Marcin Kasiewicz

Marcin Kasiewicz spent years sketching Warsaw’s back alleys on lunch breaks, always with a crusty bread roll in his pocket for the stray cat that followed him. He painted the city’s overlooked corners with a dry, almost comic eye—like the time he turned a student brawl into a ballet of flying hats and ink pots. His 1883 Students’ pranks shows exactly that: a frozen second of chaos where a teetering pile of books is the real hero. Look up that painting; it’s the door into a Warsaw you won’t find in guidebooks.