Artists' House (Dom Artysty Plastyka)

What to expect

Dom Artysty Plastyka (the Artists’ House) at ul. Mazowiecka 11A is the head office of the Warsaw District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (Okręg Warszawski Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków, OW ZPAP): an artists’ union house in the city centre that you visit for its current exhibitions. According to the PIK Warszawa listings site, exhibitions have been held at this address for more than half a century.

The exhibitions are shown in four galleries, DAP1, DAP2, DAP3 and Lufcik, all open at the same hours. The same house is home to Galeria ART, the commercial gallery of OW ZPAP, and, on the third floor, the Office and Exhibitions Bureau (Sekretariat i Biuro Wystaw). A lift goes up to the floors.

On Google Maps the house is rated 4.8 from 110 reviews. The ten most recent, written between two weeks and nine months before 7 November 2026, are nine five-star ratings and one four-star. Visitors praise changing, interesting exhibitions, but only in general terms: the reviews won’t tell you what is on the walls right now.

Who it is for: people who like dropping into galleries with changing exhibitions, and those thinking of buying a work, since the union’s commercial gallery operates in the same house. It also fits a walk around Śródmieście combined with the galleries listed at the end of this page.

How long: an estimated 30-60 minutes for the four galleries, depending on how many exhibitions are on at the time and how many floors you go round.

Who should skip it: anyone who wants to know exactly what they will see before setting out: the reviews speak only in general terms about changing exhibitions. Visitors for whom a threshold is an obstacle should call ahead, as there is a small historic step in the gateway.

Tips

• Gallery hours. The DAP1, DAP2, DAP3 and Lufcik galleries keep the same hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, closed Mon. The OW ZPAP contact page and Google Maps say the same.
• Don’t go by the website footer. The footer of the OW ZPAP home page gives a different opening time for the galleries. In an email of 12 November 2026, the house confirmed the hours shown in the practical box.
• The office keeps shorter hours than the galleries. Exhibition matters are handled by the Office and Exhibitions Bureau on the third floor, on +48 22 827 76 88. The office works shorter hours than the galleries, so call before you come.
• Galeria ART for buyers. If you are interested in buying a work, ask at Galeria ART, the commercial gallery of OW ZPAP: +48 789 11 49 69 or galeria.art@owzpap.pl.
• A step in the gateway, a lift to the floors. The house says there is a small historic step in the gateway and a lift up to the floors. If you use a wheelchair, call ahead on +48 22 827 64 13 and ask for help with the threshold.
• Toilet on site. According to the Google Maps place card, the house has a toilet, so a longer round of the galleries doesn’t call for a break elsewhere.

Getting there

Dom Artysty Plastyka stands at ul. Mazowiecka 11A in Śródmieście, the very centre of Warsaw. The route below comes from Google Maps.

Tram: from Warszawa Centralna (Dworzec Centralny), tram 16 (towards Zjazd do zajezdni Żoliborz) from the Centrum 08 stop to the Metro Świętokrzyska 06 stop, about 2 minutes, with no change.

On foot: from the Metro Świętokrzyska 06 stop it is about 550 m to the house, roughly 7 minutes. The whole journey from the station takes about 19 minutes.

In the neighbourhood

• Dom Bez Kantów Gallery - ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 11, Warszawa, about 450 m. Two permanent exhibitions: “Decyzja: ratować ludzi” (Decision: Save People), about Polish diplomats who rescued Jews, and “Zawołani po imieniu” (Called by Name), about Poles murdered for helping Jews, in a building with rounded corners designed by Czesław Przybylski.
• Kordegarda, Gallery of the National Centre for Culture - ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 15, Warszawa, about 540 m. The NCK gallery in the guardhouse of the Potocki Palace, with exhibitions of Polish art and on Polish history; visitors describe it as small and intimate, so it pairs well with a short round of the galleries on Mazowiecka.
• Eryk Lipiński Museum of Caricature - ul. Kozia 11, 00-070 Warszawa, about 810 m. A museum founded in 1978 by the cartoonist Eryk Lipiński, since 1983 in the former orangery of the Primate’s Palace, with a collection of more than 25,000 drawings shown in temporary exhibitions, so it adds satire and drawing to a walk around the galleries.