Saturday 16 May 2026, 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm, Photo London, Talks Room, Olympia

Collecting Cultures: Central and Eastern Europe

Join Katarzyna Sagatowska, Łukasz Gorczyca, and Tomas Opitz for an unmissable dive into the vibrant world of collecting Eastern European photography, spanning historic masterpieces and cutting-edge contemporary works.

Katarzyna Sagatowska Polish curator, lecturer, author and producer of artistic events and films, as well as promoter of collecting photography. Founder and owner of JEDNOSTKA – gallery and publishing house. Lecturer at the Film School in Lodz, Poland. She graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic (PhD) and management and marketing, Warsaw Technical University, Poland (MS). She was in charge of the Collector’s Photography (FOTOGRAFIA KOLEKCJONERSKA) project – working as a curator and organizer of exhibitions and auctions of Polish photography masters (2010–2017). Co-author of the We Are All Photographers (WSZYSCY JESTEŚMY FOTOGRAFAMI) series. Co-curator of Paweł Pierściński’s archive.

Łukasz Gorczyca is an art historian and critic, lecturer and exhibition curator, gallery owner, and photography collector. He is the co-founder of Raster Gallery (2001) and Fotoklub (2021) — a private micro-institution dedicated to historical and contemporary photography.

Tomas Opitz graduated in Architecture in Caracas from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, at the same time his passion for photography has been getting stronger and stronger. Bea Puskás originally graduated in Geology, but her affinity and interest in Art motivated her to get even closer after finishing a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design MOME in Budapest – Hungary. These antecedents have led them to launch a small gallery TOBE in October 2013 with the aim of presenting Ibero-American and Hungarian artists in whom the ambition for high-quality artistic expression is part of the idea of ​​experimentation in their works.

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Image: Zygmunt Rytka, Coming Soon, 1985, In Situ Foundation, Courtesy of Monolpol Gallery