Paulina Sycha

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Paulina Sycha is working as a graphic designer, maker and cultural organiser. Her work consists of a patchwork of practices that involve workshops, writing, spatial interventions, teaching/sharing and working with textiles. With a background in book making and printed matter these practices are informed by this perspective. Formally trained as a communication designer and with a master's degree in Interior Architecture: Research & Design [➞] from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, lines between disciplines are shifting constantly.

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Interested in open spaces for exchange, collective practice, hosting, and the places of shared knowledge that emerge between them, Paulina is currently based in Vienna, where she engages with these topics alongside occasional teaching work, primarily in the context of the cultural association Kollektiv Kaorle [➞] and as a market vendor at the weekly market.

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Always interested in collaboration and open for graphic design comissions and inquiries.
A full CV and portfolio are availabe upon e-mail [➞] request.

news, experiments, thoughts, links, captured bits, recent actions and process documentation:

19 February, 2026
(captured) from the book "vor ort Langenhagen 1994, Kunst in städtischen Situationen, Liebscher Lehanka, Michael Ross Yoko Ono" found in the exhibition "Von Büchern und Bibliotheken" [➞] at Villa Stuck in Munich. you can find a post about the exhibition on my instagram [➞]
February 2026
(event) We are officially opening the new location to the public. Wednesday, 11.02.2026 from 16:00 at Kollektiv Kaorle [➞] on moving/walking books, libraries and their curation-criteria
January 2026
(thought) some thoughts and diagrams or drawings [➞] on moving/walking books, libraries and their curation-criteria
December 2025
(experiment) a dialogue with Agnes [➞] about physically carrying books—their weight and size, moving them between places and the weight of a book as a factor in compiling a collection/reader. This collection is exactly 1000 g. (1) To whom it may affect, – artist book by Kimberley Cosmilla, 60 g (2) Fern von hier by Abelheid Duvanel, collection of short stories, 548 g (3) ladies only stories for all, artist book with photographies by the women of Dharavi, 79 g (4) Transparenzgesellschaft by Byung-Chan Han, 87 g (5) Semiotics of the End by Allessandro Sbordoni, 80g (6) Phrases searched at http://www.janvaneyck.nl 2.10.03–27.12.03, 146g
(captured) 11 October, 2025
note by a wanderer, walkshop in Völklingen
11 October, 2025
(event) Angry Textiles [➞] Exhibition at Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site, with Tilla Giro.
As part of our Research and Conversational Work "Backstitch", we will be hosting a walkable city inspection of Völklingen: Gleaning Walk, Saturday, 11 October, meeting point Völklinger Hütte, Handwerkergasse, 11:00
(news) September 2025
We are building a textile workshop at the new location of the Kollektiv Kaorle [➞] on the Otto Wagner Areal in Vienna.
September 2025
(captured) spray-painted lace curtain in a found in a ground-floor window in Montreuil
31 July, 2025
(captured) poster on Gumpendorferstraße, vienna
July 2025
(experiment) publication as a bag / bag as a publication
1 June, 2025
(captured) DB WC sign
June 2025
(process) zine cover scanning for students exhibition „Künstlerische Gestaltung“ at the University of Innsbruck, studio3 [➞] Opening 05.06.2025, 6:00 p.m. Amraser-See-Straße 56h/i, 6020 Innsbruck
May 2025
(thought) fragmented thoughts, from a letter to Tilla
5 April 2025
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4 April 2025
(news) First workshop-weekend, teaching the Künstlerische Gestaltung course (artistic design) at the Faculty for Architecture, University Innsbruck at studio3 [➞] Focused on experimenting with the spatial implications of (collective) textiles, the course is structured as a hands-on textile workshop.
March 2025
(captured) the shadow of the llaundry room's window lettering on my notebook
All the Best
(action) all the best, xoxo
All the Best
all the best, xoxo – postcard fundraising campaign for Sea-watch e.V. [➞]
(action) In response to current political events, discussions and right-wing agendas against immigration throughout Europe, we are organising ourselves and sending visible, open messages - messages to counteract the feeling of powerlessness with action, to become active together and to take a clear stand against populist agitation, the oversimplification of complex crises and exclusion. You browse throuh the postcard-drawings and support the campagin here.
9 February 2025
(link) De Boog Rotterdam ist hosting a monotype workshop by @sadpiskella on sunday. Used Riso master foils still have leftover ink on them, which can be reused to make monograph prints.
28 December, 2024
(link) Until March 30, 2025, the Lenbachhaus [➞] in Munich is showing the exhibition “Aber hier leben? Nein danke. Surrealismus + Antifaschismus,” which frames Surrealism as an international political movement of antifascist resistance and organization. Part of the exhibition is a large cellection of underground publications and leaflets.
21 November 2024
(process) I met Tilla Giro [➞] , she is one of the three other artist working at Landworks. We began exchanging thoughts, and a collaborative work is growing. We are gathering stories, fragments and unused textiles from the villagers of Argentiera – Due calzini smarriti fanno una coppia
November–December 2024
(news) Nouveau Grand Tour Residency at LANDWORKS, Argentiera, Sardinia[➞]
18 October, 2024
(event) The exhibition ‘Extra Porto’ shows collaboratively created and collected drawings by Jakob and Paulina Sycha.
Opening on 18 October, at Kollektiv Kaorle in Vienna [➞]
October 2024
(process) soon: Extra Porto, exhibition with Jakob Sycha
September 2024
(process) process picture: large scale collaborative drawing on cotton, together with Jakob Sycha
August 2024
(captured) Print Shop Kiosk, Mumbai
October 2024 (upcoming exhibition)
(news) sharing/showing some of our collaborative drawings in show at Kollektiv Kaorle soon, with Jakob Sycha
16 July, 2024
(experiment) A frame Jakob and I built so we can both draw on the same drawing at the same time – each responding to the other’s drawing on the backside.
15 July, 2024
(captured) page from the book "Natural Enemies Of Books – A Messy History Of Women In Printing And Typography"
11 July, 2024
(thought) scribble from a letter to Jakob ("I often like the backs of drawings better")
15+16 June, 2024
(event) 'Markttas' is on the Spring Design Market at Huidenclub in Rotterdam [➞]
June 2024
(news) I wrote a short text on sewing for the e-mail newsletter of Kollektiv Kaorle [➞] The newsletter's topic of the year is "Demokratische Räume".
7 June 2024
(captured) Form inspiration: Textile print sample book from Mulhouse, cotton printers De Hemptine, 1863-64 (MoMu Antwerpen)
25 May, 2024
(event) The 'Markttas' is on the Zaad Market at De Kroon [➞] in Rotterdam. Find me at a stall together with Philippa Lorenzen selling her hand knitted vegetable nets and bags on Saturday 25th of May 14:00 - 20:00, Schiemond 20 - 22
23 March, 2024
(event) The Other Market is travelling to Vienna: Offene Textil Werkstatt at Kollektiv Kaorle [➞]
Workshop, Saturday, 23.03.2024 11:00-14:00
10 May, 2024
(news) Accessoires Auto is on the BYOB Fair [➞] in Amsterdam, find the publication at the stall of the Blob Shop Collective
February 2024
(process) Mini Zine "Moll" with drawings of Jakob Sycha
3 March 2024
(captured) Discovered a truly special place: Balzac à Rodin at 14bis Rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. It’s an incredible archive and antiquarian bookshop filled with stories and fascinating publications, most of them from 20th century Europe. Thank you Lara for bringing me.
08+09+10 December 2023
(link) Urban Wool Workshop at the Independent School for the City[➞]
November 2023
(news) Accessoires Auto, Edition 1, can be purchased at 'Vetgedrukt' now [➞]
29 October 2023
(news) Accessoire Auto is here!! The collection/dpublication documents decorations and curiosities from the world of car enthusiasts since 2019. Auto Accessoire Edition 1, 2023, 89 pages [➞]
7 September 2023
(captured) beans soaking in water
6 August 2023
(process) Working on a fun publication with Juliana Müller. We’ve been collecting pictures of bizarre “Auto Accessoires” together since 2019.
July 2023
(event) The sewing workshop on was a lot of fun. Find the documentation and more context about the work here at: Collective Making (How to Set up a market stall)
8+9 July 2023
(event) Within the framework of the group exhibition 'Anything That Is Alive Cannot Be in the Gallery Space'[➞] at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, I will be giving two collective sewing workshops as part of my graduation project The Other Market [➞] date+time:
Saturday 8 July 2023, 13:00–14:00
Sunday 9 July 2023 13:00-14:30
@ Nieuwe Instituut, Gallery 3
2 July 2023
(captured) Yellow River, Rotterdam
July 2023
(news) e-flux announcements: MIARD Group exhibition "Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space" at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam [➞]
18 April 2023
(captured) "Großes Prozeßbuch-1963-1969 51x40x18,5cm, Auflage: 6 Exemplare, Schwerer Baumwollstoff, Leinen, Nessel, Autoplane (...) Herstellung: Johanna Walther", Franz Erhalt Walther, 1. Werksatz
March 2023
(process) a mini zine on containers that are shaped like vegetables
14 March 2023
(experiment) a vessel shaped like the vegetable it holds
21. February 2023
(experiment) Textile Printing Test: Photograph transferred onto polyester fabric using a heat press
December 2022
(process) The Other Museum, studio with cookies architecture [➞] – An initial test for "The future was today" [➞] Questioning what a spatial publication is and how publishing can be non-static.
April 2022
(experiment) A collective printing workshop we as MIARD students had with Flip from KIOSK Rotterdam [➞] We all brought visual and written pieces from our personal research and started discovering connections by collaging them together.
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