests, performance shows, micro-plays, author meetings and concerts. Around these events we work both with artists and with people not directly connected with the world of culture, such as scientists and travellers.

Gallery opening hours

Wednesday–Friday 4–8 pm
Saturday–Sunday 12–6 pm

QUIET VIDEO BOOTH

8 October to 11 October 2026
Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia
QUIET VIDEO BOOTH
Antek Lisowski
Gabriela Kiczor-Bentkowska
Mikołaj Chylak
Janek Cieślak
Julia Bui
Aga Kuryło
Paulina Mirowska
Cyprian Szablak
Piotr Kopik
Tymek Bryndal
Natan Kryszk
Maks Rzontkowski

Quiet Video Booth is a project presented during the SWAB art fair in Barcelona, offering a non-commercial space dedicated to monochrome, soundless video works. A small, darkened room allows for a moment of retreat from the surrounding bustle and the saturation of visual and verbal stimuli typical of an art fair environment. The installation brought together works by artists associated with Pracownia Wschodnia and invited guests, while remaining open to collaboration with other collectives and arts organisations.

Conceptually, the Quiet Video Booth project explored the power and resonance of the silenced image. Employing reduction as an artistic strategy, it proposed a form of minimalism that could exist within the dense and highly stimulating context of an art fair.

 

Project co-financed by the NetWorks programme, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Project support: Polish Institute in Madrid.

 

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Previous exhibitions

Stanisław Babik
Sławek Blaszewski
Agnieszka Brzeżańska
Rafał Dominik
Barbara Gryka
Magdalena Kazimierska
Karolina Konopka
Gustaw Maj
Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska
Weronika Ostrowska
Anna Płonka
Julek Płoski
Łukasz Radziszewski
Agata Rucińska
Aleksandra Szczodry
Joanna Ślesicka
Oliwia Thomas
Sylwia Wirska
Julian Wnuk
Julia Woronowicz
Stefan Załęski
Janek Zamoyski
from 19 September
to 25 October 2026

The exhibition „Ochrona zdrowia w świecie sztuki” [Healthcare in the Art World] presents works by people united by the status of confirmed health insurance in the National Health Fund thanks to contributions paid from casual employment based on civil contracts. This exhibition aims to set a direction for changes in funding healthcare from the state budget, so that everyone, not only artists, has equal access to it.

​Piotr Kopik
Paulina Mirowska
Antek Lisowski
Łukasz Zembaty
Natan Kryszk
Janek Cieślak
Jędrzej Owsiński
Mikołaj Chylak
from 27 August
to 20 September 2026

"Im thinking of You" is an exhibition project based on a mutual artistic exchange between Poland and Finland

Blanka Byrwa
Natalia Gwiazdowska
Marta Koniarska
Stefan Kornacki
Ivo Nikić
Michał Pawłowski
Agata Przyżycka
Youness Sefyaoui
from 28 June
to 29 July 2026

In a world shaped by visual culture, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish representation from reality. Especially when we think of places that function in the collective consciousness as projections of dreams and longings. Morocco has existed in the European imagination for decades as a land of sun and freedom. At the same time, Europe remains a symbol of prosperity and opportunity for many residents of North Africa. On both sides of the Mediterranean, images circulate of places that often say more about our desires than about reality itself.

Mykola Bilyk
Mikołaj Chylak
Adam Durjasz
Olha Hurenko
Mateusz Możejko
Iwona Mysera
Paweł Mysera
Hubert Ostrowski
Jędrzej Owsiński
Ada Adu Rączka
Patryk Różycki
from 16 May
to 14 June 2026

The exhibition “Jak zrobić stół?” [How to Make a Table?] at Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia addressed the theme of meeting another human being, understood as a process of building bonds, community, and mutual recognition and understanding.

Weronika Althamer
Jan Jaworski-Brach
Krysztof Franaszek
Józef Gałązka
Ellen Martine Heuser
Agata Jarosławiec
Teresa Kądziela
Natan Kryszk
Zofia Kwasieborska
Maria Lisicka
Olga Madler
Paulina Mirowska
Nina M.W. Queissner
Afrodyta Rękawik
Basia Ślusarczyk
Julia Woronowicz
from 17 April
to 10 May 2026
Obracanie [Turning]
On three, on four, on five, on six, on seven, on one.
Oneself, in dance, of topics, in one's head.
Into dust, into powder, into sand, into non-existence.
Towards.
Planets, thoughts, someone, with someone, history.
To something.
To use up.
To make a journey there and back.
Around.
 
Curator – Natan Kryszk
Collaboration – Mikołaj Chylak
Poster – Zuzia Liszka
Antek Lisowski
Janek Cieślak
from 21 March
to 12 April 2026
This exhibition started with a message sent late at night.
Someone described a painting.
A rectangle.
A mountain running through the middle.
Don Quixote at the bottom.
Higher up, Sisyphus with his boulder.
Even higher, Icarus near the sun.
At the summit, Job and Abraham.
Sounded like a plan...
 
Curator: Małgorzata Popek
 
Opening: 21 March 2026 19:00
Exhibition open until 12 April 2026
 
Event co-financed by m.st. Warszawa
Ola Kot
Mateusz Dąbrowski
Michał Chojecki
from 24 January
to 22 February 2026

Works embedded in fragile and unstable matter. The installations reflect their contemplation on their own limitations regarding social and individual expectations and the challenges we face every day. The artists ask about the boundaries of freedom, the boundaries of subjectivity, and the roles of the individual in the face of elusive changes.

elm_735
Paulina Mirowska
from 17 December
to 11 January 2026

The window exhibition referenced the annual artistic and research programme TEREN [TERRAIN], which focused on redefining the concept of terrain/space in a social, artistic, and symbolic context.

Presented in the windows of Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia, the works by artist elm_735 and artist Paulina Mirowska served as the closing and culmination of the year-long activities.

Agnieszka Grodzińska
Piotr Kopik
Piotrek Kowalski
Natan Kryszk
Jakub Michalak
Zofia Mierzejewska
Weronika Wysocka
from 7 November
to 7 December 2025

"PODŁOGA" [Floor] proposed thinking about the base of every space as a medium, a carrier of meanings, a map of practices and rituals, a plane of diverse movement. The artists reinterpreted the floor as a point of contact with everyday life, weight and history, with that upon which we settle ourselves. In dialogue with the architecture of the display, the creators turned their gaze towards what silently accompanies our experience of the world. Their works examined the form and memory of space, revealing what is covered, stored, what has settled in layers and crevices.

Antoni Lisowski
Jan Cieślak
Tobiasz Kenio
Wacław Bodnar
Natalia Borczi
Jan Mioduszewski
Mikołaj Starowieyski
Piotr Mlącki
Ira Artsiukevich
Joanna Sarnecka
Ryszard "Rysia" Czubak
Gustaw Maj
Yukari Nakamichi
Wojciech Gilewicz
Kamila Śladowska
Magdalena Tryba
Tymek Bryndal
Jędrek Owsiński
Kasia Rysiak
Tomek Motyka
Michał Żabko-Potopowicz
Paweł Dobrowolski
Malwina Nahorny
from 20 September
to 26 October 2025

The exhibition was a formal experiment aimed at a comprehensive description of the phenomenon of hoarding (known as zbieractwo). This phenomenon, embedded in contemporary consumer culture, has been analysed for decades by philosophers and artists, ranging from Duchamp's ready-made phenomena to the contemporary installations of Robert Kuśmirowski. The exhibition aimed to capture the complex specificity of the hoarding phenomenon in relation to contemporary culture, philosophy, art, and the depths of the human psyche and human trauma.