Halina Marduła
Born in Wrocław, where she currently lives and works. A graduate of the Higher School of Art and Design in Łódź and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Participated in group exhibitions both domestically and internationally, and has also held solo exhibitions. Involved in artistic education and promotion, collaborating with organizations such as the Media Art Gallery KINO and the Author's Laboratory of Photography in Wrocław. She is a member of the Lower Silesian Branch of the Association of Polish Art Photographers.
In photography, interested in the documentary and creative aspects. Primary creative focus is the nature of reality, both subjectively and objectively. Through photography, seeks to describe their mutual influence, the relationship between the inner and outer worlds. Explores themes related to the visible and invisible dimensions of reality, such as time, memory, corporeality, psyche, consciousness, imagination, and artificial intelligence. Sometimes employs means closer to documentation, while other times employs creation, creating an alternative reality of concepts and metaphors.
Education
2022-2023
/ Author's Laboratory of Photography in Wrocław
2010-2012 /
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
2008-2010 /
Higher School of Art and Design in Łódź
2005-2008 / AFA
Higher School of Photography in Wrocław
Solo exhibitions
2025 / Event Horizon, 5th Płock Photography Days, Płock
2023 / We are, ZPAF Photography Gallery, Wrocław
2023 / Event Horizon, 10th Biennial of World Photography FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała
2022 / Twelve noon, Small Photo Gallery KONTRAST, Obornicki Cultural Center
2014 / Photomontages, KINO Gallery, Lower Silesian Film Center, Wrocław
Group exhibitions
Event
Horizon, OD ZPAF, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław / 2025
Space,
Small Photography Gallery KONTRAST, Obornicki Cultural Center /
2025
Time (4), Poleczki ART, Warsaw / 2024
20 Years of the
ZPAF Photography Gallery in Wrocław, Wrocław 2024
Limited
Presence, FOTO-GEN Gallery, Wrocław 2024
Time (3), ZAMEK
Conference Center, Szczecinek 2024
Time (2), OT Rondo Gallery,
Słupsk 2024
Time, ZPAF Photography Gallery, Wrocław 2023
Fear
(3), Center for Creative Activities in Lublin 2023
Fear (2),
KONTRAST Small Photography Gallery, Obornicki Cultural Center
2023
The Not/Perfect Error / 75 Years of ZPAF, Contemporary
Museum, Wrocław 2022
The World is what it is / 75 Years of
ZPAF, Foto-Gen Gallery, Wrocław 2022
Fear, ZPAF Photography
Gallery, Wrocław 2022
Time of Trial, Foto-Gen Gallery, Wrocław
2021
Made in Photo, Zaułek Kaćmy Gallery, Wrocław 2015
3rd
Piotrków Art Biennale, Artistic Activities Center 2015
Current
Affairs, Łódź Photographic Society Gallery, Łódź 2012
5th
International Photography Salon, Municipal Art Gallery, Częstochowa
2011
FOTO FEST Photography Festival, Browar Mieszczański,
Wrocław 2006
Awards and Honorable
mentions
Honorable mention in the International Fine
Art Photography Awards 2024 competition
Honorable mention in the
International MONOVISIONS Photography Awards 2024 competition
Third
prize in the International Annual Photography Awards 2023
competition
Honorable mention in the International Neutral
Density Photography Awards 2023 competition
Second prize in the
17th CYBERFOTO 2014 International Digital Photography
Competition
First prize in the 14th CYBERFOTO 2011 International
Digital Photography Competition
First prize in the 17th ZESTAW
2010 International Photography Competition
Online publications
Art in RWK #51/2023, interview on Radio Wrocław Kultura 2023
Halina Marduła – We Are, Photography Quarterly 2023
Catalogue 75 YEARS OF ZPAF, Lower Silesia District of the Association of Polish Art Photographers 2022
About an elephant on the stairs and the post-apocalypse, interview for Portfolio as an archive 2022
Author's Photography Laboratory in Wrocław 2022
Lower Silesia District of the Association of Polish Art Photographers 2021
Halina Marduła – Photomontages, KINO Gallery, Lower Silesian Film Center 2014
Creative photography in Brussels, Artissimo Art Portal 2013
Cyberfoto 2011, JURECKIFOTO Blog