Fino and Art

Anna Królikiewicz graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, and has earned the title of professor in 2018.

Devoted to drawing and artistic installations, she also writes. Author, scientific editor and co-publisher of the monograph “Międzyjęzyk” describing the topic of using food as a medium in contemporary art.

For over 15 years, she has been working with food as a type painting and sculptural material, the language of culture and community.

Author of many individual exhibitions, she has participated in almost two hundred group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and has shown her works in New York, Istanbul, Ankara, Cologne, Brussels, Prague, an abandoned butcher shop in Sopot, the refectory of the Carthusian order, the Oliwa forest, an empty apartment in Krakow's Salwator, the stage of the German theater, and the POLIN I museum in Warsaw's Zachęta.

Winner of several awards and scholarships, awarded the badge of Merit for Polish Culture.

Together with Jacek Koprowski, they created a series of dinners, the entire profit of which were donated to the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Thanks to this artistic cooperation, it was possible to donate over 84 thousand złoty (!) to charity.

Vasyl Savchenko is a Ukrainian artist born in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. He currently lives and works in Gdansk.

He is an interdisciplinary artist, working in art and design of various visual media; he is also a curator of artistic projects. In recent years, he has been researching the influence of modern technologies on art and its methodology, focusing on the development of analog graphics in the post-digital phenomenon.

He is interested in the future of our identity in the context of the human body memory and the dreams of our inner world. He works mainly with hand/machine drawing, using various tools to make his projects.

He has participated in over 130 international exhibitions, art projects, residencies and symposia in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Spain, the USA, China, Japan, Thailand and Egypt.

He received two master's degrees from the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Monumental Painting (Ukraine) and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Faculty of Graphics and Media Art (Poland).

He has been running the Post-Digital Graphics studio at the Faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk since 2018.

Since 2021, co-founder of the Savchenko Foundation, which manages the Savchenko Gallery cultural institution in Gdańsk.

2019 and 2022 - two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Gaude Polonia", with a residence in Gdańsk.

2017 - author of the set design for the opera "Krakowiacy i Górale", directed by Barbara Wiśniewska, at the Wrocław Opera in Poland.

The works of Vasyl Savchenko decorate the walls of our restaurant, but they are not here forever. They are waiting for you, because each of the graphics can be purchased, and part of the funds from the purchase is transferred by Vasyl to help Ukraine.


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Michał Majchrowicz, son of Ryszard. Born on Friday 13th, April, 1984 in Gdynia. Since the early 90s, he has been “touched” by clay through the work of Ryszard, his father, at the Ceramics Plant of Artur Włodarczyk in Rumia.

After graduating from the Gdynia Art High School, under the guidance of the brilliant teacher Irena Zabrocka, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where in 2010 he graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture in the studio of Professor Stanisław Radwański, specializing in artistic ceramics under the guidance of Professor Teresa Klaman.

Four years after graduation, he purchased his first kiln for firing ceramics, and began an apprenticeship related to the production of utility ceramics in the form of tableware.

Through the difficulties of orders, he collaborated with local ceramic factories such as the Grzegorz Rogiński Artistic Workshop, or in Chmielno (a region of Kashubian utility ceramics) with Eugeniusz Trowski's Genius Ceramika workshop.

In 2014, he led workshops on creating kai during Gdynia Design Days in Gdynia, together with Dorota Wnuczyńska from the Mozaiqa studio.

In 2016, he began cooperation with the now defunct Gdańsk restaurant Metamorfoza, which became a kind of gateway to gastronomy-related activities.

Since June 2018, he has been running his own business, mainly related to the hand-made production of ceramic dishes for restaurants. His clients include restaurants, bistros, cocktail bars and sushi bars from the Tri-City and Warsaw.
Michał Majchrowicz also created an extraordinary series of dishes for our restaurant.


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