oil, canvas, 70 x 90 cm signed, dated and described on the stretcher: MARTYNA CZECH "IGRASZKA "70 x 90 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2019
provenance: private collection, Warsaw
exhibited: Nic nas nie łączy, BWA WARSZAWA, 2019 (in duo with Leszek Knaflewski).
Martyna Czech was born in 1990 in Tarnow, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, graduating in 2017 in the studio of Andrzej Tobis. Even before her graduation, she was the winner of the 42nd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale in 2015. The jury's verdict divided viewers. Czech's paintings have been stirring emotions and controversy since her acclaimed debut and the artist's uncompromising nature is one of her trademarks. In her expressive, multicolored canvases, Czech reveals her critical attitude toward the human species. The irony, obscenity and turpitude present in her work are among the leading currents in the art of a generation of young artists in Poland and abroad. Martyna Czech, alongside artists such as Aleksandra Waliszewska and Karolina Jablonska, was a pioneer of this aesthetics and attitude. Her compositions are based primarily on color stain with expressive and saturated colors. The protagonists of Chekhov's paintings are people and animals, whose roles and relationships intermingle, revealing new, hidden facets of the species. The artist's works can be found in the collections of: National Museum in Gdansk,
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, ING Polish Art Foundation, PKO Bank Polski art collection, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, MBank "M jak malarstwo" collection.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2024 - Yalowizna, CCA ZNAKI CZASU, Toruń.
2023 - Flying paintbrush, GX Gallery - See Everything, Siemianowice Slaskie. Year of the Water Rabbit, BWA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
2022 - Born of the village, with blood from the city, BWA Warsaw, Warsaw.
2021 - Choryskop, Konkluzja Gallery, Cracow.
29/100, BWA Warsaw, Warsaw.
2020 - "Evocation," CCA Kronika, Bytom; "Martyna Czech. Awakens Emotions," Clay Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 - "Nothing connects us" with Leszek Knaflewski, BWA Warsaw, Poland.
2018 - "Venom 2", BWA Tarnów
2017 - "Venom", Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biala
2016 - "Certain conflicts", Potency, Krakow
Selected group exhibitions:
2025 - Collection of Wojciech Fibak NOWE POKOLENIE, Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia", Radom.
2024 -From the PERSPECTIVE OF THE FISH EYE, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk.
2024 --New Generation and Classics from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, CCA ZNAKI CZASU, Toruń
2023 -The heart of Mazovian art beats in Radom , collection of the Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia", Radom.
2023 - Wildness of the Heart , Nanazenit, Warsaw.
2023 - I also feel, Rzeszowskie Piwnice, Rzeszów.
2023 - Critical mass, Oblatów4, Katowice.
2023 - Nightmares of the Ten, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznań.
2023 - Crush Club, Bliska Pavilion, Warsaw, Poland.
2023 - If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change. Works from the collection of Sylwia and Piotr Krup, Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw.
2023 - To be one with each other, GPD Agency, BWA Warsaw, Poznan.
2023 - Chapter 1: geographies of interdependence. Circulations of action, Goyki 3 Art Incubator, Sopot.
2023 - If I hadn't learned your language, you wouldn't even look at me - General Strike, Wolskie Centrum Kultury, Warsaw.
2023 - Transitional States. Exhibition from the BWA Bielska Gallery Art Collection, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biala.
2023 - Submerged with bare feet in warm water, Visiting Gallery, Warsaw.
2022 - 7 stages of a woman's life, Willa Gallery, Lodz.
2022 - Anxiety Comes at Dusk, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
2022 - Women Art Power, Elektrownia MCSW, Radom.
2022 - We look at the same things differently, BWA, Zielona Gora.
2022 - PERSONA (NON) GRATA, Center for Creative Activity, Ustka.
2021 - Ciemności kryją ziemię, BWA Warsaw, Warsaw.
2021 - M like youth, M Bank collection exhibition, State Art Gallery, Sopot.
2021 - Lebenswelt, Bovisamar in Miediolana, Italy.
2021 - The Pleasure of Intercourse, Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021 - The Pleasure of Intercourse, Szara Gallery, Katowice, Poland.
2021 - After the thread to the ball, City Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021 - Milk me sugar, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok.
2021 - "For Johanne and Anna - an exhibition from the art collection of BWA Bielska Gallery, BWA Bielsko-Biala.
2020 - "I will put my own soul in the magic storm", BWA Warsaw; "We are terrible", BWA Olsztyn; "Milk Me Sugar", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok;
2019 - "Paint Means Blood," MSN Warsaw; "Monkeybear," Rondo Sztuki, Katowice; "Homework," Wykwit, Wroclaw; "Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting," Branch of Modern Art National Museum in Gdansk; GAFU - Borders of Painting 3, Faculty of Art, Ostrava University, Ostrava
2018 - "Children of Light," Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biala
"The great sarmatics of this country / The great sarmatics of this country", BWA Tarnów
"Communication with all that is", Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2017 - "I hate everyone", Arman Galstyan, Warsaw.
8th Triennale of the Young, Center for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko, Poland,
9th Youth Art Biennale "Fish Eye", Center for Creative Activity in Ustka,
"From artificial reality to selfie. Self-portrait in Polish art", BWA Wrocław
2016 - "KREW-WERK," Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2015 - 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała.
