Marek Wolfryd is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates the intersection of artistic and economic narratives in the context of culture, history, and society. Through a wide range of media—including sculpture, installation, video, and readymades—his practice explores cultural movements and their aesthetic discourses, often delving into micro-historical phenomena.
Through long-term research projects, Wolfryd builds a conceptual framework that exposes the complexity of global narratives operating both within and outside the spheres of symbolic influence of the Western world. His works reflect and explore the means of mass production, consumer culture, copyright, and the mechanisms of art creation and distribution. Employing a methodology he terms "manufacturism"—which involves the strategic outsourcing of production to a network of overseas and local suppliers—his practice materializes the very global supply chains it critiques. This approach results in artworks that examine contemporary manifestations of historical trade dynamics, making visible the entangled relationships between origin and copy, and production and consumption, in the late capitalist age.
Marek Wolfryd graduated from the E.N.P.E.G. “La Esmeralda” and the 2020 generation of the ISP of SOMA. His work has been individually presented in spaces like the Museo Universitario del Chopo, General Expenses gallery, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Chalton Gallery (now Somers) in London and Tiro al Blanco gallery in Guadalajara. He has been part of group exhibitions in institutions such as the National Numismatic Museum, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Alameda Art Laboratory, La Tallera, the Siqueiros Public Art Room, the Museum of the City of Querétaro, La Casa del Lago and the Museum of Arte Carrillo Gil, as well as in galleries and project spaces such as Karen Huber gallery, Salón Silicón, Salón COSA, Lodos, LLANO, Guadalajara 90210, Maleza Proyectos in Bogotá, Aoyama Meguro in Tokyo, Anonymus Gallery and Swivel Gallery in New York, John Doe Gallery and Human Resources in Los Angeles and CCA Espai in Mallorca.