Author: marta
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COMING SOON gaze / ASAR Anderlecht, Brussels, BE / 2026
7m garage rail with motors, iridescent organza, ribbons, artificial flowers, fishing lines, ropes, secondhand decorations coming soon opening: 24 April 2026, 7pm adress: 9 Avenue Van Kalken, Anderlecht Video documentation realised thanks to a National Recovery Plan for Culture Scholarship
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meadow / Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL / 2025
tracing paper, starched cotton, bamboo sticks, wire, iridescent tape / about 30m2 Part of a group show Landscapes of a Distant Down, 26 September 2025 – 10 January 2026 Curators: Marta Lisok, Zosia Janczy, Roman Lewandowski Mounted on a mesh structure, Marta Krześlak’s paper-cut installation is divided into two zones. One reflects the dynamics of…
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under eyelids / Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT / 2025
Video projection, tissue paper, graph paper, string, sewing pins, tent frame / dimensions 400 × 400 × 270 cm, video 5:23 Part of a group show, They sold us a dream then took away our sleep, 1 October – 13 December 2025 Curators: Kasia Sobczak, Vasco Forconi Photo: Carlo Romano A tent made of stitched…
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collages and drawings / 2019-2026
12,5 x 8,5 cm 12 x 9 cm 14 x 9,5 cm 9 x 11 cm 14 x 9,5 cm 12,5 x 8,5 cm 11,5 x 9 cm 9 x 12 cm 11 x 9 cm 12,5 x 9 cm 13 x 9 cm 9 x 11 cm 12,5 x 8,5 cm 8,5 x 12…
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net / Arlekin Puppet Theatre, Lodz, PL / 2024
Artificial flower petals, pieces of kites, ribbons, strings, trimmings, lace, Christmas tree decorations, iridescent papers Foyer of the Arlekin Puppet Theatre, 14 September – 31 December 2024, Photo: HAWA The objects in this installation are made from a variety of materials that reflect and refract light. Most are linear in form, giving the impression of…
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Weather Station / The Riverview Arts Festival, Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin, PL / 2024
Steel masts, wind vane, orbiter, Yagi antenna, CDs, resin stone, propeller, led diodes June – October 2024, Curators: Agnieszka Cieślak, Magdalena Linkowska, Aleksandra Skrabek Technical support: Bartek Buczek, Mateusz Michałek Photo: Marcin Butryn Along the Bystrzyca River, an array of metal masts supports kinetic objects that sway in the wind, catch the sun’s reflections, emit…
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blue / Kamienica Hilarego Majewskiego, Lodz, PL / 2024
Duplicate papier, translucent papier, tyvek sheet, steel wire, copper wire, incandescent light bulb, ceramic cylinder, iridescent tape As part of a group exhibition Kto to wymyślił? 15 February – 10 March 2024 Curator: Łukasz Ogórek Photo: Anna Zagrodzka This lantern is made of grid paper. Its walls are carved with images of dandelions blown apart.…
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Memory of a Fair / Narrations 14 Festival, Gdansk, PL / 2023
objects reflecting light suspended above the amphitheater, 8 pre-programmed mobile stage spotlights, 21 min audio 17-18 November 2023 curators: Katarzyna Słoboda, Jakub Gawkowski photo: Bogna Kociumas-Kos, Michał Algebra I collect materials of various textures and experiment with them, looking for a language and method of work that will help me act in a crisis and…
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Aurora / Art Walk Gallery, plac Europejski, Warsaw, PL / 2023
58 mini vibration motors, holographic film, metal wire, disco ball lights Part of a group show “499 seconds” 8 December 2022 – 31 March 2023 Artists/curators: Agnieszka Słodownik, Karolina Wlazło-Malinowska Such a mix-up!A black hole that isn’t a hole, but a high-density object.Falling stars that are meteors leaving luminous streaks behind them. The morning or…
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Time out of Joint / Museum of Art in Łódź, PL / 2022
Part of a group show “Time out of Joint” 3 June – 18 September 2022 Curator: Katarzyna Słoboda Photo: Anna Zagrodzka Time out of joint is time that has fallen out of the well-known framework, negating norms and linear thinking. It is the dimension where the relationships between the past, future, and present, as well…
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Likeness / The Łódź of Many Cultures Festival, Lodz, PL / 2022
Video 13’22” As part of a group show “Zbliżenia” Curator: Artur Chrzanowski Likeness is a video work about resemblance—between light and light, landscapes and memories, images and the associations they trigger. The title plays on multiple layers of meaning: likeness as similarity, like as something immediate and tactile, almost pop, and -ness as a state…
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Moving Things / Zachęta National Gallery Project Room, Warsaw, PL / 2021
10 December 2021 – 20 February 2022 Curator: Monika Kopczewska Photo: Anna Zagrodzka In her project entitled Moving Things, presented in Zachęta’s Project Room, Marta Krześlak, remaining faithful to her creative method, fills the gallery with moving images and objects. In the main hall, three mechanisms flicker in the light and make quiet sounds. Two of them…
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Fallen star / 6 dzielnica, Lodz, PL / 2021
30x30x30cm, to be viewed from 10m distance at last 24 June – 7 July 2021 Curator: Marcin Malecki, Joanna Głodek On the roof next to the 6 dzielnica lies a shooting star. You can see it through the binoculars available for rent at the bar, zoom in with your phone camera, or try to see…
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Home on a windy night / Pracownia Portretu, Lodz, PL / 2021
Video 9’00”, kinetic lights, arduino 13 November – 10 December 2021 Photo: Maciej Łuczak, Supported by City of Łódź Cooperation: Agata Krześlak, Mateusz Czuchnowski, Natalia Jastrzębska, Marcin Kuszmar, Piotrek Bronisz, Maciej Ślot The colour of the nebula lived in seclusion on thenorthern hill. One day, as he was preparing hislunch, he saw a great luminous…
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Floating planetarium, Mobile platform, Pond / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL / 2020
As a part of a group show “Something in common” 2 Oct 2020 – 17 Jan 2021 curator: Natalia Sielewicz, Tomasz Fudala photo: Sisi Cecylia The floating planetarium and the mobile structure are prototypes of enclaves that enable travel and immersion in nature, while blending public and private space. They employ wooden domes, hand-sewn tents,…
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Stars cry / Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk,PL / 2019
Modified bedside lamps, video projections, scrap metal pieces, sound, wooden deck 1 August – 14 September 2019 Curator: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak Photo: Bartosz Górka Stars Cry is an award of the Gdańsk City Gallery in the competition for the Best Diplomas of 2018, organised by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk M.A.N. Look at them…
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Lagoon / Groszowe Sprawy & Biennale Warszawa, Warsaw, PL / 2019
Scenographies from previous exhibitions, inflatable pools, food 1–2 June 2019 Curator: Maja Demska Photo: Monika Stolarska, Kasia Balicka Sunbeds, blankets and a lot of plastic. Adults, children and dogs. From a bird’s eye view, the Namysłowska Bazaar looks like a picnic on a city beach – the market spills every weekend over the former outdoor…
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Party at the Artists’ Club / Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL / 2019
Scenograpy, costume party 27 March – 5 May 2019 Curator: Marcin Polak Photo: Maciej Landsberg Party at the Artists’ Club, an exhibition by Marta Krześlak in the Project Room, takes the form of party decorations based on the motif of a coral reef on the bottom of the ocean. The point of departure for this…
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Ruins of my dreams / Galeria Czynna, Lodz, PL / 2018
Bouncy castle, audio / 1000x800x400 cm 29 June 2018 Master diploma work from Multimedia Studio of Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Supervisor: Łukasz Ogórek, Ania Bąk The ruins of my dreams is an unnecessary object turned into a sentimental landscape. I try to detach it from its remembered utility and give it a poetic…
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Pretty nothing / WIMA, Lodz, PL / 2018
Every 7 minutes for 15 seconds As part of exhibition ‘do it’ 4 October 2018 Curators: Jacek Laube, Karolina Balke Exhibition realised as a cooperation of students of Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz and Lodz Film School Dressed in a blue second-hand dress, I run through the vernissage. The exhibition is 1500m2 of post-industrial…
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Coral reef / Przecieki Sztuki, Freedom Square, Łódź, PL / 2017
poliuretan foam / 4x20m December 2017 – March 2018 curator: Michał Bieżyński
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A spatial composition / video / 2017
Video 5′ 27” The video is a recording of spontaneous activity in the space of my garage. I detach the objects I find inside from their usual function, which makes them stand out in the everyday reality remembered by the recipient. The piece is also an observation of how particular forms influence each other, creating…
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Collected works / video / 2015
Video 6′ 41” When exploring the area within 15 kilometres from home, the artist collected works created for a certain purpose that lost their function under the influence of the environment in which they exist, and thus became absurd or gained a new quality. The “collected works” are a proof of a man subconsciously creating…