05/11/2025
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Meeting with Honorata Martin
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Can everyday life become a territory of art — and can meeting another person be treated as a performance?
- For years, Honorata Martin has been crossing the boundaries between the private, the social, and the physical, creating works that unfold in real time — here and now.
- During Live, she will talk about her artistic practice, including performances such as Walking Across Poland, when she set out on foot from Gdańsk without a plan or destination, and Domestication, during which she lived in a makeshift hut in Warsaw’s Bródno Park. Her work explores the space between courage, vulnerability, and empathy — showing that art can be a form of genuine contact with the world.
- Honorata Martin (born in Gdańsk) works across painting, installation, performance, and video. She is the winner of the “Views” Deutsche Bank Award (2017), nominee for the Polityka Passport Award, and recipient of the City of Gdańsk Splendor Gedanensis Award. She graduated from and currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she leads the 3rd Studio of Intermedia. She is also the co-founder and vice-president of Arbuz Association, as well as an activist and community worker.
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{Live}
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- We host both artists who have previously taken part in Ujazdowski Castle’s programme and those making their debut. In this series, we would like to focus on individual approaches and artistic practices.
- Why take part?
- The events will be recorded for archival purposes, and the recordings will be made available online through the Mediateka.
- In times of tensions and crises, thinking and talking together about contemporary art – which responds to today’s challenges in unconventional ways – helps strengthen social resilience. Art is not only the object – just as important are the process, the thinking, the emotions, and the relationships that accompany it. The meetings offer a closer look at how art is created and, most importantly, who creates it.
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- The meetings are open to everyone, from people working professionally in culture and art, to those who are curious about artists and their work, or simply want to talk about art.
- We do our best to make the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art accessible to everyone – we would like to adapt the event to you and your needs. To help us do that, please contact our accessibility coordinator: dostepnosc@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
