Marta Antoniak

The works of Marta Antoniak absorb snippets of the real world – (pop) culture themes, forms and matter. The artist examines things and follows their journey.

She explores the merging of materials, forms and meanings and allows memories, direct experiences and imagination mediated by the world of comics, animated films, music videos, children’s toys or teen magazines to mix.

Marta Antoniak creates multi-layered worlds in which kitsch and pop culture rituals become tools for critical thinking, while cultural clichés and visual codes overlay personal snippets of memory. In her paintings, installations, drawings, collages and sculptures, Marta Antoniak maps deviations and deformations of forms and meanings, focusing on objects understood as residues of events. In her work, art techniques are intertwined with the world of materials and motifs from outside art. The exhibition will present paintings and three-dimensional works from different stages of the artist’s career, including two new painting series.

Marta Antoniak (b. 1986 in Zabrze) is a visual artist, who creates paintings and spatial works. She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk in 2011 and was awarded her PhD in 2017. She works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She has participated in artist residencies, including Garage Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2018) and Jeune Crèation Europeènne, Amarante, Portugal (2010). Marta Antoniak’s works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the collection of the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, the P for Painting contemporary art collection of mBank, the PKO BP Art Collection, the collection of the National Museum in Lublin, the collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk, the art collection of the Bielska BWA Gallery and the art collection of the Chancellery of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.

Curator: Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk

Coordinator: Reneta Zawartka

Marta Antoniak, Christmas Dust II, 2024, 130×100 cm (fragment), photo. R. Sosin