EDUCATION

bergische university wuppertal, germany
folkwang university of arts essen, germany
jan matejko academy of fine arts cracow, poland
academy of arts düsseldorf, germany


EXHIBITIONS

2020 Groupexhibition, Earlstreet, Darmstadt – cancelled due to C’rona
2020 „Unfinshed Self-Portrait of the Unknown Artist as a Young Man“, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
2019 „Call for Papers“, Galerie Friedrich+Ebert, Wuppertal
2019 ELSE GEHT AUS X – Tribute Exhibition to the 150 Year Anniversary of Else Lasker-Schüler
2019 „Absicht“, Galerie Friedrich+Ebert, Wuppertal
2018 „Relations and Contexts“, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
2018 fine-art-berlin, Advent-Special, Berlin
2018 fine-art-berlin, intimate spaces No 4, Berlin
2018 ARTSIDES 1.0 Utopiastadt, Wuppertal
2018 Unterbarmer Druck-Kunst-Tage, BBK Bergisch Land
2018 Kunst trifft Bildung, TAW Wuppertal + BBK ergisch Land
2017-2018 Print-Calender Exhibition, WOGA
2017 Kunstpreis-Eisenturm exhibition, Mainz
2017 Myths and Fairytales, BBK Bergisch Land
2017 Tradition and Experiment, Art Poster Exhibition, BBK Bergisch Land
2017 Print-Graphics exhibition BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal
2015 Orientexpress, Wuppertal, Solingen, Schwelm
2015 „Transparent Portraits“, KuKuNa, Wuppertal
2014 Diploma exhibition, University Folkwang, Wuppertal
2013 ASP Cracow, End Year exhibition, Poland
2012 ASP Cracow, Erasmus Graphics exhibition, Poland


AWARDS

2017 Mut zur Wut – Winner
2017 Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm – Shortlist


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Martin Rybacki is a Polish-born visual artist living and working in Germany.

He uses both his personal biography and known symbolizm to create work that focuses on meaning and beauty and not on formal recognizability and art for art's sake. He is religious and not "spiritual" or ideological.

The traditional ancient definition of art was simply "craft".
Art was the making of something useful - from architecture to cooking or gardening.
The artisan used his art to make that something in which the members of a community would participate according to the meaning it had for the culture of that community.
That something was speaking a common language the whole community could understand.
Every product of accomplished art gathered people together and aligned them towards a higher common aim.
That way art was purposeful, integrated in a structure of meaning and reinforced that meaning.
The art served the artist and the artist served the community.

Today artistic activity is used for the expression, realisation and fulfillment of the self.
Modern art is void of higher purpose and not integrated. It is a multiplicator of ideosyncratic languages.
It is serving itself.

Either art is a skill by which the artisan makes something purposeful and meaningful for a community with a shared goal.
This is traditional acient art.
This is high art.
Its highest form is art for the church.

Or art is an object that exists solely to be consumed aestetically, intellectually, for decoration, or for monatery speculation.
This is modern art.
This is low art.

Generally there is nothing wrong with both as long as this hierarchy is maintained.

NEWS

Solo
„Unfinished Self-Portrait of the Unknown Artist as a Young Man“
6.3. – 6.5.2020 (prolonged)
The Gallery of Art in Legnica
Legnica, Poland, 2020

Group
„Call for Papers“
7.12.-26.1.2020
Galerie Friedrich+Ebert
Vernissage 7.12.19 – 19h
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 236, 42217 Wuppertal

Group
„ELSE GEHT AUS X“ – Tribute Exhibition to the 150 Year Anniversary of Else Lasker-Schüler
4.8. – 24.8.19
KuKuNa KulturAtelier
Vernissage 4.8.19 – 12h
Hünefeldstraße 54A, 42285 Wuppertal

Solo
„Absicht“
5.7. – 3.8.19
Galerie Friedrich+Ebert
Vernissage 5.7.19 – 19h
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 236, 42217 Wuppertal

Group
„Advent-Special“
8.12. – 9.12.18
fineartberlin
12 – 17h
Torstr. 61, 10119 Berlin

"form follows meaning"