Wzajemnie Studio is the studio of Barbara Przenniak, an intermedia artist and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. The studio is mobile – for now it is in Sopot. Barbara hand-builds sculptural objects with organic forms and tableware from clay. At Locus Artis in Gdańsk you will find her “hybrid”, an object that resembles a heart.
Ceramics came into her life at university, in 2022, in sculpture classes. Then came an Erasmus exchange in Portugal, where she spent every free moment in the ceramics studio, and after that exhibitions and new projects – in Gdańsk and Warsaw, up to her diploma show at Hevelianum in June 2025. Since then clay has been a constant part of her artistic practice.
At Wzajemnie Studio she brings art and craft together, looking for a balance between the artistic object and the useful one. “When I work with material, above all I listen,” she says. Clay, which to some seems a hard, raw material and to others plain mud, is for her the most understandable language.
She is closest to raw textures and organic forms – shapes that look like artefacts or like something taken from the natural world. Her newest series, Childhood Seeds, is about what sprouts and blooms.
What she brought to Locus Artis.
Among other things, Barbara brought to Locus Artis an object that resembles a heart while being made of elements that look like fragments of a coral reef – she calls it her hybrid. Her sculptural vase is on the shelf too.
It takes three to four weeks from shaping to a finished object, and what reaches the shop is the result of years of trial and error. Wzajemnie Studio objects are made in short series or as one-offs; Barbara also takes individual commissions and runs workshops.