Marta Czok

Of Polish origins, Marta Czok was born in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1947. The following year, she moved with her family to London, where she completed her academic studies at St Martin’s School of Art, repeatedly participating in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Over the past 35 years, she has exhibited her works in Europe and America, also collaborating with the project “Alitalia per l’Arte.” In 2000, Alitalia commissioned her a triptych, which was later gifted to Pope John Paul II for his eightieth birthday. In the same year, she was invited by the French Embassy to the Holy See to create a work on the theme of the Jubilee, which was exhibited as part of the “Roma Jubilans” exhibition. In 2008, Polish national television dedicated a documentary to her, highlighting the relationship between her work and World War II.

Among her most recent public exhibitions, special mention should be made of the Mother Rome exhibition at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome in 2016; the retrospective exhibition at the Castle of Calatabiano, organized by the MACS Museum of Catania; Icons & Idols, a 2013 multimedia exhibition at MACRO Testaccio in Rome – La Pelanda, created in collaboration with Jacek Ludwig Scarso and Elastic Theatre of London; and her solo exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, held in April and May 2017.

Marta Czok has also worked on traveling exhibitions, such as the solo exhibition dedicated to children in war and the Holocaust, held at Palazzo Ferrajoli (Rome), the Civic Museum of Albano, and Palazzo Antico Ghetto (Padua), and the exhibition About Us, on the theme of humanity, at Palazzo dei Papi (Viterbo), Palazzo Zuckermann (Padua), and Palazzo Zenobio (Venice).