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Martyna Pinkowska was born in 1997. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2022, where she defended her diploma exhibition Polly Pocket Syndrome<\/i> under the supervision of Professor Jacek Ryka\u0142a. She works with painting and film, creates objects and installations. In her work, the artist reflects on what shapes her female identity. A feeling of uncertainty is the basis of her works, in which fantasy and reality intertwine. She finds recurring elements in her own experiences and those of women closest to her, recognising universal fears, anxieties and desires. Pinkowska explores how we navigate expectations and paradigms of femininity, focusing on the relationship between mother and daughter.<\/p>\n
Martyna\u2019s exploration of the body and skin draws from her personal experiences. Her struggle with body image and perception becomes a lens through which she examines broader cultural anxieties around physicality and identity. Her surreal compositions of fragmented, intertwined, and blurred figures tread the thin line between concealment and exposure, vulnerability and strength. She questions how the body\u2019s function as a site of comfort or discomfort shapes one\u2019s self-image. Martyna explores to what extent is the body a costume and what does it mean to inhabit one\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n
Her practise delves into the symbolic potential of clothing, skin, and the act of dressing, or undressing, one\u2019s self. Martyna draws on the body as a vessel for emotional and cultural meanings, exploring its role as a \u201ccostume\u201d that both defines and obscures identity. Her works invite contemplation of the ways we inhabit our bodies, the dissonance between how we see ourselves and how we are seen, and the material and emotional labor of self-presentation.<\/p>\n
She lives and works in Warsaw.<\/p>\n
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Selected solo exhibitions:<\/p>\n
2025<\/p>\n
Body Against Body<\/em>, State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Sopot, PL<\/p>\n 2024<\/p>\n Nada Villa Warsaw, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n 2023<\/p>\n Golden<\/em>, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n 2022<\/p>\n Polly Pocket Syndrome<\/i>, Galeria Serce Cz\u0142owieka, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Selected group exhibitions:<\/p>\n 2025<\/p>\n BODY. Several scenes of nudity, MGS w Cz\u0119stochowie, Cz\u0119stochowa, PL<\/p>\n NADA Miami, Miami, US<\/p>\n A Sense of Space<\/em>, ABRI MARS, New York, US<\/p>\n 2024<\/p>\n A Small Land of Watery Light<\/em>, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN<\/p>\n 2023<\/p>\n Critical Mass<\/em>, Oblat\u00f3w 4, Katowice, PL<\/p>\n 2022<\/p>\n Naj, Naj, Naj<\/em>, Pr\u00f3\u017cnia Gallery, Szczecin, PL<\/p>\n Material Fatigue<\/i>, Central Museum of Textiles, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, PL<\/p>\n The Discomfort of Evening<\/i>, Zach\u0119ta \u2013 National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n Migrations<\/i>, Galeria Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej BWA, Katowice, PL<\/p>\n Refugees Welcome<\/i>, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n 2021<\/p>\n Materia bazowa<\/i>, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL<\/p>\n Under My Ribs a Home Lives<\/i>, Galeria Serce Cz\u0142owieka, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n In These Days of Tumult, Heat and Dazzle, I Retreat into My Mind<\/i>, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL<\/p>\n Uwa\u017caj, niech tylko m\u00f3j terapeuta to us\u0142yszy<\/i>, Galeria Podbrzezie, Cracow, PL<\/p>\n Salon Wiosenny<\/i>, Galeria Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej, Opole, PL<\/p>\n Nowy Obraz Nowe Spojrzenie<\/i>, Stara Papiernia, University of the Arts, Pozna\u0144, PL<\/p>\n 2020<\/p>\n First Sense, <\/i>Cricoteka, Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Cracow, PL<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-6152","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}