PhD in the Humanities. Researcher and lecturer specialising in visual and puppetry theatre, new media art, multimedia practices, exhibition-making, modern and contemporary art, history of stage design and the European avant-garde. An experienced exhibition curator and author of educational projects, actively engaged in both academic research and artistic practice. Develops interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art and technology. Posthumanist and futurologist.
RESEARCH FIELDS
#ExpandedTheatre
#PuppetryTheatre
#Multimedia
#ArtScienceTech
#Exhibitions
#HistoryOfStageDesign
#EuropeanAvantGarde #ContemporaryArts
#ExpandedCinema
#NewMedia
#MediaArcheology
#Posthumanism
#NewHumanities
#VisualStudies
Links
ORCID
Academia.edu
Memberships
Member of the Polish Cultural Studies Association, the Polish Association for Theatre
Research, the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies (PTBFM).
Professional Experience
SWPS University
Human & Machine Interactions
Position: Lecturer
Period: 2025–present [Lectures on New Humanities, Posthumanism, and Cyber-Avant-Garde]
Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw
Theatre Studies Department
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: 2023–present [Visual Theatre, From mechanical theatre to robotic, Sociology of Art, Contemporary Theatre Theory, History of Polish Drama and Theatre in a Global Context]
Postgraduate Studies, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences
Position: Lecturer
Period: 2021–2023, 2025- [Visual Theatre, Multimedia]
Studio of Performance Architecture and Scenography, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Position: External Lecturer
Period: 2016–2022 [History of Stage Design, History of Polish Drama and Theatre, workshops]
CONFERENCES
National/International Research Projects
Fa Fa Fa Future organised by Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Ionian University, Greece (2025–2026).
Artistic and research residency in Tanzania devoted to the relationship between puppetry, ritual and craft. Organiser: HUKWE ZAWOSE FOUNDATION (2026).
Space as Narrative: An Artistic–Research Laboratory Focused on the Ideas and Practices of Frederick Kiesler (holistic exhibition projects of the avant-garde), 2019.
The Architecture of Performance at the Bauhaus: Unrealised Concepts of Avant-Garde Theatrical Spaces and Their Later Continuations (I led the media-focused module), 2018.
Conferences / Title of Presentations
Anti-apartheid resistance and postcolonial visual narratives in William Kentridge’s cine-theatre will be presented at the International Conference Trajectories and Transitions of (Post)Colonialism, which will take a place on 21-22 August 2026, University of Malta, Malta.
The Herds: Migrations of Humans and Animals presented at the international Symposium Posthumanism and Contemporary Artistic Practices, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 7–8, 2026. Organized by: Vilnius Academy of Arts and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Hand as Eye: Touch as a Haptic Strategy in Scene-Exhibition Practices at the symposium PQ Performing Exhibitions, Curating Scenographies, taking place on 13–15 April 2026.
William Kentridge: Analogue Resistance to “Pure” Digitality, presented at the international conference The Analogue and Digital Human: Art (26–27 February 2026), organised by Divadelní fakulta JAMU, Brno, Czech Republic.
Robotic Theatre: Art + Science Encounters (Android Theatre by Oriza Hirata), presented at The Theatre about Science 2025, organised by Teatro Marionet and the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
Haptic Myth? Body, Object, Touch and Postmemory in "The Dead Class" during The National Conference Myth (?) of the Dead Class. Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Premiere of Tadeusz Kantor’s Play 2025. Organisers: University of Łódź, Polish Theatre Research Society.
THEAITRE: when AI generated a play about a robot, and people created an online broadcast performance based on it at 16th National Methodological Conference of Media Studies Scholars (XVI OKMM) 2025. Organisers: Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, Warsaw University.
"The history of theatre is the study of the whole world in miniature.” On the teaching of Professor Zbigniew Raszewski at The National Conference Raszewski / Perspectives 2025. Organisers: Z. Raszewski Theatre Institute, Faculty of Theatre Studies, Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.
A More-than-Human World in Theatre and Performative Practices for Children and Young People, presented at The S.PLOT. International Scientific Conference: Theatre and Performing Arts for Children and Young People: Artistic Practices, Research Perspectives, Social and Cultural Challenges 2025, organised by Pinokio Theatre in Łódź and the Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Human and Animal Migrations – the Puppetry Project "The Herds", presented within the 6th edition of Shadows of the Anthropocene (2025), Warsaw.
William Kentridge’s Cinema of Attractions, presented at the International Conference Culture of Attractions: Past and Present 2025, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Water Puppetry as the Soul of Vietnamese Rice Fields, presented at the National Conference Faces of Water, Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw (2024).
Teresa Murak in the circle of goddesses’ art during International Symposium Lost & Found in Warsaw, 2024.
Homo Hapticus and teaching arts and crafts at The International Symposium Lost & Found in Riga (Latvia). The lost-and-found: revising art stories in search of potential changes (3rd event), 2024.
Cyrk Tarabumba, presented as part of the international conference Polish–Italian Artistic Contacts 1944–1980, Polish Institute in Rome, Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Rome, 2023.
Audiovisual Experiments: The Ideas and Practices of László Moholy-Nagy and Jerzy Krechowicz, presented at the Re_Bauhaus conference, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, 2019.
Painterly Kitchen – Multisensory Practices of Anna Królikiewicz, presented at the National Interdisciplinary Academic Conference (Un)Taste in Cultural Texts of the 19th–21st Centuries. Not Only on the Culture of Eating and Drinking, University of Gdańsk, 2018.
Exhibitions for Children – Good Practices in Exhibitions Presenting Children’s Literature, presented at the conference Children’s Literature and Illustration as a Timeless Carrier of Values, organised by Pedagogical Preschool No. 31 named after Z. Witwicki, Museum of Children’s Books in Warsaw, 2018.
Sensorium and Media – On the Experiments of Jerzy Krechowicz, presented at the conference Communist Dreamers: Reformers, Contesters, Escapists, Spała, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, 2018.
Towards Sphericity: Jerzy Krechowicz’s Experiment Going Beyond the White Cube of the Gallery and the Black Box of the Stage, presented at the scholarly session Vehicle of Space, Polish Stage Design Centre in Katowice, 2015.
The Gallery Theatre in Relation to the Cricot Theatres, presented at the national conference Revelations of Stage Design: Between the 20th and 21st Centuries, December 2013.
Gallery Theatre – An Attempt at Reconstruction, session conducted during the 2nd New Stage Design Festival, 2013.
Theatre on a Barge – The Activities of the Polish Academic Theatre, paper presented at the conference Theme: River, organised by the Impact Foundation in cooperation with the University of Warsaw, October 2010.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Martyna Groth, Water Puppetry as the Soul of Vietnamese Rice Fields, in: Faces of Water, Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw 2026.
Martyna Groth, The Gallery Theatre. The Audiovisual Laboratory of Jerzy Krechowicz, Oficyna Naukowa, Warsaw 2025 (Author’s monograph forthcoming. The book is dedicated to relations between visual, performative and media arts.
Martyna Groth, Interspaces: Areas of Indyvidual Research, in: Intermedia. Small Theatre Monographs, ed. Krzysztof Mrowcewicz, Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art, Warsaw 2025. [written in Polish]
Martyna Groth, Water Puppetry as the Soul of Vietnamese Rice Fields, in: „Przegląd Orientalistyczny” / "Oriental Studies Review", 2025, no. 3–4.
Martyna Groth, “Cyrk Tarabumba” – Italian Inspirations in the Groteska Theatre in Kraków (1945, 1949) in: Contatti artistici polacco-italiani 1944–1980, „The Art of Eastern Europe” (2023) - a monographic issue devoted to theatre and cinema. In addition to Italian-language co-editing, she published the article , revealing previously unexplored connections between Polish puppetry theatre and Italian Futurism. The Polish version was also published in „Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych” / "Journal of Fine Arts", 2024, no. 19.
Martyna Groth, The Painter’s Theatre: A Sketch for a Portrait of Zofia Gutkowska-Nowosielska, an article devoted to the work of a forgotten stage designer associated primarily with the Arlekin Puppet Theatre in Łódź. Published in Polish and English in "Teatr Lalek” / "Puppet Theatre" (2024, no. 4), also available online: Teatr Lalek: Teatr malarki. Szkic do portretu Zofii Gutkowskiej-Nowosielskiej | Martyna Groth
Martyna Groth, Sensorium and Media – On the Experiments of Jerzy Krechowicz at the Gallery Theatre (1961–1968), "Sztuka i Krytyka" / “Art and Criticism”, 2024, no. 9, pp. 57–68.
Contatti artistici polacco-italiani 1944–1980, "Sztuka Europy Wschodniej" / “Art of Eastern Europe”, 2023 (a monographic issue devoted to theatre and cinema). Co-editing, conceptual consultancy.
Martyna Groth, László Moholy-Nagy and Jerzy Krechowicz – Kinetic and Luminescent Actions, in: In the Footsteps of the Avant-Garde, ed. Łukasz Guzek, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk 2023. Link: jerzy-krechowicz-po-sladach-awangardy-red-lukasz-guzek.pdf
Martyna Groth, Integrative Imagination, in: In the Footsteps of the Avant-Garde, ed. Łukasz Guzek, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk 2023.
Martyna Groth, Theatre on the Move – On Land and on Water, "Studia nad Architekturą Nowoczesną" / “Studies in Modern Architecture”, 2022, vol. 10, pp. 15–32.
Martyna Groth, A New World, New Needs: Bauhaus, "Sztuka i Krytyka" / "Art and Criticism”, 2022, no. 7–8, pp. 50–72.
Martyna Groth, Jerzy Krechowicz on the Coastal Montmartre, in: Stanisława Fleszarowa-Muskat and Her Contemporaries, ed. A. Nowaczewski, J. Mosakowski, University of Gdańsk Press, Gdańsk 2021.
Martyna Groth, In the Labyrinth – With Klara among Books, “The Librarian’s Guide”, 2021, no. 6, supplement The World of Children’s Books, 2021, no. 2, p. 3.
RE_BAUHAUS, in: “Art and Documentation” 2020, no. 23, ed. Martyna Groth, Katarzyna Zawistowska, Michał Pszczółkowski, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk 2020. [Co-editing, conceptual consultancy].
Link: RE.bauhaus
Martyna Groth, Director of Illusion, in: 1x1 Jerzy Krechowicz, selection and editing by Jacx Staniszewski, Agata Staniszewska, Jakub Krechowicz, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk 2020. Also in electronic version - link: zbrojowniasztuki.pl/pliki/4de2bd9105fd339da9e187e437abcbd3/jerzy-krechowicz-jacek-staniszewski-1-x-1.pdf
Martyna Groth, Outside the Curriculum: An Area of Individual Explorations, in: Young Polish Scenography. Exhibition of Students’ Work from 2015–2018, ed. A. Koecher-Hensel, graphic design and layout by S. Szondelmajer, English and Czech translations by J. Hensel and V. Adamczyk, Polish Centre of the International Theatre Institute, Warsaw 2019.
Martyna Groth, Art as an Early Warning System, in: "Akademia w Mieście" / “Academy in the City”, 2019, no. 4.
Martyna Groth, Space for Children, Children in Space, in: Art as Encounter, ed. G. Leszczyński and J. Żygowska, Biennale of Art for Children, Poznań 2018.
Ewa Solarz, Pan Nowoczesny. Barwne życie w białej Gdyni (Mr Modern. A Colourful Life in White Gdynia), illustrations and graphic design by Joanna Jopkiewicz and Paweł Ł. Borkowski, edited by Jacek Friedrich and Martyna Groth, Gdynia City Museum, Gdynia 2017. [Awards: Sybilla 2016, Visible Museum Award 2017]
Martyna Groth, A Journey into the Modernist Interior, in: Glass Metal Detail. The Architecture of Gdynia in Detail, ed. Jacek Friedrich, Anna Śliwa, Gdynia 2016.
Martyna Groth, From Bauhaus Experiments to the Gallery Theatre, “Pamiętnik Teatralny” / “Theatre Journal”, 2015, issue 2, pp. 150–163.
Martyna Groth, A Treatise on the Complexity of the World, in: Krech/Jacx, graphic design by Jacek Staniszewski, State Art Gallery, Sopot 2014.
Martyna Groth, The Silence of Drawn Words. In Search of Form, in: Marian Kołodziej. Theatrum Vitae, ed. M. Abramowicz, National Museum in Gdańsk, Gdańsk 2014.
Martyna Groth, Theatre on the Barge. The Possible City (co-authored with Katarzyna Zawistowska), in: World Stage Design 2013, ed. Kate Burnett, Cardiff 2013.
Martyna Groth, Theatre on the Barge: The Possible City, in: Changing the World?, ed. A. Kowalski and A. Kołodziej-Adamczuk, Polish Stage Design Centre, Katowice 2012 (co-authored).
PORTFOLIO IN ART / CULTURE
I invite you to browse my portfolio, presenting selected works/projects/exhibitions from the years 2015–2025. The presentation is in PDF format.
Colour, Sound, Movement. Women at the Bauhaus – online discussion.
A conversation featuring Paulina Olszewska, Martyna Groth and Jenny Brockmann, Goethe-Institute, 2020.
Kolor, dźwięk, ruch. Kobieta w Bauhausie - dyskusja online
Layers of the City – an architectural education programme curated by me, with children participating as co-creators, Institute of Urban Culture, 2018.
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