MARTYNA ANNA BENEDYKA

b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com
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EDUCATION

2025-26 Baroque Vocal Performance and Interpretation, Francis Poulenc Conservatory, France
2021-25 Bachelor of Music Vocal Studies - Opera, Oratorio, Lied, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania
2024 Baroque Singing - Early Music, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Latvia
2021-24 Music Teacher Training Certificate - Pedagogy, Psychology and Didactics, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania
2010-14 First Class Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Art and Design - Fine Art Painting, Gray's School of Art, Scotland, UK

CURATORIAL WORK

January 2025 - March 2026
Dialogues 4 - Inner Landscapes - Round Two, Dialogues Hybrid Art Project
January - August 2024
Dialogues 3 - Inner Landscapes - Round One, Dialogues Hybrid Art Project

MEMBERSHIPS

Futures Photography, The Netherlands ︎
Art Contemporain en Bretagne a.c.b, France
La Maison des Artistes, France
Pool Collective, Switzerland
Fotobus Society, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 The Sublime – Dan Hatmanu Gallery, Iași, Romania
2020 Rest Here – Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
2019 Return – Palette Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021 In Memory of My Feelings – i.e. Art Projects
2021 Kintsugi – Contemporary Identities

DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Interpiktorial – Kunstraum Arcade / Beethovenhaus, Mödling, Austria
duo exhibition with Henriette Leinfellner
curated by David Komary (by invitation)

2014–2015
A to/from B – Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
duo exhibition with Kaori Yamashita
curated by WAGON Naoko Mabon (by invitation)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
7 Aukcja Marzeń – DESA Unicum / Bellotto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (by invitation)

2025
Jólasýningin í Ásmundarsal – Ásmundarsalur Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland (by invitation)
Unage Iași Art Residency – Retrospective Exhibition, Octogon Gallery / Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
Black Box Guest Room – Der Greif, Munich, Germany (selected)
Anonymous Drawings – Hyper Cultural Passengers, Hamburg, Germany
Anonymous Drawings – Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
Openbach Vincennes Summer Residency - Retrospective Exhibition, OpenBach Gallery, Paris, France

2024-2025
Anonymous Drawings – Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2024
Collage Notes – Paris Collage Collective, Espace Canopy, Paris, France
Playing With Reality – Collage Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Unveiling Structures – De Structura, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn, Estonia
The Killed Book – PhMuseum Days, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, DumBO Spazio Bianco, Bologna, Italy
The Object of Scorn – ISSP Riga Residency, Bolderāja, Riga, Latvia
Museum of Repairing Reminiscences – Jamshed Memorial Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
A Testament to Loss – Too Tired Project
They Are Watching – Gallery25, Perth, Australia
Glimpse – AIR Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria

2023
(make) belief – Der Greif Guest Room, Munich, Germany (selected)
Untitled #1 – Exposed Torino Foto Festival / Futures Photography - C2C Festival, OGR Torino, Italy
Strange Times and Improbable Encounters – Tanners’ Bastion Gallery, Târgu Mureș, Romania
Unveiling Structures – Juxtapose Art Fair, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
Unveiling Structures – Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
Past & Present – Der Greif, Pavillon 333 at Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
Experience Peace – 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media – Stuttgart, Germany

2022–2023
De Structura – cross-border exhibition & solo performance, Estonia
Eureka – DongGang International Photo Festival, South Korea
Algorithmic RS AV Exhibition – Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
Experience Peace – Classix Festival, Romania (by invitation)
Meet The Artists – Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2021
Obsessions – Photographic Exploration Project, Tête Gallery, Berlin, Germany
My Love Is Your Love – Every Woman Biennial, Superchief Gallery, New York, USA
In Memory of My Feelings - Open Studio Exhibition, Castello di Squillace, Calabria, Italy
National Art Salon - Brăila Art Gallery, Brăila, Romania

2020–2021
Attempt 2020 – Jan Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, Poland

2020
Poem Vizual II – Galeria Labirint, Iași, Romania
Parade of the Schwitters’ Army, Kolaj Institute / Merz Gallery, USA / UK

2017–2018
Themersons 5 – Themersons Festival, Płocka Art Gallery, Płock, Poland
Big Village, Small World – Collagistas Festival, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
The Sketchbook Project – USA / Canada
Artoteka – Wrocław, Poland
Grande Biednale – Warsaw, Poland

2015–2016
Day of the Dead – Dada Centennial Exhibition, The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, USA
Apricity – Wall Projects Gallery, Scotland (by invitation)
Oliva in Painting – Gdańsk, Poland
Waves – Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
Federation of British Artists – Futures – London (by invitation)
Winter Exhibition – Wall Projects Gallery, Scotland (by invitation)
Artsyland 8 – Wall Projects II, The Old Rope Gallery, Scotland (by invitation)

2012–2014
Gray’s School of Art Degree Show – Aberdeen, UK
Pre-Degree Show – Edinburgh, UK
SPD Annual Painting Awards – Aberdeen, UK
Stars in My Eyes – Schwartz Gallery, London, UK The Seven Habits of Highly Anomalous People – Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, UK

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS

2024
Making a Dummy – Book presentation, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, DumBO / Spazio Bianco (Bologna, Italy)
Artist talk – ISSP Riga Residency (Bolderāja, Riga, Latvia)

2022
Invited artist talks – Confluence II Online Artist Residency (School of the Arts, USM / i.e. Art Projects), Penang, Malaysia (talks for resident artists)
Artist talk – In Memory of My Feelings, i.e. Art Projects (solo exhibition)

2021
Contemporary Painting Form From a Contemporary Painter’s Perspective – DEBATES Series, Mihai Ursachi House (Iași, Romania)

2015
Cultural Interchange Beyond Languages and Locations – Wagon / Seventeen Gallery (Aberdeen, UK)

GUEST ARTIST INTERVIEWS

2021 Forme Uniche, Italy
2021 The Bagel Hole, Canada

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS

2025
Finalist — Andrew Downes Performance Prize, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre (Birmingham, UK)
2024
Finalist — Artist’s Book Award / Premio Libro d’Artista, Studio Boîte (Italy)
Winner — Erasmus+ Grant, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (Latvia)
ArtCabbage Prize — Honourable Mention
2023
Winner — Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant (EU / Belgium)
Winner — Heather B. Mattera Opportunity Scholarship (New York, USA)
2022
Winner — Futures Photography Artist Membership (Netherlands)
Winner — Photo Romania Festival Portfolio Review (Romania)
Winner — Classix-in-Art Music Grant (Romania)
2021
Artist of the Month — NNC Gallery & Magazine (London, UK)
2014
Robert Brough Memorial Painting Scholarship (Scotland, UK)
2009
Scholarship for Artistic Achievements (Poland)
2003
Presidential Scholarship (Poland)

RESIDENCIES

2025 OpenBach Painting Residency, Paris, France
2024 ISSP Riga Photography Residency, Latvia
2024 AiR Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria
2023 At Home in Hundorf, Romania
2022 De Structura Forum, Tallinn and Narva, Estonia
2021 In ruins Residency, Squillace, Calabria, Italy
2020 Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, Spain
2020 Artalpha Painting Residency, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania

SELECTED MASTERCLASSES & WORKSHOPS

2025–2028
MAGNUM PHOTOS x FUTURES – Learn with Magnum Photos (Futures Artist)

2025
Handmade Accordion Bindings for Photobooks – Elizabeth Castaldo

2023–2024
Folio – Masterclass on Photobook, PhMuseum / Witty Books (selected)

2023
Unveil x Futures Photography – Futures Artist

2023
Storytelling with Photo Embroidery and Mixed Media – StrudelmediaLive (scholarship winner)

2023
Online Tutoring – Emese Mucsi, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center Budapest (winner)

2022–2025
MAGNUM PHOTOS x FUTURES – Learn with Magnum Photos (Futures Artist)
(including seminars with Alec Soth, Jeroen Kummer, Ramon Pez)

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

2025
Futures Photography — Magnum Photos / Centre photographique Rouen Normandie

2024
Futures Photography — VOID / The Eriskay Connection / Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center;
Portfolio Review — The Photographers' Gallery (online, Clare Grafik)

2023
Futures Photography — ISSP Riga / Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire / PhotoIreland / Magnum Photos

2022
Futures Photography — Circulation(s) / FOMU / Fotogalleriet Oslo

2022
Futures Photography Annual Meeting — CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia / invited portfolio reviews with Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs / Organ Vida / Fotofestiwal Łódź

BOOKS & PHOTOBOOKS

2025 The Killed Book (work in progress)
2023 Kintsugi — self-published
2014 On The Border — artist book (unique copy)

PHOTOBOOK FAIRS / SELECTIONS

2023 Tsundoku Art Book Fair, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland︎

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2025
Blooming — ISSP Riga Weekly Planner 2026 (Riga, Latvia)

2023
Ritual — ISSP Riga Weekly Planner 2024 (Riga, Latvia)
F-Stop Magazine — Black and White Issue (February 2023)

2022
Grupaj — Camera Cluj (Photography Publication)

2021
Contemporary Identities, Issue 9 — International Art Magazine
Lenscratch — Fine Art Photography feature
ArtConnect — Artists to Watch (Best of the Week)

2019
Pushing Out The Boat Magazine (Scotland, UK)

2015
Pushing Out The Boat Magazine (Scotland, UK)

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2025
Anonyme Zeichner (Berlin, Germany)

2023
Climate Art Collection (Berlin, Germany)

2020
Schwitters Army / MERZ Gallery (Sanquhar, UK)
George Enescu National University of the Arts (Romania)

2018
Płocka Art Gallery (Płock, Poland)
Brooklyn Art Library (Brooklyn, NY, USA)

2016
International Museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction (Santa Fe, USA)

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Japan
United Kingdom (Scotland, England)
Germany
Poland
Romania
Italy
Czechia

SELECTED PRESS AND REVIEWS

2024 Interpiktorial, Kunst Net
2024 Konstellation piktoraler Positionen, Kultur Online
2024 Interpiktorial Kooperationsausstellung mit AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich Martyna Benedyka, Henriette Leinfellner, Kunstraum Arcade
2023 The Sublime Solo Show, New Genres
2021 La residenza artistica In-ruins, fra archeologia e arte contemporanea, Segnonline
2021 Patrimonio archeologico del Mediterraneo. In-ruins presenta l’open studio delle artiste Alrai, Benedyka e del duo italiano Ceresoli Cosco, weboggi.it, 31.07.21
2015 Polish Contemporary Art Organisation: Waves, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 07-27.11.15
2015 A to/from B – a year-long silent conversation, Wagon Art, 01.03.15
2015 Federation of British Artists - Futures 2015, Wall Street International/Meer, 16.01.15