Born in 1990. Received the main prize at the 42nd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennial while still a student at the Katowice Academy of Fine Arts. Drawing on the heritage of New Expressionism, harmonizing with the themes raised by the artist on canvas, she has developed a characteristic painting technique. Czech’s paintings become a space for working through the relationships between the artist and others. She is interested in intense feelings: love, hatred, revenge, humiliation, submission, resistance, and pain, as well as death. The characters she presents not take on ambiguous moral roles and attitudes, obfuscating the interpretation of the above categories and making ethical judgments. Although her paintings are dominated by the analysis of toxic interpersonal relationships, animals are also significant — as the companions of misery, witnesses of massacres, and harbingers of the apocalypse.

Prizes:
2019
- Nomination for Polityka’s Passports 2019 in the Visual Arts category
2017
- Polish Radio Channel 3’s Talent Competition Laureate
2015
- Grand Prix winner - Awards of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage at the Biennale of Painting “Bielska Jesień 2015” in Bielsko-Biała

Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
The ING Polish Art Foundation
Kolekcja Sztuki PKO Banku Polskiego
Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko - Biała
Mazowieckie Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Elektrownia, Radom

Martyna Czech at Secondary Archive:
https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/martyna-czech/

SELECTED WORKS

Exhibitions

SOLO

2022
Born in the Country, with the City in her Blood, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
2020
- Summoning, CCA Kronika, Bytom
2019
- We have nothing in common, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
2018
- Jad 2, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów
2017
- Jad, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała
2016
- Certain Conflicts, Potency Gallery, Cracow

GROUP

2022
- 7 etapów życia kobiety, Willa Gallery, Łódź
- The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
- Women Art Power, MCCA Elektrownia, Radom
- Patrzymy inaczej na te same sprawy, BWA, Zielona Góra
- PERSONA (NON) GRATA, Centrum Aktywności Twórczej, Ustka
2021
- Shadows Conceal the Earth, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
2020
- We are terrible, BWA Olsztyn, Olsztyn
2019
- Paint also known as Blood, Museum on the Vistula, Warsaw
- Ratmonkey, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
- Household chores, Wykwit, Wroclaw
- The Palace of Arts. Young Polish Painting, Departament of Modern Art of the National Museum, Gdansk
- GAFU-Painting Frontiers 3, Faculty of Art, University of Ostrava, Ostrava
2018
- Children of Light, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała
- Great Sarmatians of this Country, BWA Tarnow, Tarnow
- Artists of Tarnow. Generation 2.1, Bwa Tarnow, Tarnow
- Nickel-and-dime Things Deluxe, Bazar Namyslowska, Warsaw
- Communication with Everything that is, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw
2017
- I hate everybody, Arman Galstyan Gallery, Warsaw
- 8th Youth Triennale, Polish Sculpture Centre, Oronsko
- Biennale of Young Art “Fish Eye” 9, Centre for Creative Activity, Ustka
- From Artificial Reality to Selfie. Self-portrait in Polish Art, BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw
- shwung, Schwarz Contemporary Gallery, Berlin
- Fantastic Chemistry:dysfunctional dysfunction, Różnia Gallery, Warsaw
- Motion, Gruning Gallery, Cracow
2016
- KREW-WERK, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
- EmptyTarnow?, Aspiranci Foundation, Tarnow
2015
- 42nd Biennale of Painting “Bielska Autumn”, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała

Publications