Marta Dyczkowska, born in 1980 in Poland, is a visual artist working in video, photography, installation, and performance, her work is highly intimate yet serves as a social commentary.

Dyczkowska's artistic practice revolves around considering spaces and societal shifts, by utilizing remnants of material culture, architecture, and memory. She often seeks validation in archives and objects.

By embracing principles of empathy and care, she studies evolving dynamics within her personal life and the broader local community through the mediums of storytelling, cinema, and performance.

Marta is an activist, a keen collaborator, and an advocate of socially engaged art.   She previously worked with the Array Collective and the Second Collective. Dyczkowska co-founded Artists Against Genocide and workes alongside Apartheid Free Arts.

Dyczkowska is a member of Vault Artist Studios and is supported by ACNI, she lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 

Marta graduated from Ulster University School of Art & Design in 2018 and was awarded their Artist Residency. She also received the Platform Arts Graduate Residency and the Artist Moving Image NI Graduate Award. 

Her recent work premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and was showcased at the London Short Film Festival and Belfast Film Festival.

 "Never Mind Walnut Street" was recently  screened at the BAFTA Northern Ireland Talent Show in London.

Film

Hearsay at Point Zero, 2025
Never Mind Walnut Street, 2023
Lost Generation, The Squeeze and Poor Helen, 2022

Projects

Bridging The Gap - Scottish Documentary Institute & Northern Ireland Screen, Scotland & Belfast 2022/2023
Making Film History – Archives for Education, Belfast, 2022
Supported by the British Film Institute (BFI), BBC Archive, the Irish Film Institute, Northern Ireland Screen, the London Community Video Archive, and Kingston School of Art.

Exhibitions

Current
State of Belfast : Hearsay at Point Zero at The MAC Belfast from 17th of July to 21st September.
Hearsay at Point Zero is a short documentary exploring life in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter amid urban redevelopment. It focuses on the experiences of marginalized residents, small business owners, and displaced communities affected by the changing landscape.The film uses a 24-hour cycle unfolding over months to reveal the hidden realities often obscured by regeneration efforts, drawing on both the artist's observations and collected testimonies. 
Programmed as part of The State of Belfast exhibition. The State of Belfast uses Grenfell by Steve McQueen as a stepping off point to address the inherent injustices and inequality as well as issues of race and poverty which are inextricably linked to the Grenfell tragedy. The State of Belfast explores how these same conditions exist in Belfast and how we might collectively address them.

Solo
A Tale of Two Houses, Vault Artists Studios, Belfast, 2024
Shut The Front Door, Imagine Belfast Festival, Second Collective, Vault, 2021
A 7th Woman, Platform Arts, Belfast 2019

Group
Is This What We Have Left Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds 2024 Love This Place Cavan
Love This Place Cavan Town Hall, 2024 
Lay of The Land Cavan Town Hall with The Array Collective, Cavan 2022
Mayor's Parlour exhibition Belfast City Hall, Belfast 2021/22
Portrait of Northern Ireland: Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto GTG, Belfast 2021
Open Call Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda 2020
Business as Usual Lisburn 2022
Polish Cultural Week Belfast 2019
Graduates in Residence Show Ulster University, Belfast 2019
Glasshouse V Shankill Library, Belfast 201
Sec2nd Vault Artist Studios, Belfast 2018
Artists in Residence Showcase, British Embassy in China, Peking, 2018
Separate Systems AMINI Graduate Award Showcase at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2018
Degree Show Ulster University, Belfast 2018
Second Belfast 2017
Re: nouveau Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2017
Collective Memories The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast 2016
Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor 2016
Foundation Degree Show BMC, Belfast 2015
Annual Members Show Art Crescent Centre, Belfast 2014

Performance
The Lay of The Land, with The Array Studios, Cavan 2022
BIFPA, Belfast 2022
BIFPA, Ulster University, Belfast 2019
LIVESTOCK, MART, Dublin 2018
View from the Balcony, Ulster University 2018
BIFPA, Ulster University, Belfast 2017


Awards
Artist Moving Image Northern Ireland AMINI, 2018

Residencies
Hyde Park Art Club Residency ,Leeds 2024Ethnic Minority Artist entoring and Residency Programme, Belfast ACNI 23/24
Ethnic Minority Artists Mentoring and Residency Programme, Belfast ACNI 21/22
Vault Artist Studios, Second Collective, Belfast 2021
Ulster University, Belfast 2018/ 2019
Platform Arts, Belfast 2018/ 2019

Publications
Circa Art Magazine  https://circaartmagazine.net/b...

Commissions 
Hearsay at Point Zero The Mac Belfast, Tate, Grenfell Foundation, ACNI, Belfast City Council, Documentary Film
Never Mind Walnut Street SDI &NIS,  Documentary Film
The Lay of The Land Array Studios, Banner 2023
Puncai Dearcán Media for TG4, photography 2017   

Qualifications 
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Ulster University, Belfast 2015/ 2018
First Class Honours

Catalyst Arts Gallery Co-Director, Belfast 2021-2022
Flax Emerging Artist Program 2021- 2022
Vault Artist Studios 2022-ongoing