BIOGRAPHY

Marta Węglińska (born in 1990 in Poland, in the Lublin region) – an interdisciplinary artist whose work is based on research into the natural environment. 

Graduate of the Master's program in Intermedia (2016) and the Bachelor's program in Painting (2014) at the University of Arts in Poznań, as well as a one-year course at the Institut Seni Indonesia (Visual Arts) in Yogyakarta (2017). 

Between 2013 and 2017, she co-ran and curated the Silverado Gallery. Founder of the Kobalt Migrating Platform educational and artistic initiative. She works in the field of art and cultural education, mainly in Poland and Indonesia.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice is based on field research and inquiry conducted in direct contact with the natural environment. I work through traveling, long-term observation, and careful experience of the landscape. I treat art as an open, transdisciplinary process rooted in natural space. Nature—understood as a dynamic system of relationships, processes, and forms of life—is the starting point and main area of my research and artistic practice.

I observe the natural environment from many perspectives: biology, geology, ecology, religion, mythology, tradition, philosophy, and culture. I combine the knowledge gained through bibliographic and archival research and work with museum materials with intuitive, physical, and multisensory experience of the terrain. I am interested in how artistic practice can function as a tool for ecological awareness - revealing the interdependencies between humans, landscape, and non-human forms of life.

A significant part of my practice involves field research in protected and environmentally valuable areas (including forest ecosystems, wetlands, mountain and karst landscapes). Selected locations become the subjects of paintings, photographs, drawings, objects, and installations. 

I am fascinated by the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm, the cycle of matter, geomorphological processes, and ancient ways of perceiving the world, in which nature was treated as a causative entity that co-created reality. I am inspired by mythologies, traditions, rituals, and the achievements of ancient civilizations and cultures (especially prehistoric and ancient ones).

My creative practice is situated at the intersection of contemporary art, artistic research, and environmental humanities, drawing on posthumanist and relational ways of thinking about the world. I work in many media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, experimental film, and artist's books, treating art as a space for mindful dialogue with nature and a tool for building alternative environmental narratives.