Marzena has a Diploma in Photography from the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund.
In her personal work she investigates the identity of places, which translate into pictures that oscillate between inner and outer landscapes.
Drawing on her own background as a migrant, she is interested in the notion of home and the relationship between humans and nature.
Lately, her fascination with remote and inaccessible environments has brought her to the North, where she explores the intimate lives and perserverance of people in isolated places.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 - „Cocoon“, Athens Photofestival / Benaki Museum (Athens / Greece) [group exhibition]
2020 - „Heima/t“, Akureyri Art Museum (Akureyri / Iceland) [solo exhibition]
2019 - „The Northern Eye“ - International Photography Festival (Scotland)
2019 - „Heima/t“, Arbaejarsafn Museum Reykjavik (Iceland) [solo exhibition]
2014 - „In Between“, Artconnect (Berlin / Germany)
2013 - „Gletschermusik Festival“, Goethe Institute Kasachstan (Almaty / Kasachstan)
2013 - „the photocopy club“ (Bristol / England)
2011 - „Book Laboratory“, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund (Dortmund / Germany)
2010 - „Book Fair 2010“, Buchmesse Frankfurt (Frankfurt / Germany)
2010 - „Retrospective“, Colliery Scherlebeck (Herne / Germany)
2010 - „Photo Book Festival Kassel,“ DOCUMENTA HALL (Kassel / Germany)
2010 - „Pixelprojekt“, Science Park (Gelsenkirchen / Germany)
2009 - „Time in memoriescut“, Kunstradar (Düsseldorf / Germany) [solo exhibition]
2008 - „Nordstadt“ Expo XXI, ART.FAIR2 (Cologne / Germany)
2008 „LIEBE I“ Photo Gallery Wien (Vienna / Austria)
2007 - „Transitions“, ZPAF ISKA Gallery (Krakow / Poland) [solo exhibition]
2007 - „Polen-Deuschland Gebrauchsanweisung” “ White Box (Munich / Germany)
2006 - „Polen-Deuschland” Goethe Institute Poland (Krakow / Poland)
2006 - „Mach dir ein Bild“ Traffic Club (Warsaw/ Poland)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2019 - Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival
2013 - VG Bildkunst Fellowship
2010 - Finalist „Photo Book Festival“ in Kassel
2008 - Eighth Place „Street Photography“ by 1/AWARD PILSNER URQUELL
2006 - Second Place „Polen-Deutschland Gebrauchsanweisung” (proclaimed by the „Goethe Institute Munich / Adam Mikiewicz Institute Warsaw Patronage: Evaluations Office and the Federal President of Germany and Poland)
2002 - Second Place „Europe“, (proclaimed by the Foreign Office of Germany)
INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES
The British Journal of Photography - PH Museum - National Geographic Traveller U.K - The Telegraph - PDN - Spiegel Online - jetzt-Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin - Anniversary Magazine - feature shoot - Another Escape Magazine - Of the Afternoon Magazine - HUH Magazine - Globetrotter Magazine - POSI+TIVE Magazine - Rucksack Magazine - C41 Magazine - DIE NACHT Magazin - IGNANT - Licorne Magazine - itpost newspaper - Freunde von Freunden - lesothers - thisispaper - the ones we love - waterjournal - Fresh from Poland - Palmstudios U.K - Booooooom - Berlin Travel Festival ...among others