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    Marta Skoczeń (born in 1994 in Łódź, Poland) is a photographer and a visual artist working with video, photography and drawing. She graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020 (Clément Cogitore studio) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2019 (Graphic Art). In her work, she mainly focuses on femininity, memory, and the meeting of past and present, navigating between the field of visual art, cinema and fashion.

    How to materialize in images the phenomena of expectation, isolation, presence, and its corollary absence? Through the joint practices of video and photography, Marta Skoczeń tries to answer these questions by poetically drawing the stories of women enclosed between four walls.

    I wanted to show this need for movement which pushes us out of the reassuring dimension represented by our interiors throughout contact with nature. It makes me think of the paintings of 19th-century female artists where female subjects are represented in enclosed spaces, in all types of activities, such as sewing. These spaces were naturally assigned to women during this period. It is this image of the woman locked inside which I wish to symbolically liberate.

    Psychological portraits in which gazes are alternately pressing, elusive, disillusioned, weary and with great intensity: for this, the artist favors the analog, a medium that she has loved since her adolescence for its softness and its sensitivity to light. There is this natural and evanescent finish that I try to convey in my photographs. When I work digitally, I deliberately break outlines that are far too sharp and perfect by nature. What I like is the delicacy in the treatment of colors specific to analog, she confides.

    Through her videos, Marta Skoczeń has been exploring the theme of isolation, reinforced by the consequences of the pandemic. An intuitive work that mixes past-present, preparatory drawings, unconscious messages that dictate images to her in continuous research, but also texts that she writes and integrates into the editing. Inspired by the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron or Francesca Woodman, Marta reconstructs memories modified by the passage of time by giving a voice to all women.

    Pauline Weber, Catalogue des diplômés, Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2021



  • Education
  • 2016–2020 – École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Clément Cogitore and Patrick Tosani studios (video and photography)
  • 2016 – Erasmus, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Printmaking
  • 2013–2019 – Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Graphic Art


  • Continuous education
  • 2021 – Fotografika, photography course


  • solo shows
  • 2020 – Abri, Master's Degree, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Clément Cogitore studio, Paris
  • 2019 – Czas zatrzymany, Master's Degree, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Piotr Smolnicki studio, Warsaw
  • 2018 – Présence, Bachelor's Degree, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Patrick Tosani studio, Paris
  • 2017 – inny czas, curator: Maciej Miller, Expositorium Art Gallery, Warsaw
  • 2016 – Past Tense, curator: Miłosz Bojnarowicz, Onesto, Warsaw


  • group & two person shows
  • 2022 (upcoming) – Terra Mater, curator: Marilou Thirache, Sid Lee, Paris
  • 2021 – la Biennale de la jeune création contemporaine "Mulhouse 021", Motoco, Mulhouse
  • 2020 (postponed) – Entre toi et moi, curator: Collectif 404, Fondation Ricard, Paris
  • 2020 – ONAGAININZEBISTOUFLYEU, curator: Art Mercator, 44 rue Volta, Paris
  • 2019 – Bâton de sourcier, curator: OFF.ON.FOCUS, Floréal Belleville, Paris
  • 2019 – Bruit Noir, curator: Clément Cogitore, La Villa des Arts, Paris
  • 2019 – atelier Lvovsky, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2019 – Ukryte historie, with Urszula Łozińska, curator: Katarzyna Rysiak, Pracownia Duży Pokój, Warsaw
  • 2018 – Au Fil..., Patrick Tosani studio, Beaux-Arts de Paris
  • 2018 – Wschody, with Tomasz Hryciuk, Przestrzeń Mir’ów, Warsaw
  • 2017 – Punkty wyjścia, with Aleksandra Przybysz, MYKO, Warsaw
  • 2017 – Objets et Préjugées, curator: KulturElles, Médiathèque Edmond Rostand, Paris
  • 2017 – Series of Dreams, curator: Patrick Faigenbaum, Pataut&Faigenbaum studio, Beaux-Arts de Paris


  • film festivals & projections
  • 2021 – VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles
  • 2021 – Forest Zoom, Machnacz
  • 2021 – New Dreams International Film Festival, Los Angeles
  • 2021 – UNKNOWN FILM FESTIVAL, Ekaterinburg (semi-finalist)
  • 2021 – Berlin Revolution Film Festival, Berlin
  • 2020 – Festival Fotogenia, Mexico
  • 2020 – Proxy Act Festival, Berlin
  • 2019 – Holywood Serbia International Film Festival, Boljkovci
  • 2019 – Yale Student Festival, New Haven
  • 2019 – Short Movie Club Festival, Minsk


  • Prizes
  • 2021 – Ogólnopolski Konkurs Fotograficzny Portret, distinction, Poland


  • publications
  • 2021 – Revue 02, France
  • 2021 – Diagram, international
  • 2021 – Artenders, France
  • 2021 – Catalogue des diplômés, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
  • 2021 – Rundgang, Germany
  • 2020 – Wizje, Poland
  • 2020 – Helikopter, Poland
  • 2017 – Polskie Radio Czwórka, Poland
  • 2017 – Magazyn Artystyczny Spektrum, Poland
  • 2017 – Whattaroll Magazine, international


  • talks
  • 2022 – Anthropocene and the Mission of Transformation, symposium organized by Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, PAN Paris
  • 2021 – Samowyzwalacz Inspiracji, Poczytalnia, Legionowo, Poland


  • teaching experience
  • 2018–now – Photography, Superprof, Paris


  • clients
  • 2022 – Aspen, Warsaw
  • 2022 – She Is Sunday, Warsaw/Sicily
  • 2020–2022 – Meleniewska, Paris
  • 2022 – Zuza Kot, Warsaw
  • 2021 – Balenciaga, Paris
  • 2021 – Best Secret, Warsaw
  • 2021 – Balagan, Warsaw


  • collaborations
  • 2021 – Céline Shen, Paris
  • 2021 – Aleksandra Jendryka, Warsaw
  • 2021 – High Numbers, Warsaw
  • 2020 – Kai Kotto, Warsaw


  • internships
  • 2019 – Providences, production assistant, Paris
  • 2019 – Petite Maison Production, assistant director, Paris
  • 2017 – Warsaw Documentary and Feature Film studios, assistant director, Warsaw


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