Martyna Czech, Wrong Circle, 2017

oil, acrylic, canvas, 60 x 60 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: MARTYNA CZECH "BŁĘDNE KOŁO" 60X60 CM, oil, acrylic on canvas, 2017/MARTYNA CZECH/"BŁĘDNE 60 X 60 CM/oil&acrylic on canvas, 2017

Martyna Czech was born in 1990 in Tarnow, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, graduating in 2017 in the studio of Andrzej Tobis. Even before her graduation, she was the winner of the 42nd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale in 2015. The jury's verdict divided viewers. Czech's paintings have been stirring emotions and controversy since her acclaimed debut and the artist's uncompromising nature is one of her trademarks. In her expressive, multicolored canvases, Czech reveals her critical attitude toward the human species. The irony, obscenity and turpitude present in her work are among the leading currents in the art of a generation of young artists in Poland and abroad. Martyna Czech, alongside artists such as Aleksandra Waliszewska and Karolina Jablonska, was a pioneer of this aesthetics and attitude. Her compositions are based primarily on color stain with expressive and saturated colors. The protagonists of Chekhov's paintings are people and animals, whose roles and relationships interpenetrate each other, revealing new, hidden faces of species.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2020 - "Evocation," CCA Kronika, Bytom; "Martyna Czech. Awakens Emotions," Clay Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 - "Nothing unites us" with Leszek Knaflewski, BWA Warsaw, Poland
2018 - "Venom 2", BWA Tarnów
2017 - "Venom", Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biala
2016 - "Certain conflicts", Potency, Krakow
Selected group exhibitions:
2021 - "For Johanne and Anna - an exhibition from the art collection of the Bielska Galeria BWA, BWA Bielsko-Biala.
2020 - "I will put my own soul in the magic storm", BWA Warsaw; "We are terrible", BWA Olsztyn; "Milk Me Sugar", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok;
2019 - "Paint Means Blood," MSN Warsaw; "Monkeybear," Rondo Sztuki, Katowice; "Homework," Wykwit, Wroclaw; "Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting," Branch of Modern Art National Museum in Gdansk; GAFU - Borders of Painting 3, Faculty of Art, Ostrava University, Ostrava
2018 - "Children of Light," Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biala
"The great sarmatics of this country / The great sarmatics of this country", BWA Tarnów
"Communication with all that is", Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2017 - "I hate everyone", Arman Galstyan, Warsaw.
8th Triennale of the Young, Center for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko, Poland,
9th Youth Art Biennale "Fish Eye," Center for Creative Activity in Ustka,
"From artificial reality to selfie. Self-portrait in Polish art", BWA Wrocław
2016 - "KREW-WERK," Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2015 - 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała.