Marta Krześlak

About:

Marta is mostly inspired by existing space, creates installations and site-specific projects. Her artistic preoccupations revolve around dreams, memories, remembered or imagined landscapes. Using found objects and following decisions already made she constructs narratives in which she analyzes the nature of human action, often stressing its absurdity. Marta lives in small village in the centre of Poland and works in her garage. She is a winner of the Grand Prix at the Young Wolves Art Festival in Szczecin, the Grey House Foundation Prize in Cracow, and the Best Art Graduation Project in Gdańsk, all in 2018.

Education:

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2018). She also studied in the Faculty of Media Arts in Warsaw and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.

2013 – 2018: Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Painting and Graphic Department (Master of Art in June 2018)

2016 – 2017: Warsaw Academy of Art, New Media Art Department

2017 – 2018: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Art Department

Individual exhibitions:

2019 - Stars cry, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland

2019 - Garage sketches, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava, 24/05 – 14/06/2019

2019 - Lagoon, Groszowe Sprawy & Warsaw Biennal, Warsaw

2019 - Ruins of my dreams, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin

2019 - Party at Artists' club, Ujazdowski Castle, Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

2019 - Fairy Tales, Industra Art Space, Brno, Czech Republic

2019 - Spacial Composition, Video Program, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

2018 - Ruins of my dreams, Czynna Gallery, Lodz

Date of residency 2. 10.– 30. 11. 2019