Foto Pracownia Wschodnia is a place born out of a passion for photography as an artistic craft, founded on the initiative of independent artists and active in art, education and exhibitions.

We run a black-and-white darkroom equipped with enlargers from 35mm to large format, capable of producing large-scale prints on baryta paper. We offer individual and group workshops for professionals and amateurs (from the basics to advanced techniques such as split-grade printing and archival processing). Our studio, with access to daylight and equipped with high-quality flash lighting and modifiers, is also a space for photographers who want to present their work in the form of exhibitions.

   

MysteriosA

16 June to 8 August 2026
Foto Pracownia Wschodnia
MysteriosA
Ada Kurzawa
Mysteriosa is a tribute to Mystery, a personal attempt to express an all-embracing fascination and love for that which cannot be grasped by reason – the primordial force that unites destruction and creation. The one that persists in dance and in stillness, at the same time.
 
The exhibition presents works including analogue photography, sound, installation and 8 mm video.
 
The project was created as a diploma work within the course at the Akademia Fotografii and was funded by Fundacja Kolegium Sztuk Wizualnych.
 
Supervisor: Federico Caponi
Visual identity: Melaniia Konstantinova
 
 
Exhibition dates: 26 June – 17 July
Opening on 26 June, 19:00–22:00
 
 
19:00 – P.A.Dobrowolski / Holic
Ambient Live Act
20:30 – opening ceremony,
performance by the artist
21:00 – afterparty: ArtHouseFlow DJ set
 
 
As part of the “MysteriosA” exhibition, a dance performance and a participatory origami happening took place.
 
8 August, 19:00–22:00
 
19:00–20:20 last guided tour
20:20–20:33 dance performance
20:33–22:00 happening
“delicious as the rose and stately as the lily”
 
In the final gesture of the performance, the artist will take down from the wall the first of the 78 A3 sheets that make up the mural based on the risograph "ROZKOSZ/sama ze sobą (w blasku Słońca)” [DELIGHT/alone with herself (in the glow of the Sun)], and then invite the participants to fold them together into lotuses using the origami technique.
 
“SHE:Lazarus” is a celebration of survival, a symbolic journey through rebirth, inspired by butoh, the Japanese dance of darkness, and by somatic practices that use trembling and shaking of the body. Through the expression of pain and pleasure, it explores the experience of femininity.
 
 
Ada Kurzawa “SHE:Lazarus”
music: Szymon Weiss
somatic guide: Malaniia Konstantinova
jewellery/stylist: Sofi (estradaoplomo)
 
 
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exhibition documentation: photo Kasia Rysiak
performance documentation: photo Kasia Rysiak
Exhibition documentation

 

Documentation of the SHE:Lazarus performance

 

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