Martyna Jastrzębska (born in 1987) – multimedia artist, a graduate and a lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland.
Since 2013 Martyna Jastrzębska has been working with “bitumix” which constitutes her signature technique utilising a variety of mixtures of glues and bitumen. This material has become the means of expression for the artists’ interests – focused around imitating organic and ambiguous matter. Placing objects and symbols that function in the popular imagination in new contexts has been an important motif in her artistic activity. Martyna Jastrzębska continues exploring the notions that began in the work entitled Once Upon a Time (2013) – the “unmemory” – a deformed consciousness, the “bad” memory that impairs the clear message of symbols and events.
Exhibitions and individual artistic activity:
2020 - Bad trip, Tajna Galeria, Gdańsk
2019 - Diptych, Kulturhauz, Toruń
2018 - Twilight state, WL4 - Milk Peter, Gdańsk
2017 - Klechda, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk
2015 - Vergessenheit, WYSPA Institute of Art, Gdańsk
2014 – BITUMIX, Nowe Miejsce gallery, Warsaw
2014 – WAITING, an open, international project on impacting the public space with objects
2014 – Klasa (Class), 3A Project Space, Gdynia
2013 – Godło (Emblem), WYSPA Institute of Art, Gdańsk
2013 – Once Upon a Time, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk
Selected exhibitions and collective works:
2020 - NEWCOMERS. New Collection for the New 100th Anniversary; Koneser Prague Center, Warsaw
2020 - New order, POS, Łódź
2020 - Spring in the Józef Bem Housing Estate; Arsenal Gallery, Białystok
2020 - Over the structures; CICA Museum, Gimpo
2019 - Nest. 1939/1989/2019; Galerie Art Supplement, Göttingen
2019 - Woman's Essence; Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
2018 - Perspektive sjevera; AŽ Atelieri Žitnjak, Zagreb
2018 - Found ă mentalism II, St James Cavalier, Valletta
2017 - re_form 11. Internationale Ausstellung, Ostrale Biennale, Dresden
2017 - Grassomania 9 Sieroca Re: visited vol. 2, Gdańsk
2016 - Gdańsk Biennale of Art; Gdańsk City Gallery 2, Gdańsk
2016 - Animal; Bardzo Biała Gallery, Warsaw
2016 - Bones of all men; Centre Of Contemporary Art, Toruń
2016 - Narracje #8 Kingdom 60,8 m a.s.l; Gdańsk
2016 - We will see; Konnektor forum für künste, Hannover
2016 - Oksydan; 11. inSPIRACJE festival, 13muz, Szczecin
2015 - WYSPA 3.0. The Map and the Territory; WYSPA Institute of Art, Gdańsk
2015 - The Young Art Biennal "Fish Eye" 8; Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk
2015 - Absolwent (Graduate); WYSPA Institute of Art, Gdańsk
2014 - To nie moja bajka! (It's not my story!); Gunter Grass Gallery, Gdańsk
2014 – Xtreme; 10. inSPIRACJE festival, 13muz, Szczecin
2014 – Powroty (Returns), Neurony Lustrzane, Warsaw
2013 – Przebiśniegi – a piece at the exhibition entitled “…apokryfy, imponderabilia – Alina Szapocznikow”), PGS, Sopot
@ma.jastrzebska