Michal Martychowiec

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Michal Martychowiec
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Born1987 (1987) (age 37)
Lublin, Poland
Education Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Known for Photography, Film, Installation, Drawing, Neon, Sculpture
Website https://michalmartychowiec.com/

Michal Martychowiec (born 1987) is a contemporary conceptual artist living between Berlin and London. [1]

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Career

Michal Martychowiec was born in Lublin, Poland in 1987. Martychowiec received a master’s degree with distinction in 2011 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. [2] [3]

In February 2016 Martychowiec gave a lecture at the Russian Institute of Art History in St. Petersburg. [4] He is a visiting lecturer at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. [5] His art is in both public and private collections, [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] including institutions such as OCAT in Nanjing, the British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection in London, the Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, C/O in Milan, and the Signum Foundation in Venice.

Martychowiec has exhibited widely in Europe and Asia, [12] with solo shows at institutions such as Centro Párraga (Murcia), [13] Weserburg Museum of Modern Art [14] [15] (Bremen), and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. [16] [17] His work has also been featured in the Beijing Biennial, [18] Trio Biennial (Rio de Janeiro), [19] Lianzhou Foto Festival, [20] and numerous group exhibitions. He was a finalist of the 2021 Berlin Masters Award [21] and a recipient of the 2022 Blue Project Foundation Prize. [22]

Martychowiec works across various media, including photography, [23] [24] film, drawing, [25] neon, [26] [27] painting, sculpture, [28] and installation. [29] [30] His work often incorporates socio-political commentary. [31] [32] Martychowiec work often explores the contemporary human condition through the lens of history, often making symbolic references to locations, events, figures, and artworks. [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] Themes of freedom, power structures, and the human condition are often prevalent in his work [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45]

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