Marta Dyachenko studied architecture and fine arts with a focus on sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her installations, sculptures, and drawings, she explores the relationship between humans and nature, questioning how our perception of the environment and built space is shaped by political, cultural, and religious developments.
Her work has been presented at institutions including the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2025), Ruhrtriennale – Zeche Zollverein (2024), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2024), Klosterfelde Edition Berlin (2024, solo), Dittrich & Schlechtriem Gallery (2023, solo), New Positions – ART Cologne (2023, solo), and Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (2022, solo). Her works are also permanently installed in public spaces, including Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Lublin, and Mögglingen. In 2024, she was awarded a grant by the Stiftung Kunstfonds, and in 2021 she received the Bernhard Heiliger Fellowship.
During her residency at Villa Kamogawa, the sculptor will focus on architectural structures and constellations in Japan’s urban space that embody responses to social change, destruction, transience, and reconstruction through their formal language. Her emphasis lies on the historically and culturally rooted concept of “transformation” in Japanese architecture and its influence on postwar modernism in Japan.
