Marek Wolfryd's practice examines the intersection of culture and economy, investigating how global trade systems, financial networks, and shifting geopolitical power structures produce distinct aesthetic languages and spatial experiences. Working across two-dimensional works, sculpture, installation, and site-specific intervention, his projects make visible the cultural dimensions of economic life—specifically, aspects of globalized production and consumption that shape daily experience yet often escape conscious recognition.
In this context of globalized systems, as Western economic dominance fragments and new centers of influence emerge, Wolfryd's work traces the aesthetic undercurrents of this transition. His projects often take form as appropriated imagery rendered as two-dimensional works, installations using industrial materials that embody their own production histories, and conceptual strategies that reveal hierarchies in contemporary culture.
His research projects examine, from a consumer-as-artist perspective, how economic nationalism, manufacturing systems, hyperconnectivity, and unstable financial infrastructure generate specific visual vocabularies within the 21st century. His practice reveals the entangled relationships between production and consumption, origin and copy, authenticity and reproduction, in an era of reconfiguring global power.
Marek Wolfryd graduated from E.N.P.E.G. "La Esmeralda" and SOMA's Independent Studies Program (2020). His work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Colombia, Japan, and the United Kingdom, including solo presentations at Museo Universitario del Chopo, General Expenses, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, and Swivel Gallery (New York), and group exhibitions at institutions such as Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Casa del Lago, La Tallera, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, and the Siqueiros Public Art Room. His work is held in collections including Colección Jumex, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Fundación M / Colección Moisés Cosío Espinoza, and Pardon Collection.