martina beka




2025
re
hold
sore
what if
i forget

2024
can i still
recline
puncture
hide

2023
floence

2022
paintings




information

Contact details

 Phone (AUS): +61 402 533 734
Email: martinabeka@outlook.com
Instagram: @martinabeka_  


About

 Martina Beka is an emerging artist based in Tarndanya, South Australia. Her multidisciplinary practice prioritises sculpture, installation and photography. She works with discarded objects and spaces to investigate the intersection between materiality, site and the self. Beka relies on collecting and documenting found materials with traces of human interaction embedded throughout them. Her practice considers the palimpsestic qualities held in new and found materials, that she presents in unconventional spaces. 


Education / Training

2020-
2023         Bachelor of Contemporary Art, University of South Australia 
 


Residencies

 2024-
2025         9-month residency at Fab Workshop and Studios, in partnership with the Adelaide Fringe


Awards / 
Grants

2024         Carclew Project and Development Grant Recipient  
2023         Photography Awards for Excellence: Atkins Prize 
2022         University of South Australia, Chancellor’s Letters of Commendation        
2021          University of South Australia, University Merit Award  




Exhibitions / Projects

2025          In Collaboration With, Group show, every*where, Adelaide Design Week, Jackson Square, Adelaide, SA
2025          soft, Group show, every*where, Adelaide Design Week, Mini Mansion, Adelaide, SA
2025         Short Notice (#3), Group show, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2025         sore, Leather installation, Second Life Market, The Market Shed, Adelaide, SA
2025         sore-tooth, Group show, Fab Workshop and Studios, Adelaide, SA
2025         what if i forget, Solo show, Adelaide Arcade Basement, Adelaide, SA
2024         GLEAM, Group show, Household, Adelaide, SA
2024         Short Notice (#2), Group show, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2024         Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2024, Group show, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, SA 
2024         SKIN, Group show, Adelaide Arcade, Adelaide, SA
2023         Coalesce, Contemporary Art Graduate Exhibition, Group show, University of South Australia, Adelaide,
                   SA



Recent Articles / Publications

 2025         Architecture, Au, Adelaide Design Week in review     
2025         Adelaide Fringe, what if i forget, Visual Art and Design category
2025         INDAILY / CityMag, what if i forget Exhibition, What’s On



I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. I offer my respect to Elders—past, present and emerging—and honour their deep connection to this land. 
I acknowledge that the lands and waters I live and work on are of ongoing significance to the Kaurna people. Their sovereignty was never ceded—this land has always been and always will be Aboriginal land.