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HONORATA MARTIN

was born in Gdańsk. There, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, having defended her MA thesis at the Faculty of Painting under Professor Mieczysław Olszewski and intermedia annex under Professor Wojciech Zamiara. Her PhD dissertation completed at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia was supervised by Professor Bogna Burska. Martin creates paintings, installations, performances, and videos. Her activities normally take place in real time. Martin’s art often involves pushing the limits of her body. In her Social sculptures, she points to what brings people together rather than divides them. Martin is the winner of the Views Deutsche Bank Foundation Award (2017), the Splendor Gedanensis Award for outstanding achievements in art, and of the Polacy z Werwą” (“Poles with verve”) vote in the category of fine arts. She was nominated for the Polityka’s Passport Award and received the art scholarship granted by the Minister of Culture and the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.