Our employees

Tennis is my passion

Sport is the essence of my life and lawn tennis is my passion. I try to play tennis at least 2-3 times a week. I also play at the PBG Return Tennis Club. I have had the chance and great pleasure to watch the world's best tennis players in Sopot, Poznań and Wrocław, as well as in Paris, Rome and Barcelona. Apart from tennis, I also enjoy jogging, swimming and cycling.

Arkadiusz Jankowiak

 

PBG Band

My hobby is music. During my school and university years, I used to play the guitar in a few bands. Unfortunately, as is often the case, they all eventually fizzled out. Currently, PBG Band is my main musical activity. The name is not coincidental as the band consists exclusively of the PBG Group's employees. I had never expected that my job would allow me to pursue my passion, rehearsals and concerts including.

Bartosz Kuźmin
 

Black powder shooting

There are various hobbies but if you have ever fired a gun and smelled burnt gunpowder, you quickly develop an addiction. Every month there are more and more enthusiasts of this leisure activity... I used these words to promote black powder shooting in our Corporate Bulletin more than three years ago. In September 2009, I had the privilege to invite all history lovers to an exhibition of muzzleloaders accompanied by a photo presentation documenting the activities of the association of shooters of historic and black powder weapons "Poznański Regiment Odprzodowy". The exhibition was organised by the PBG Gallery. An additional attraction was the screening of a TV documentary about shooting historic weapons as a form of leisure activity.

Błażej Wolniewicz
 

Footballer since childhood

One of my hobbies is football, which I have played since I was a child. Sport is my passion: it allows me to relax and unwind. Privately I play in the Polonia Poznań club, in the PBG Group's Football League I am a member of the management team. In October 2011 I was selected, on behalf of PBG, to the Builders' team, which was to play with Ukraine. Being able to play dressed in the national colours on one of the Euro 2012 Stadiums was a very emotional experience for me: I literally had tears in my eyes. And all that was possible thanks to PBG and the belief that we can pursue our passions at work.

Damian Różewski

Environmental protection

I am extremely lucky to be working with people who are eco-conscious. I believe that together we will manage to protect what we have received form Nature for the benefit of future generations.

Ewa Jernas

Go Lech, go!

Having its employees' wellbeing and passions in mind, PBG has created a well-endowed social fund which caters for all tastes and offers an opportunity to combine work with hobbies, whatever they might be. I have chosen partial refunds of the price of tickets for matches of my favourite football team. I cannot imagine missing the goals being scored by Lech Poznań.

Hanna Gajewska

Passion for journalism

Ideally, one should be able to combine work with passion. In this respect, I live in an ideal world. Being interested in humanities, I work for a construction company. How am I able to combine my work with my hobby? That's simple (and extremely satisfying): I make a magazine!

Joanna Skałuba, editor of the Ogniwo corporate bulletin
 

Art and business

My unusual adventure with art began when I started working for PBG as a PR specialist. From the very beginning, I took part in various artistic initiatives, which have gradually led to the present successful coexistence of art and business at our Company. Next year, the PBG Gallery will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Meetings with artists, the ability to constantly realise new ideas and, most of all, the amazing sensitivity of our Patrons for art - are the sources of enormous satisfaction for me. The recipients of the art, mostly my colleagues, by showing interest in what is going to be shown next at our gallery, prove that it is worthwhile to discover and showcase art - every day.

I am happy that my work is also my passion.

Lidia Prętka, the PBG Gallery Manager
 

What a fish!

I am a keen angler and fishing for me is something more than just a way of having a nice time by the water. It has become a part of my identity: in my mind's eye, there is always the picture of a fishing pole, a lake or a river.

Being in charge of the PBG Merlin Fishing Club is a source of enormous pleasure and satisfaction. It enables me to constantly develop my hobby. Moreover, it is an excellent opportunity to meet my colleagues outside work, exchange ideas and assist each other in developing new skills.

Łukasz Zieliński
 

Pencil and brush

My personal experience with drawing started when I was two. It was then that I managed to draw a horse for the first time. I spent the following years perfecting my sense of proportion. In order to draw an animal properly, I had to learn its anatomy but also to watch it a lot. At the age of 12, I got an album with Jerzy Kossak's equestrian paintings from my parents. Ever since then Kossak has been my favourite painter and a great source of inspiration. I also started to draw still lifes and nudes. In my works I try to develop an original approach to chiaroscuro, movement, proportions and perspective.

During my years in an art school I learnt many other techniques but drawing has always been most inspirational to me. It may seem simple but it requires considerable skills and the ability to concentrate. I put my heart into every drawing and each sketch, even the tiniest one, is important to me. To this day, I admire Kossak and other Polish realist painters but I find inspiration also in the works of contemporary artists, including the controversial Egon Schiele.

Drawing remains my passion in which I try to express myself. I show my works at the PBG Gallery.

Magdalena Mielcarek

A satirical take on reality

I don't remember the exact moment when my adventure with satirical drawing began. I suppose that at first I didn't even call it satirical. It was of course my mum that gave me my first drawing pen, pencils and crayons. She was also my first critic. As time went by, my wife took over the role of critically assessing my works before I showed them to anyone else.

As all boys growing up in the 1980s, I started my adventure with drawing by depicting and commenting on the rather bleak but, at least to a child, enjoyable reality. I used anything at hand to draw cars and war scenes (especially based on my favourite TV series about four tank men). I drew everywhere. Much to the dismay of my teachers, I made drawings also in the margins of my exercise books, and I modified pictures in textbooks. They all had to be unusual and funny. I remember that in primary school my exercise book doodling included pictures of tractors, planes, tanks and everything else rarely featured in other children's margins.

Later I became fascinated with comic books. I read Polish comics (such as Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek or Kapitan Żbik) voraciously, scrutinizing and admiring the pictures. I must have been the most dedicated viewer of Grażyna Szcześniak's Butik TV programme, where Edward Lutczyn drew live on air. My drawings started to be published, first in school and university bulletins, then in trade magazines. As time went by, I started to feel the urge to comment on the surrounding reality by means of satirical drawings. And this is what I can call 'my hobby'.

It is wonderful how the history has come full circle: today I buy crayons and colour markers for my children. I try to accompany them in their adventure with art, without interfering with their technique. I myself still remain an amateur: I have never learnt to draw professionally.

Today, thanks to the PBG Gallery and the PBG Foundation, I can share my passion with colleagues. I encourage everyone to make satirical drawings, even those who cannot draw at all. Remember: apart from pictures, there are also speech bubbles to be filled with funny comments. To do that, one does not have to be adept at drawing.

Piotr Hofman
 

The time machine

I have been passionately interested in history ever since I was a child. It is not irrelevant, of course, that I was reared on historical Polish movies (such as Pan Wołodyjowski or Karino). And because I like experiencing everything first hand, the discovery of historical reconstruction has been a real revelation to me. I took up horse-riding and fencing, I started to learn a lot not only about history but also more specifically about cavalry. Later, I met other enthusiasts and together we created a historical reconstruction group called 7 D.A.K.

Historical reconstruction is not only about dressing in uniforms. In order to recreate the past faithfully, you need both theoretical knowledge and practical efforts. It is a unique hobby in that it combines hours of reading in a comfortable armchair with some (occasionally pretty extreme) sporting challenges, because you simply cannot reconstruct cavalry battles without riding a horse or having some idea about fencing. It is an excellent way of keeping fit and letting off steam.

Of course, enthusiasts like me are quite numerous so it is possible to meet many people and share experiences. Various reunions, shows and historical events during which reconstructions take place attract many viewers. This motivates us: after all, we honour the memory of our ancestors while educating the posterity :). We record our exploits and show them during the Pieces of History (Okruchy historii) exhibitions at the PBG Gallery.

Łukasz Kaczor
 

I have sung since childhood

I have sung since childhood. I love it. Stage freight gives me the adrenaline I need to feel that I am alive. I had never expected to be able to pursue this particular passion working for a construction company.

Marta Abrasowicz
 

Photographer

I have worked for the PBG Group for 7 years now. My work involves providing graphic support and taking photos documenting PBG's activities, which are always very expressive and lively.

It gives me great satisfaction because I can combine professional duties with my hobby. As a result, I invest in my personal development at work, which is obviously reflected in my dedication and performance.

Robert Jatczak
 

Nature photographer

A naturalist by profession and by avocation, he collects plants and spends his free time hiking and photographing the beauty of Nature. At work, he deals with more down-to-earth aspects of environmental protection: the intricacies of legal regulations, cooperation with the authorities, obtaining permits, waste disposal, etc.

He manages to combine passion with work. He really enjoys what he does.

Agnieszka Michałowska