Every November, the Kraków Branch of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers awards the Witold Wojtkiewicz Awaed for best exhibition of the last season. This year’s winner is Marta Antoniak The exhibition of her paintings and three-dimensional works Elementary Particles was presented at the Bunkier Sztukit Gallery.
There’s another chance to see works by the author at Pryzmat from 19 November to 14 December – the exhibition Ectoplasm is on dispaly at the Pryzmat Gallery with the award ceremony held on 19 November at 5:30 pm.
Marta Antoniak (b. 1986) is a visual artist, who creates paintings and spatial works. She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk in 2011 and was awarded her PhD in 2017. She works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She has participated in artist residencies, including Garage Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2018) and Jeune Crèation Europeènne, Amarante, Portugal (2010). Marta Antoniak’s works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the collection of the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, the P for Painting contemporary art collection of mBank, the PKO BP Art Collection, the collection of the National Museum in Lublin, the collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk, the art collection of the Bielska BWA Gallery and the art collection of the Chancellery of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
