Residency: August 3–26, 2026
International Studio & Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, 11211

Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 4:00 PM
Public program featuring two Polish ISCP resident artists: Justyna Górowska and Grzegorz Stefański followed by Q&A
Performance by Justyna Górowska dedicated to her newly published monograph WetMeWild will be followed by presentation of works by Grzegorz Stefański, ISCP resident (July 1–August 31, 2026). More information TBA.

Justyna Górowska is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges 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—she creates immersive and interactive environments that combine naturo-cultural objects, digital performance, and AR applications such as Nymph Tears. In its latest iteration, audiences encounter her AI-driven avatar within an underwater virtual environment—a fluid ecosystem where myth dissolves into data, and the boundaries between intimacy, ecology, ritual, and code become porous. Her Popiel Studio, founded as an outcome of her PhD at the University of the Arts in Poznań (2020), revives forgotten Slavic traditions through contemporary design. Using 3D scans of archaeological artifacts, Popiel reimagines ancestral vessels and ornaments as 3D-printed sculptures and jewellery. 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 curate 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. By weaving together speculative mythology, environmental ethics, and new media, she constructs spaces that question extractivist paradigms and propose an ecology of care.

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.

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. About ISCP

The International Studio & Curatorial Program was founded in 1994 by Dennis Elliott. Known first as the International Studio Program, the organization was formed in order to establish an international community of artists in New York City, and to help develop their professional careers. Working in partnership with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, ISP was located in lower Manhattan and moved to midtown Manhattan in 1998. The following year, the program was expanded to include curatorial residencies as well, so the institution was renamed the International Studio & Curatorial Program. In 2006, ISCP became a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. ISCP relocated from midtown Manhattan to an 18,000 square-foot factory building in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2008, where it thrives in close proximity to the burgeoning art community of Bushwick. This move expanded ISCP’s facility and activities to include 35 private studios, exhibition and projects spaces.

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.

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