About
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
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
Solo
Shut The Front Door, Imagine Belfast Festival, Second Collective, Vault, Belfast 2021
A 7th Woman, Platform Arts, Belfast 2019
Group
Is This What We Have Left, Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds 2024
The 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 2020
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 2024
Ethnic Minority Artist Mentoring 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
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
