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Martyna Anna Benedyka
b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com
linktr.ee/martynabenedyka
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Education & Teaching
2022-2025 MAGNUM PHOTOS x FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography Course
2023-2024 PhMuseum x Witty Books
Photobook Masterclass
2024 Early Music - Baroque Singing
Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music
2025 Classical Music - Voice and Performance - Opera, Oratorio & Lied
2024 Music Teacher - Pedagogy, Psychology & Didactics
George Enescu National University of Arts
2020 Voice and Performance
Wasowski Vocal School
2010-2014 FIRST CLASS Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fine Art and Design - Fine Art Painting
Gray's School of Art, RGU, Scotland, UK
2010 - present English Teacher and Tutor
Curatorial Work
2024-2025
Dialogues 3 - Inner Landscapes, Dialogues Hybrid Art Project
Professional Membership
FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY
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Selected Projects & Exhibitions
UPCOMING
12 October - 16 November 2024
Interpictorial, Duo Show w/ Henriette Leinfellner, curated by David Komary
Opening: 12 October 2024
KUNSTRAUM ARCADE, Mödling, Austria
16 November 2024 – 12 January 2025
Anonymous Drawings, Group Show
Opening: 15 November 2024 / 5 pm
KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG/BETHANIEN, Berlin, Germany
7 February - 28 March 2025
Opening: 7 February 2025
KUNSTHAUS ERFURT, Erfurt, Germany
May 2025
HYPER CULTURAL PASSENGERS Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
January 2024 - August 2025
Dialogues 3 - Inner Landscapes, Dialogues Hybrid Art Project
2024
The Killed Book, PhMuseum Days 2024, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, DumBO
Spazio Bianco, Bologna, Italy
The Object of Scorn, ISSP Riga Residency, Bolderaja, Riga, Latvia
Museum of Repairing Reminiscences, Group Show, Jamshed Memorial Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
A Testament to Loss, curated by Maria
Barham-Black, Too Tired Project
They Are Watching, Group Show, curated by Elham Shafaei, Gallery25, Perth, Australia
Glimpse, Show and Open Studio,
Air Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
October 2023 - May 2024
Folio 2023/24 Online Masterclass On Photobook with Witty Books and PhMuseum
2023
Ritual, ISSP Riga Calendar 2024 (selected), Latvia
(make) belief, Guest Room by Daniel Boether-Smith (CCP Australia) & Tanvi Mishra, Der Greif
(selected), Munich, Germany
Untitled #1, Exposed Torino Foto Festival, Futures Photography, C2C Festival, OGR Torino, Italy
Strange Times and Improbable Encounters, Tanners’ Bastion, Targu Mures, Romania
Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Juxtapose Art Fair, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
Experience Peace, S7 Video Sound Archive
The Sublime, Solo Show, Dan Hatmanu Gallery, Iasi, Romania
Past & Present, Der Greif, Pavillon 333 at Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
Dance in collages, Jazz Dance Open, Pardubice, Czechia
36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2022-2023
De Structura, cross-border project, Tallinn, Estonia
Eureka, DongGang International Photo
Festival,
Photography Museum,
Yeongwol, South Korea
2022
Futures Photography Annual Event, Camera
- Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino, Italy
Algorithmic RS AV Exhibition, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
Experience Peace, Classix Festival, Romania
De Structura, Performance and AR Show, Narva, Tallinn, Estonia
Meet The Artists, Futures, Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dance in Collages, Jazz Dance Open Festival, Pardubice, Czechia
In Memory Of My Feelings, Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects
2021
Inspired by Words, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
In Memory of My Feelings, Show and Open Studio, In-ruins, Castello di Squillace, Calabria, Italy
Kintsugi, Solo Show, Contemporary Identities, Virtual Gallery
Obsessions, Photographic Exploration Project (PEP), Tête Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Women In World History, UNIFERO, Busteni, Romania
My Love Is Your Love, Every Woman Biennial 2021,
Superchief Gallery, New York City, USA
Fusion Arts Fair, Noblesse Palace, Bucharest, Romania
National Art Salon, Braila Art Gallery,
Braila, Romania
2020-2021
Attempt 2020, Jan Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, Poland
2020
Open Art, Virtual, Art Number 23 Gallery, London, UK
| Athens, Greece
Together We Are One, Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland
Poem Vizual II, Galeria Labirint, Iasi, Romania
On The Table, Virtual, Marram Arts, Scotland, UK
Rest Here, Solo Show, Aparte Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2020, 2030
Parade of the Schwitters’ Army, Kolaj Institute,
New Orleans, Louisiana | Merz Gallery,
Sanquhar, Scotland, UK
2019
Return, Solo Show, Palette Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018
Themersons 5, Themersons Festival, Plocka Art Gallery, Plock, Poland
Big Village, Small World, Collagistas Festival, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin, Ireland
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, NY | Chicago, IL | Atlanta, GA | Spartanburg, SC, USA | Toronto, Canada
2017
Artoteka, Food Think Tank Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
The Artbox.Project Basel 1.0, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Grande Biednale, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2016
Day of the Dead - Dada Centennial Exhibition, The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Apricity, Mid-Winter Exhibition, Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland, UK
Oliva in Painting, Warzywniak Art Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
2015
Waves, PCAO, Summerhall, The Sciennes Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Federation of British Artists - Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Wall Projects Winter Exhibition, Montrose, Scotland, UK
2014-2015
A to/from B, A Year-Long Silent Conversation, Two Person Exhibition w/ Kaori Yamashita, curated by WAGON Naoko Mabon, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
2014
Artsyland 8, Wall Projects II, The Old Rope Works, Montrose, Scotland, UK
Open Your Eyes, Gray's School of Art Degree Show, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Opening Credits, Gray's School of Art Pre-Degree Show, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2013
Stars in My Eyes, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
2012
The Seven Habits of Highly Anomalous People, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
SPD Annual Painting Awards Exhibition, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Guest Artist Talks
2024
Making a Dummy - Book Presentation,
Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, DumBO Spazio Bianco, Bologna, Italy
Artist Talk, ISSP Riga Residency, Bolderaja, Riga, Latvia
March - April 2022
Guest Artist Talks, Confluence II - Online Artist Residency in collaboration with, inter alia, the i.e. Art Projects and the School of the Arts
(SOTA), USM, Penang, Malaysia
2022
In Memory Of My Feelings Artist Talk, accompanying the Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects
2021
Contemporary Painting Form From Contemporary Painter’s Perspective.
What Is Necessary? DEBATES Series,
Mihai Ursachi House, Iasi, Romania
2020
Rest Here | Rămâi aici, Artalpha, Galeria
Labirint, Iasi, Romania
My Art Practice, Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, Oristà, Barcelona, Spain
2015
Cultural Interchange Beyond Languages
and Locations, Wagon, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen,
Scotland, UK
Selected Masterclasses / Workshops
2024
46. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby, Germany (Selected)
Baroque Singing Masterclass with
Dr. Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland), Early Music Week, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania (Scholarship)
Early Music Singing Masterclass,
WinterAkademie & Historic Brass Studio, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany (Selected)
October 2023 - May 2024
Folio 2023/24 Masterclass On Photobook, PhMuseum and Witty Books (Winner)
2023
Storytelling with Photo Embroidery and Mixed Media with Jolanda Drukker Murray, StrudelmediaLive (Scholarship Winner)
Unveil x Futures Photography (Futures Artist)
Online Tutoring with Emese Mucsi, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center Budapest (Winner)
45. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby, Germany (Selected)
2022-2025
Magnum Photos x Futures Photography (Futures Artist), including seminars with Alec Soth, Jeroen Kummer, Ramon Pez, a/o
2022
Futures Photography with
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs,
Camera
- Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Italy (Futures Artist)
M&C Saatchi Open House
44. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby, Germany (Selected)
Artist Interviews
Forme Uniche, 2021
The Bagel Hole, 2021
Selected Scholarships and Awards
2024
Artist’s Book Award/Premio Libro d’Artista, Finalist, Studio Boîte, IT
Winner of the Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, AT
Winner of the Erasmus+ Grant,
Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, LV
Winner of the Artist Residency, Noosfera, Tbilisi, Georgia (postponed)
ArtCabbage Prize, Honourable Mention
2023
Winner of the Heather B. Mattera Opportunity Scholarship, NYC, US
Winner of the At Home In Hundorf Art Residency, RO
Winner of the Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant, BE
2022
Winner of the Futures Photography Artist Membership, NL
Winner of the Classix-in-Art Music Grant, RO
Winner of the De Structura Project 2022-23, EE
Winner of the Photo Romania Festival Portfolio Review, RO
2021
Artist of the Month, NNC Gallery & Magazine, London, UK
Winner of the In-ruins Residency, IT
Albe Art Gallery, Honourable Mention
2020
Winner of the Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, ESP
Winner of the Artalpha Art Residency, RO
2014
Winner of the Robert Brough Memorial Scholarship, UK
2009
Winner of the Scholarship for Artistic Achievements, PL
2003
Winner of the Presidential Scholarship, Gdansk, PL
Art and Music Residencies
2024
ISSP Riga Photography Residency, Riga, Latvia
Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau, Austria
2023
At Home in Hundorf, Hundorf, Romania
2022
De Structura (DS) Forum, Tallinn and Narva, Estonia
2021-2022
The Order Of Things, Self-Directed Residency, The Balkans
2021
In ruins Residency, Squillace, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
2020
Together, Separately, Cel del Nord Virtual Residency, Orista, Barcelona, Spain
Artalpha Painting Residency, George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania
Portfolio Reviews
2024
Futures Photography Conversations online with VOID, The Eriskay Connection, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, online with Clare Grafik
2023
Futures Photography Conversations online with ISSP Riga, Galerie les filles du Calvaire Paris, PhotoIreland Dublin, Magnum Photos London
2022
Futures Photography Conversations online with Circulation(s) Paris, FOMU Antwerp, Fotogalleriet Oslo
Futures Annual Meeting w/ Organ Vida Zagreb, Fotofestiwal Lodz, TaiyoOnorato&Nico Krebs, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy
Selected Collections & Publications
Ritual, ISSP Riga Agenda, 2024 (selected), LV
Your Design Juice, July 2023
Climate Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
Alchemy: A Journal of Translation, February 2023
F-Stop Magazine, Black and White Issue February 2023
Grupaj, Photography Publication, Camera, 2022
Your Design Juice, March 2022
Voleger Mag
Forbidden Verses
Cerasus Magazine, Issue 3
Stuck in Notes Magazine, Issue 3
Salt ’n’ Sauce Magazine, Issue 1
Your Design Juice, November 2021
Your Design Juice, September 2021
Pastel Serenity Zine, Issue 5, 2021, 2022
Postscript Magazine, August 2021
No Name Collective Gallery Magazine
Color Tag Magazine, Vol. 3, 2021
The Purposeful Mayo Magazine
Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, 2021
Mnemosphere Project, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2021
The Spring City Journal, 2021
ArtConnect, Artists to Watch, Best of the Week, 2021
No(w)here Collective, 2021
Contemporary Identities, Issue 9, International Art Magazine, 2021
Lenscratch, Fine Art Photography, 2021
Quince Magazine, London, 2021
Postscript Magazine, UAE, 2020
World Wide Art Magazine, Winner, USA, 2020
http://kolajinstitute.org/collections/schwitters-army/SA018.html
George Enescu National University of the Arts, Romania
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, UK
Art Gazette, London, UK
Pushing Out The Boat, UK, 2019
Płocka Art Gallery Collection, PL
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The International Museum of Collage,
Assemblage & Construction Collection, Santa Fe,
USA
Summerhall TV, Edinburgh, UK
Wspólnota Gdańska, PL
A to/from B Photobook, 2015
https://a-to-from-b.tumblr.com/
Pushing Out The Boat, UK, 2015
Collage Collective (The CC Presents: Ken)
Central Stn The Creative Social Network
Scottish Art Blog, 2014
Private Collectors
Selected Press and Reviews
https://segnonline.it/la-residenza-artistica-in-ruins-fra-archeologia-e-arte-contemporanea/
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/calabria/notiziari/index.html?/tgr/video/2021/08/ContentItem-e569e82e-af90-44d2-ba8f-1261712c1522.html
https://www.facemagazine.it/in-ruins-in-calabria-larcheologia-incontra-larte-contemporanea/
https://www.collater.al/en/inruins-artistic-residency-archaeology-contemporary-art/
https://dernierbaiser.mondoblog.org/author/fanchon/
https://artemagazine.it/attualita/item/13453-in-ruins-l-arte-contemporanea-per-valorizzare-l-archeologia-del-mediterraneo
https://www.lanuovacalabria.it/squillace-parte-in-ruins-2021-il-progetto-per-valorizzare-il-patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo
https://www.weboggi.it/cronaca/patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo-in-ruins-presenta-lopen-studio-delle-artiste-alrai-benedyka-e-del-duo-italiano-ceresoli-cosco-1/
https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/2021/07/inruins-residenze-squillace/
https://calabria.live/a-squillace-in-ruins-la-residenza-dartista-che-vuole-valorizzare-il-patrimonio-archeologico-del-mediterraneo/
https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/con-in-ruins-l-arte-contemporanea-rilegge-archeologia-del-mediterraneo/
https://arte.sky.it/news/mostra-giovane-boccioni-milano-galleria-bottegantica
Wall Street International
https://vimeo.com/145614702
https://wagonart.org/2015/03/01/new-curatorial-project/
http://kolajmagazine.com/artistdirectory/martyna-benedyka
http://thisiscentralstation.com/degree-shows/grays-degree-show-review/
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