The place has a twofold meaning. It refers to the hometown of the sculptor, Mirosław Bałka, and the house of his childhood which he has turned it into a studio. The studio triggered a reflection on the relations between art and space in which it is made. The town has become an expanded space of work.

“Otwock” is an exercise in creating a subjective description of the place. Invited artists, curators and writers work with the found context. Their contributions are suspended between history presence and future, between personal and official narratives, between changing functions of space.

The adopted method is best described by the notions of site-specific and site responsive. The works, the elusive artistic gestures, the texts or events uncover new layers of meanings and form a loose grid of associations and connections. By mutually complementing each other, they pose questions and make proposals leading to changing interpretations and new ways of considering the local. "Otwock" is an attempt to spend time with art in the place, approached with commitment and imagination.

The project is curated by Kasia Redzisz.

Between 2010 and 2016 the project was produced by Open Art Projects and coordinated by Magda Materna.

Since 2017 the project is realized by Miroslaw Balka Studio.