Martyna Anna Benedyka
b.1991 in Gdynia, Poland
benedyka.m@gmail.com


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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


Curatorial Work

2024-2025
Dialogues 3 - Inner Landscapes, Dialogues Hybrid Art Project


Professional Membership
FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY ︎



Selected Projects & Exhibitions


NOW ON


16 November 2024 – 12 January 2025
Anonymous Drawings, Group Show
Opening: 15 November 2024 / 5 pm
KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG/BETHANIEN, Berlin, Germany



25 October - 7 December 2024
Playing With Reality, Collage Festival 2024, Bucharest Collage Collective
Opening: 25 October 2024
GREEN HOURS, Bucharest, Romania


UPCOMING

December 14 - 21, 2024
Collage Notes
Opening / Vernissage: December 14, 2024
ESPACE CANOPY
19 rue Pajol, Paris 75018, France

7 February - 28 March 2025 
Anonymous Drawings
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 Interpiktorial, Duo Show with Henriette Leinfellner, curated by David Komary,
Kunstraum Arcade, Beethovenhaus, Mödling, Austria
2024
The Killed Book, PhMuseum Days 2024, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia,
DumBO Spazio Bianco, Bologna, Italy
2024 The Object of Scorn, ISSP Riga Residency, Bolderaja, Riga, Latvia
2024 Museum of Repairing Reminiscences, Group Show, Jamshed Memorial Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
2024 A Testament to Loss, curated by Maria Barham-Black, Too Tired Project
2024 They Are Watching, Group Show, curated by Elham Shafaei, Gallery25, Perth, Australia
2024 Glimpse, Show and Open Studio, Air Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
2023-2024 
Folio 2023/24 Online Masterclass On Photobook with Witty Books and PhMuseum
2023 Ritual, ISSP Riga Calendar 2024 (selected), Latvia
2023 (make) belief, Guest Room by Daniel Boether-Smith (CCP Australia) & Tanvi Mishra,
Der Greif (selected), Munich, Germany
2023
Untitled #1, Exposed Torino Foto Festival, Futures Photography, C2C Festival, OGR Torino,
Italy
2023 Strange Times and Improbable Encounters, Tanners’ Bastion, Targu Mures, Romania
2023 Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Juxtapose Art Fair, Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
2023 Tsundoku Art Book Fair, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Unveiling Structures, De Structura, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2023 Experience Peace, S7 Video Sound Archive
2023 The Sublime, Solo Show, Dan Hatmanu Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2023 Past & Present, Der Greif, Pavillon 333 at Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
2023 Dance in collages, Jazz Dance Open, Pardubice, Czechia
2023 36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2022-2023 
De Structura, cross-border project, Tallinn, Estonia
2022-2023 Eureka, DongGang International Photo Festival, Photography Museum, Yeongwol, South Korea
2022
Futures Photography Annual Event, Camera - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia,
Torino, Italy
2022 Algorithmic RS AV Exhibition, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2022
Experience Peace, Classix Festival, Romania
2022 De Structura, Performance and AR Show, Narva, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Meet The Artists, Futures, Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2022 Dance in Collages, Jazz Dance Open Festival, Pardubice, Czechia
2022 In Memory Of My Feelings, Solo Show, i.e. Art Projects
2021 Inspired by Words, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2021 In Memory of My Feelings, Show and Open Studio, In-ruins, Castello di Squillace,
Calabria, Italy
2021 Kintsugi, Solo Show, Contemporary Identities, Virtual Gallery
2021 Obsessions, Photographic Exploration Project (PEP), Tête Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 Women In World History, UNIFERO, Busteni, Romania
2021 My Love Is Your Love, Every Woman Biennial 2021, Superchief Gallery, New York City, USA
2021 Fusion Arts Fair, Noblesse Palace, Bucharest, Romania
2021 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
2020 Together We Are One, Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 Poem Vizual II, Galeria Labirint, Iasi, Romania  
2020 On The Table, Virtual, Marram Arts, Scotland, UK
2020 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
2018 Big Village, Small World, Collagistas Festival, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2018 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, NY | Chicago, IL | Atlanta, GA | Spartanburg, SC, USA | Toronto, Canada
2017
Artoteka, Food Think Tank Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2017 The Artbox.Project Basel 1.0, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2017 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
2016 Apricity, Mid-Winter Exhibition, Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland, UK
2016 Oliva in Painting, Warzywniak Art Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 Waves, PCAO, Summerhall, The Sciennes Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2015 Federation of British Artists - Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 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
2014 Open Your Eyes, Gray's School of Art Degree Show, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
2014 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

2012 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
2024 Artist Talk, ISSP Riga Residency, Bolderaja, Riga, Latvia
2022 (March-April) 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
2020 Artist Talk, 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)
2024 Baroque Singing Masterclass with Dr. Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland), Early Music Week, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania (Scholarship)
2024 Early Music Singing Masterclass, WinterAkademie & Historic Brass Studio, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany (Selected)
2023-2024
Folio 2023/24 Masterclass On Photobook, PhMuseum and Witty Books (Selected)
2023 Storytelling with Photo Embroidery and Mixed Media with Jolanda Drukker Murray, StrudelmediaLive (Scholarship Winner)
2023 Unveil x Futures Photography (Futures Artist)
2023 Online Tutoring with Emese Mucsi, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center Budapest (Winner)
2023 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)
2022 M&C Saatchi Open House
2022 44. Sommerakademie, Early Music Singing Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby, Germany (Selected)




Artist Interviews

2021 Forme Uniche, IT
2021 The Bagel Hole, CA


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
2024 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
2020 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
2024 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
2022 Futures Annual Meeting w/ Organ Vida Zagreb, Fotofestiwal Lodz, Taiyo Onorato&Nico Krebs, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy


Books

2023 Kintsugi, Photobook, Self-Published︎


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/





Interpiktorial, 2024, Kunstraum Arcade, Austria

















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