ART LAB Wyspa/Fundacja Wyspa Progress

ARTLab Wyspa

2018-

ART LAB Wyspa, located on Sobieszewska Island in Gdańsk, consists of an office, library, archive, the Wyspa Progress Foundation collection, and a residency studio, where we run our Artist-in-Residence programme. Our place is partly an experimental ARTLAB, which on the one hand seeks connections between art and science, and on the other, more importantly, an ecological attitude towards nature and the ecosystem.

We want to achieve these goals by applying a critical and research-based approach that redefines the dichotomy of NATURE> <CULTURE and artistic techniques from the field of so-called ‘wet media’, biomedia and modified artistic tools. To this end, we invite people involved in transdisciplinary solutions to share their knowledge and experience. We run a residency programme for artists and scientists who coordinate workshops for various social groups, which take place in the studio, in the garden and in selected locations on Sobieszewska Island. 

We collaborate with biologists, biotechnologists, and environmental engineers to implement projects, using any techniques, that involve selected safe tissue and cell cultures, plants, and animals. The work is based on wet biological media, where living objects are most often presented rather than represented in the form of art critically related to biotechnological practices subjected to artistic reflection