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About me<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Marta Janik is a versatile artist, working primarily in the mediums of analog and digital collage. She is also a skilled illustrator, linoprint maker, animator and workshop facilitator. At times she also incorporates elements of clowning and live performance into her art practice. She has graduated with a Master’s Degree in Literature (Polish Studies) from the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and a qualification in computer graphics from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. She is also a recent graduate of the first edition of the Ecopoetics School at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born in Bydgoszcz, grew up in Cracow, and currently lives and bases her practice in Warsaw. She has also previously lived in Berlin for seven years, where, among other things, she worked as a guide at the Salvador Dali Museum, learned tap-dancing and went roller-skating. She has exhibited throughout Poland, Europe and in the United States, her work has featured in many publications, and she has often been selected by the Kolaj Institute of New Orleans to take part in their projects, exhibitions and programmes. Her works have been featured in many international publications, and she has facilitated workshops in various countries. Some time ago, she created the famous Baba with Fish, which has been roaming the world ever since; and Marta herself is well travelled, she speaks Polish, English and German. She is interested in surrealism, kitsch, the circus, mushrooms and whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitions:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2026: <\/strong>“Come to Me, Here Beside the River”, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, USA
2026:<\/strong> “State of Assembly \u2013 Contemporary collage in Poland”, Pu\u0142awska Art Space, Warsaw, Polska
2026:<\/strong> \u201cDance in Collages” as part of the 23rd International Jazz Dance Open Festival, Pardubice, Czech Republic
2025:<\/strong> “What do cheeky monkeys do?” – a pop up exhibition, Museum of Caricature, Warsaw, Poland
2025:<\/strong> “It has to be fun!” – a collage exhibition, \u015arodek Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2025: <\/strong>“Frankenstein reimagined” – a collage exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, USA
2024:<\/strong> “Ikebana” collage exhibition, Peque\u00f1a Galer\u00eda, Gobernador 6, Madrid, Spain
2023:<\/strong> “Freedom” exhibition during CutOut Collage Festival, Paris-Kyiv, The Gallery Le Bonheur, Rue Amelot 72, Paris, France
2023:<\/strong> “Commuovere (ko’m\u02d0w\u0254vere)” at <\/strong>Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival : Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, Oxmantown Hall, Townparks, Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland
2023:<\/strong> “Dance in collages”, International Jazz Dance Festival, House of Music, Pardubice, Czech Republic
2023:<\/strong> Gedeon-Richter Art Calendar Exhibition, curated by Andrzej P\u0105gowski, Kubicki Arcades, Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2022-2023:<\/strong> \u201eArtists in the Archive: Community\u201d, The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2022:<\/strong> \u201eMigracje\/Migration\u201d, Birr Vintage Week And Arts Festival, Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland
2022:<\/strong> \u201eEmpty Columns are a Place to Dream\u201d, Kolaj Live: Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
2021:<\/strong> \u201eEmpty Columns are a Place to Dream\u201d, Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival \u2013 Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland
2019:<\/strong> Collage exhibition, Chorzowskie Centrum Kultury (the Chorz\u00f3w Culture Center), Poland
2019:<\/strong> Collagistas Festival # 6 \u2013 Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
2019:<\/strong> \u201eJ\u0119zyk kola\u017cu\/Collage Language\u201d, Dom Kultury “Praga”, Warsaw, Poland
2018: <\/strong>KAOS \u2013 International Collage Festival, Kranj, Slovenia
2018:<\/strong> Little Window Galerie, Pankow, Berlin, Germany
2018:<\/strong> Collagistas Festival # 5 \u2013 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2017:<\/strong> Collagistas Festival # 4 \u2013 La Stecca Gallery, Via G. De Castillia 26, 20124, Milan, Italy
2017:<\/strong> \u201eMarvelous\u201d, The International Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California, USA
2016:<\/strong> 1st National Art Contest COLLAGE- ASSEMBLAGE (post-competition exhibition) \u2013 Galeria Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Olkusz, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residencies:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2024: <\/strong>Art Residency at \u00c1ras \u00c9anna Art Centre,  Inis O\u00edrr, Aran Islands, Ireland (October)
2023: <\/strong>Collage & Illustration – Frankenstein \/ The Modern Prometheus: (Online) With the Kolaj Institute, 3718 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2026: <\/strong>Maintenant #20 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2026:<\/strong>\u00a0Magdalena R\u00f3\u017ca Skoczewska \u201eCztery pory esencji. Zbi\u00f3r \u0107wicze\u0144 do pracy w\u0142asnej\u201d, Poligraf Publishing Houes, Wroc\u0142aw (collage on the book’s cover)
2026:<\/strong>\u00a0Francesco Matteo Cataluccio\u00a0\u201eHotel Chopin\u201d, \u00a0Sellerio Publishing House, Palermo, Italy (collage on the book’s cover)
2026:<\/strong>\u00a0Kolaj Magazine, World Collage Day 2026 Special Edition, A Metaphor of Ourselves, (cut out page + artyku\u0142)
2025:<\/strong> Chopin Courier #14, a journal published by the Chopin Institute during the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw, Poland
2025:<\/strong> Kolaj Magazin #42, Collage on the cover + interview, Kasini House, USA
2025: <\/strong>Maintenant #19 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2025:<\/strong> Kolaj Magazine, World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition, The Making of an Icon (cut out page + article)
2024:<\/strong> Przekr\u00f3j Magazine, collage on the cover of the yearbook, no. 1 (3585)\/25
2024:<\/strong> Mary Shelley \u201eFrankenstein\u201d (collective work), Kolaj, Kasini House, USA
2024:<\/strong> Maintenant #18 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2024: <\/strong>Stolica Literatury (Capital of Literature), Magazine of the 17th Warsaw Prize for Literature, Museum of Caricature, Warsaw, Poland
2023:<\/strong> Maintenant #17 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2022:<\/strong> The book \u201eArtists in the Archives\u201d, Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Stewart-Swift Research Center, Ric Kasini Kadour, USA
2022:<\/strong> The book \u201eEmpty columns are a place to dream\u201d, Kolaj and Maison Kasini\/ Kasini House, USA
2022:<\/strong> Kolaj Magazine #34, A magazine about contemporary collage, together with Anthony D. Kelly (the article \u201eMonumental Dreams\u201d about \u201eEmpty Columns Are A Place To Dream\u201d project + collages)
2022: <\/strong>Maintenant #15 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2021:<\/strong> Maintenant #14 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2020:<\/strong> Kolaj Magazine #29, A magazine about contemporary collage, “Collage Language \u2013 Report from Warsaw” (an article + collages)
2019:<\/strong> Jerzy Jarz\u0119bski “Cities, things, spaces”, s\u0142owo\/obraz terytoria – the book features three collages starring Bruno Schulz
2018:<\/strong> Maintenant #11 Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, New York (collage)
2018:<\/strong> Przekr\u00f3j Magazine, summer 2018, numer 7 (3562) (collages), Poland
2018:<\/strong> Przekr\u00f3j Magazine, spring 2018, numer 6 (3561) (collages), Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2021: <\/strong>The National Heritage Council County Award for “Empty Columns are a Place To Dream”, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
2020:<\/strong> “J\u0119zyk kola\u017cu\/Collage Language” project – Warsaw Cultural Education Award 2020, 1st place in the “Cultural Institutions” category, Dom Kultury “Praga”, Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collections:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2022: <\/strong>\u201c<\/em>Artists in the Archive: Community\u201d:<\/em> work acquired as part of a limited edition folio of prints collected by and housed at The Henry Sheldon Museum 1 Park St, Middlebury, Vermont, United States
2022: <\/strong>\u201c<\/em>Artists in the Archive: Community\u201d: work acquired as part of a limited edition folio of prints collected by and housed at The Kolaj Institute, c\/o Kasini House, PO Box 1025, Burlington, Vermont, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2026: <\/strong>\u201cHocus Pocus, Dragonocus!\u201d –\u00a0commercial collage workshop with Maria Filek and Tanja Ulbrich, celebrating World Collage Day, Otwarta.Art, Cracow, Poland
2025: <\/strong>“We are a collage” – preventive workshops at primary school, Nicolaus Copernicus Primary School No. 5 in Wadowice, Poland
2025: <\/strong>“More or less” – commercial collage workshop with Maria Filek, celebrating World Collage Day, \u015arodek Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2024:<\/strong> “Postcards: Mix of Hits” – commercial collage workshop, Warszawa Antique Bookshop, Warsaw, Poland
2024:<\/strong> “We are collage” – Museum of Caricature in Warsaw, as part of the “Master workshops” – educational offer for schools
2023: <\/strong>“We are collage” – collage workshop for “Partners” Support Centre, as part of educational offer of the Museum of Caricature, Warsaw, Poland
2023:<\/strong> “Storm Before Silence” – family workshop inspired by the poetry of Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, as part of the “Women’s Patriotism” project, Jan Twardowski Public Library in the Praga-P\u00f3\u0142noc District, Warsaw, Poland
2023:<\/strong> “Wonderful” – commercial collage workshop with Anthony D. Kelly, celebrating World Collage Day, Z10.Studio, Warsaw, Poland
2023: <\/strong>“Hi hi histories” – Lengren\u00f3wka, Museum of Caricature, Warsaw, Poland, The Long Night Of Museums 2023, World Collage Day
2023:<\/strong> “We are collage” – Museum of Caricature in Warsaw, as part of the “Master workshops” – educational offer for schools
2022:<\/strong> “The farther into the forest, the more gold” – Intergenerational collage workshops in Milan\u00f3wek as part of the “Trees more precious than gold” project, Poland
2022:<\/strong> “Let’s dance” – Intergenerational collage workshops during “New Reality” Collage Festival in Cappoquin, Ireland (together with Una Gildea)
2022:<\/strong> “Migracje\/Migration” – Intergenerational collage workshops during Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, Workshop accompanying the exhibition “Migration\/Migration” (together with Anthony D. Kelly), Ireland
2021:<\/strong> “Coolage” – commercial collage workshop for adults in Zak\u0142adka Antique Bookshop, Warsaw, Poland
2021:<\/strong> “Empty columns are a place to dream” – Intergenerational collage workshops during Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival (Ireland), at the invitation of Arts Council Ireland
2019:<\/strong> “Collage Language” – Intergenerational collage workshops as part of the “J\u0119zyk kola\u017cu\/Collage Language” project (The project was a winner and received the Warsaw Cultural Education Award 2020, 1st place in the “Cultural Institutions” category), Dom Kultury “Praga”, Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curatorial activity:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2022:<\/strong> Curator of the exhibition “Migration\/Migration” presented at the Birr Arts Festival in Birr, Ireland and at the Konopacki Palace in the Praga-P\u00f3\u0142noc district of Warsaw. 13 collage artists from different countries around the world were asked to make a collage on the theme of migration and share their migration experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clients:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Puppet is a Human too”, International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults”, Warsaw, Poland
Slater Design Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
Publishing house “Sellerio editore”, Palermo, Italy
Praska Ferajna, a group of guides in Warsaw, Poland
Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Polish Book Chamber (Polska Izba Ksi\u0105\u017cki)
Foundation “Przekr\u00f3j”, Warsaw, Poland
Antykwariat “Warszawa”, Warsaw, Poland
Music Band Andre, Andrzej Marcysiak
City of Warsaw (Warsaw City Literary Award)
Monika Palikot Fashion
Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant, Disney Springs, Florida, USA
“Partners” Support Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Publishing House Oficyna Zwi\u0105zek Otwarty, Poland
Museum of Caricature, Warsaw, Poland
Mazovian Institute of Culture (Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury), Poland
Faction Collective, Dublin, Ireland
Forbes Street Restaurant in Anantara Marker Hotel, 5* hotel in Dublin, Ireland (chef Gareth Mullins)
Andrzej P\u0105gowski, KreacjaPRO, Warsaw, Poland
Jan Twardowski Public Library (Biblioteka Publiczna im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego), Praga-P\u00f3\u0142noc, Warsaw, Poland
Sony Music Entertainment Poland
Musszelka Foundation in Milan\u00f3wek, Poland
Arts Council Ireland, Birr Vintage & Art Festival, Ireland
Kasini House, Ric Kasini Kadour, Kolaj Magazine, Vermont, USA
Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze Krajobraz (the Krajobraz Sightseeing Society), Warsaw, Poland
Juliusz S\u0142owacki Theatre, Cracow, Poland
Muzeum Miejskie in \u017bory (Municipal Museum in \u017bory), Poland
Dom Kultury \u201cPraga\u201d Community Arts & Cultural Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Laznia Nowa Theater, Cracow, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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