Martyna Marciniak

Martyna Marciniak is a Polish, Berlin-based artist, researcher, and 3D designer. Her work explores visual storytelling through animation, film, writing, and model-making.

As a researcher, she uses visual storytelling to draw attention to systemic violence and human rights abuses.

Her art practice relies on speculative fictions and allegory to expose technological and visual biases, while bridging the domains of aesthetics, law, politics, and media theory.

She has worked with Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, among other NGOs. Her co-established research group, Border Emergency Collective, investigated and documented stories of migrating people at the Polish-Belarusian border.

She was an artist in residence at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 2018 and at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2024. Her work has been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival, Warsaw Biennale, Kinema ICON in Bucharest, Haus Gropius in Dessau, and deTour Festival in Hong Kong, among others.