Maria Olbrychtowicz

Maria Olbrychtowicz is a Krakow-based intermedia artist whose work focuses on painting and sound art. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with a degree in intermedia in 2016, and currently works as an assistant in the sound studio at the same university.

Her interests focus on the spatial aspect of composing sound structures and acoustics, with a particular focus on architecture as sound sculpture. In 2019, she began her doctoral studies, addressing the relationship between architecture and sound, and an important aspect of her work is the introduction of the term “Site Specific Sound” into academic discourse.

Awards and honors, including: Grand Prix: Young Wolves 2016, Poland’s Culture in the World Scholarship 2015, and City of Krakow Creative Scholarship 2022. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Poland and abroad, such as Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Arteles Review in Finland, Manifesta- European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Switzerland, Survival 14 in Wroclaw, Binary Conflict/ Ars Techne and Young Wolves in Szczecin, and Krakow Widzi Sztuka in Krakow.

She submitted a doctoral thesis entitled “Site-specific Sound”