Investigating linguistic structures, Marlena Kudlicka  focuses on the mechanics of spatial and semantic relations that concern the system of protocols and communication, the language and the space. Her carefully elaborated, laborious and oftentimes poetic sculptural and relief-like constructions that usually employ such materials as steel, glass and powder coating, reflect the thought processes behind the patterns, systems, equations and formulas. “I am interested in the question: what tolerance of precision is allowed to transform thought into a physical shape?”, the artist says. She explores the intrinsic relationship between error and its derivatives (uncertainty, doubt…), determines how present they are in the sculpture that is to be made and creates what she calls “recipes”. These recipes work as an index of what the sculpture is – much more than its mere shape, it is the result of a causality of all the ingredients that it entails. All the knowledge, the doubt, the hesitation, the precision and the errors that are involved in the process of creating a work (% of guilty numbers, % of doubt, % of tender arguments, % of error % of risky calculations..).

Marlena Kudlicka received a M.A. in painting and drawing at the Department of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture Academy of Fine Art Poznan, Poland (1993-98). Her work has been exhibited in various international venues such as Kestner Gesellschaft, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Zacheta National Gallery Warsaw, Museum of Art Lodz, MACBA Buenos Aires, Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional in Lisbon, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, CGAC Santiago de Compostela, among others.

Kudlicka’s sculptures are placed in a few public permanent commissions (amongst them, 2019 0 comma A permanent sculptural work 1st Prize KUNST AM BAU, BTU Cottbus Senftenberg Neubau Fluiddynamik awarded by the state of Brandenburg; and in same year 2019 velvet mind marble thoughts outdoor sculpture for Centre of Polish Sculpture (CRP) in Oronsko, Poland.

Kudlicka’s work is included in numerous museum collections, such as CGAC Santiago de Compostela Spain, ARCO Collection Spain, Museum of Art Lodz Poland, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum Poland, Kestner Gesellschaft and in many private collections, including Barbara and Aaron Levine, Washington DC.

Marlena completed residences at 2016 Residencia Al Lado; 2014 Cite Internationale des Arts Paris. Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department; 2008/2009 Swing Space LMCC New York; 2007/2008 International Studio & Curatorial Program New York; 2004/2005 International Residency Program Location One New York; Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart; 2003 Art Omi International Arts Center New York.

Her work has been regularly on view at international art fairs as The Armory Show New York, Art Basel Miami, ARCO Madrid, Untitled Miami, Artissima, arteBA, viennacontemporary, Art Lima, ChAco Chile,  Chart Copenhagen, abc art berlin contemporary, Art Brussels.