Martyna Ścibor

Born in 1985, she comes from Wąwolnica, a village near Lublin, an important place in her life so far. In the years 2007-2012 she studied at the Faculty of Media Art and Stage Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, receiving her diploma with honours in the Tarasewicz Studio of Painting Space, annexe in Prof. Bałka’s Studio of Space Activity (2012). She won the Grand Prix and EXIT 22 Award at the All-Polish Review of Young Painting in Legnica (2012), third prize in the Warsaw Graphic Competition (July 2012) and reached the finals of the Siemens Artistic Award (2012). She has participated in several collective and thematic exhibitions, including Higiena ASP in Warsaw (2011) and “Where Is Painting?”, aTAK Gallery in Warsaw (2012). She deals in painting, graphic art and spatial installations. 

Every step Magdalena Ścibor takes, every new painting sign she leaves is well-considered and experienced. Her pictures and installations contain inquisitive, interesting commentaries about our reality. The artist’s main theme revolves around the rituals of everyday life, people and their concerns. The childhood and adolescent years spent in Wąwolnica near Lublin, a village known for its folk traditions, wisdom and spirituality, made her accustomed to patience and self-discipline in difficult moments of life. The surrounding world horrifies her with its injustice, chaos and discord. She is irked by people harming other people, who often accept their fate without a word of protest. So she has turned her multilayered art into a tool of fight for freedom, dignity, independence. Her way to describe humans, their lives, experiences, emotions and needs is manifested in metaphorical images of everyday struggle, repetitive ordinariness. She talks about threats, despair, moments of sadness. She has worked out her own, original artistic language deriving from the tradition of handiwork and folk weaving. She has successfully turned her reflections on valuable existence into a system of visual symbols, forms and shapes. She has created a convincing vision of a resourceful, trustworthy world functioning without unnecessary dependencies or commitments yet full of unrest and turmoil. She is generally optimistic but no stranger to pessimism too. Martyna Ścibor is a distinct, fully-fledged artistic personality.      

Jerzy Brukwicki

 

Martyna Ścibior

Born in 1985, she comes from Wąwolnica, a village near Lublin, an important place in her life so far. In the years 2007-2012 she studied at the Faculty of Media Art and Stage Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, receiving her diploma with honours in the Tarasewicz Studio of Painting Space, annexe in Prof. Bałka’s Studio of Space Activity (2012). She won the Grand Prix and EXIT 22 Award at the All-Polish Review of Young Painting in Legnica (2012), Third Prize in the Warsaw Graphic Competition (July 2012) and reached the finals of the Siemens Artistic Award (2012). She has participated in several collective and thematic exhibitions, including Higiena ASP in Warsaw (2011) and Where Is Painting?, aTAK Gallery in Warsaw (2012). 

She deals in painting, graphic art and spatial installations.