Residency: August 1–31, 2026
International Studio & Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, 11211

Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
International Studio & Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, 11211
Public program featuring two Polish ISCP resident artists: Justyna Górowska and Grzegorz Stefański followed by Q&A organized by the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)

For this Artists at Work talk, ISCP artists-in-residence Justyna Górowska and Grzegorz Stefanski will give presentations on their artistic practices and engage each other and the audience in a conversation about their respective and shared thematic interests.

Górowska will discuss her recently published artist monograph WetMeWild and the evolution of her multidisciplinary, performative practice centered on the figure of WetMeWild—a digital water nymph inspired by Slavic mythology and stories of rivers and lakes. She will also speak about her interest in speculative world-building as a research methodology to explore the water crisis and our ethical relationships with aquatic ecosystems.

Stefanski will present his recent projects that examine themes including love, psychological healing, and the social construction of masculinity. He will also discuss how his work considers the possibilities for intimacy and identity in post-patriarchal contexts.

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Justyna Górowska ISCP Resident August 1–31, 2026

Justyna Górowska is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice brings together performance, digital technology, and ecological activism. Working across art, science, and feminist theory, she explores how human and more-than-human bodies are entangled within the planetary water cycle. Through her performative persona WetMeWild—a hydrosexual Slavic water nymph— Górowska creates immersive and interactive environments that combine natural materials,cultural objects, digital performance, and augmented reality applications such as Nymph Tears. In its latest iteration, WetMeWild takes the form of an AI-driven avatar inhabiting a virtual underwater environment—a fluid ecosystem where where mythology and technology converge to explore relationships between intimacy, ecology, ritual, and code. Bringing together speculative mythology, environmental ethics, and new media, Górowska challenges extractive paradigms relating to the natural world and propose alternative models grounded in ecological care and interdependence.

Popiel Studio, founded by Górowska in 2020 as an outcome of her doctoral research at the University of the Arts in Poznań uncovers and reinterprets overlooked Slavic traditions through contemporary design. Using 3D scans of archaeological artifacts, Popiel reimagines ancestral vessels and ornaments as 3D-printed sculptures and jewelry. Since 2021, she has co-led cyber_nymphs, a duo that initiated the hydrosexual movement in art, a practice of

fluid intimacy with ecosystems and technological systems. Together they create the Blue Humanities Archive, a living collection of digital works related to water, which she has transferred into DNA as part of her ongoing research into sustainable data storage and posthuman memory. Her work has been presented internationally at Art in General (New York), FUTURA (Prague), the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), the National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarta), Le Lieu Gallery (Quebec City), and Bunkier Sztuki (Kraków), among others. She is represented by lokal_30 gallery in Warsaw and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and SWPS University.

Justyna Górowska’s residency at ISCP is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Publication WetMeWild is funded by the SWPS University Research Development Fund.

Justyna Górowska Photo Captions

Corposhiva, 2017 Digital photograph. Project realized in collaboration with Tadeusz Rolke.

Hydrosex Unite! 2024 Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Multimedia installation comprising photographic prints and a video installation with scallop shell elements 3D printed in PLA filament. Photo: Daniel Rumiancew.

Hydrosexual Healing Clinic, 2025 Nowa Huta Lagoon, Kraków. Participatory public-space performance realized in collaboration with Dom Utopii as part of the cyber_nymphs duo. Photo: Paweł Wyląg.

An AI Water Nymph’s Underwater Journey, 2025 Pawilon / Art & Science Lab, Poznań. Interactive virtual environment. Photo: Jan Koszewnik.

Controller Sculpture, 2025 Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław. Game controller sculpture produced using 3D printing with scallop shell elements in PLA filament. Photo: Justyna Górowska.

BhA – Digital Art Archive in DNA, 2026

Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk – Studiotopia program. Multimedia installation using DNA-encoded digital data. Project documentation. Photo: Robert Wolak.

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Grzegorz Stefański ISCP Resident July 1–August 31, 2026

Grzegorz Stefański is a London-based Polish interdisciplinary artist-filmmaker an writer working across multi- and single-screen cinematic installations and photography. His practice explores relational dynamics of love and power, mental health, memory, repetition, and the social construction of post-patriarchal masculinity. Influenced by phenomenology, performance, and European and Asian cinema, his work sits at the intersection of choreography, psychology, and film, with a focus on gesture, embodiment, and identity.

Grzegorz Stefański has exhibited work at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Japan; and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland, among others.

Grzegorz Stefański’s residency at ISCP is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

Grzegorz Stefański Photo Captions

Grzegorz Stefański, no sticks & stones can ever break our bones, 2023, [film still], installation, 4K film with sound, screen dimensions variable, 4’58”, black and white, aspect ratio 4:3, looped, pendant light of temperature 2600K, audio speakers on pedestals, carpet

Grzegorz Stefański, spill, 2018, [installation view], three-channel video installation, Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art. Photo: Bartosz Górka.

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WetMeWild
WetMeWild is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Justyna Górowska’s artistic practice between 2017 and 2025. The publication surveys her performances, installations, and interdisciplinary research developed through the performative persona WetMeWild, exploring environmental crisis through hydrofeminism, ecosexuality, Slavic mythology, and ecological humanities. Essays, interviews, and visual documentation trace the evolution of her work across Poland and internationally, examining water as a political, ecological, and cultural commons. The publication also reflects her collaborations within the cyber_nymphs collective and the Blue Humanities Archive, positioning artistic practice as a space for imagining new relationships between humans, technology, and more-than-human worlds.

International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Founded in 1994, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is the fourth-largest visual arts residency program in the world and a global leader in the field of visual arts residency programs. ISCP supports the creative development of artists and curators and promotes exchange through residencies and public programs. Housed in a former factory in Brooklyn, with 35 light-filled work studios and two galleries, ISCP organizes exhibitions, events, and offsite projects, which are free and open to all, sustaining a vibrant community of contemporary art practitioners and diverse audiences. Over 2,000 artists and curators from more than 105 countries, including the United States, have undertaken residencies at ISCP. To learn more, visit iscp-nyc.org.

Public program “Artists at Work” is an initiative of ISCP and it is supported by The Adam Mickiewicz Institute; Polish Cultural Institute New York; SWPS University; International Visegrad Fund; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

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Justyna Górowska’s residency at ISCP is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.