Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz deals with the different aspects of decaying materials. Her works refer to photographic observations of urban landfills, self-generated and found images, which she sometimes layers, superimposes, transforms and sometimes leaves as found layers in a documentary manner. Her pictures show what remains – the raw material of new artificial landscapes, unknown skeletons, insect-like structures and urban elements. The artist explores urban remains in digital montages and photograms. Representational elements are combined with loose structures and constructed into ambiguous images. At first glance, one recognises intimately nested spaces and superimposed abstract architectures, but on closer inspection, figurative fragments become visible. Utopian spaces, urban architectures as constructive surfaces emerge in the works of Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz and show a reconstruction of the dilapidated, an interplay between past and future of discarded things and concretely built forms.

Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz (*1977, Gdansk, PL) lives and works in Leipzig. After graduating in art history, she studied photography and completed her studies in 2016 at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) with a master’s degree. Since then, she has been working as a freelancer and is the founder of the participatory performance format ‘When the hum becomes visible’. Her latest book ‘Natural Forms’ was published by Vexer Verlag. She teaches photography in Poland and Germany, most recently at the HGB Leipzig. Her work is exhibited internationally.