Marta Marsicka
she/they

I am a curator, researcher and an art historian based in the Midlands. My curatorial interests are East-Central European identities and representation, migration and xenoracism, institutional critique, equity in UK-based art institutions. Read more about my work here.


Selected Projects:

1. 07.03 - 11.04.24 - Curator - WRACK LINE, High Holborn, LCF UAL, London

2. 04 - 06.25 (upcoming) - Co-curator - The Future of Curatorship, Paul Mellon Centre

3. 12.2023 - Co-Curator - Spoken Worlds, British Art Network

4. 02-06.2023 - Guest Curator - On Resilience, Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield

5. 04.2023 - Curator - Becoming a body of water, David Kovats Gallery, London

6. 09-12.2022 - Curator - Food Resilience, Polish Migrants Organise for Change, London

7. 02-05.2022 - Producer - OUTCOME, BACKLIT, Nottingham

8. 06.2021- Co-Curator - Piotr Krzymowski: Major Incident, Project THIRTEEN, London

Selected Conferences and Public Speaking

1. 04. 2025:
Shaping the Future: People, Place and Practice - Panel Chair, UK New Artists, Nottingham

2. 04. 2025: 
Between Stereotype and Subversion – Folk in the Practices of Contemporary Polish Artists in the UK - Panellist, Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of York

3. 12. 2024:
Curatorial Imaginings - Panellist, British Art Network, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK

4. 06.2024:
Genius from the Periphery: Revisiting Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle
of Thread and Rope
Exhibition at Tate Modern, Panellist, Agents of Change: Process, Transformation, and
Decentring Art’s Histories, Summer Symposium 2024, Association for Art History, Liverpool John
Moores University, UK


Selected Writing:


1. 04. 2025: Ill female body in practice - Notations by Malgorzata Dawidek, JAWS Journal

2. 10.2024: GEM Artist Residency - Janhavi Sharma, BACKLIT

3. 08.2023:

Exotic Cosmopolitanism: Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern, Art Margins


4. 05. 2022: The Porosity of British Art, British Art Network

5. 01.2022: For some, home is somewhere in between, British Art UnCanon


Selected Awards, Grants and Bursaries:

1. Paul Mellon Centre Seminar Support Grant 2024

2. ECG Legacy Fund 2023

3. 10.2023-10.2029: Techne 

AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership for PhD: Representation of East-Central European women artists in the history of exhibitions in England after 1989.


4. 06.2022: Art Trade Training and Bursary, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

5.12.2021-12.2022: Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England

6.10.2020-11.2021: Emerging Curators Group Bursary, TATE, British Art Network and Paul Mellon Centre  


︎ m.marsicka@gmail.com
Mark