Martyna Jastrzębska

Martyna Jastrzębska, b. 1987 in Kielce, is a visual artist, doctor of fine arts, and assistant at the Intermedia Department at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She is a graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (diploma 2010) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (master’s diploma in 2013, doctoral diploma in 2018). She is the winner of, among others, the City of Gdańsk Award for Young Artists in the Field of Culture (2019), the international NES Artist Residency Iceland residency programme (2017), the first prize in the fourth edition of the Gdańsk Biennale of Art (2016), and the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk (2016). She is also Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2018) and the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for Cultural Creators (2015). She creates multimedia installations and objects. In her artistic practice, she intertwines the threads of the passing of time, change, rebirth, reinterpretation of the meaning of a trace, and the deconstruction of myths and symbols. As part of her doctoral dissertation, she destroyed several dozen of her own works, the remains of which she had converted into two diamonds.