Alesia Martynovich in a black and white frame from Kim jestem
Kim jestem, 2026. Video still.

Biography

Alesia Martynovich (b. 2000, Slutsk, Belarus) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video. Her practice explores routine, identity, and cultural memory, moving between documentary observation and abstraction to transform everyday moments into spaces of reflection.

She studied Architecture at the Belarusian National Technical University in Minsk, graduating in 2023. During this period, her work was shown at the Azgur Museum in Minsk, including a group exhibition in 2022.

In 2023, she relocated to Poland. The experience of migration became central to her video work Dispersion of the National Code, later published by the collective @by_kod on Instagram in 2024.

Since 2025, she has been pursuing a Master of Science in Architecture at Politechnika Krakowska in Kraków (expected graduation in 2027), developing an interdisciplinary approach that connects architectural thinking with contemporary visual art.

In 2025, her work was included in Motherhood, a group exhibition at the Azgur Museum in Minsk.

In April 2026, she presented her solo exhibition Kim jestem?, a spatial audiovisual installation at Scena Supernova in Kraków, shown from 10 to 17 April 2026.

She is currently participating in Contemporary Artistic Practices: From Collage to Actionism, an online educational programme by ART GROUP 1+1, led by artists Mikhail Gulin and Antonina Slabodchykava.

Artist Statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across video, painting, and photography, documenting everyday routines to examine identity, perception, and cultural memory.

My practice focuses on ordinary gestures such as walking, waiting, brushing teeth, and moving through the city. These actions become shifting frameworks through which we experience time and belonging.

I create meditative, often fragmented images that reveal the meanings embedded in the culture of everyday life.

After migration, these gestures evolved into tools of self-reconstruction, showing how society perceives us, how cultural codes are lost or regained, and how what once felt estranged gradually becomes familiar.