Through painting and sculpture, I’m exploring certain ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the world, the self and human existence. I’m in search of something crude. Basic human emotions. Attraction and repulsion; the need to approach and withdraw; curiosity and sin. What does it mean to have agency and self-determination while being constrained by one’s own physicality and preconceptions? Striving for liberation while never truly letting go.
Martyna Lebryk is a Berlin-based visual artist whose work explores identity, agency, and longing. She graduated from an MFA programme in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in the Contemporary British Painting Exhibition in Huddersfield and at Unit 1 | Workshop in London, and is held in public and private collections, including the Irish State Art Collection (OPW).
Working across painting and sculpture, Lebryk examines the tensions between self-determination and constraint. Her practice is driven by an interest in fundamental human impulses—attraction and repulsion, closeness and withdrawal, curiosity and transgression.