about.
Marta Margrét is an Icelandic fine art photographer based in Belgium. Her work explores how form shifts across contexts - between architecture, landscape, and organic matter - where structures persist, dissolve, and reappear in new configurations.
Drawing on her Nordic background, her images are shaped by the stark clarity of Arctic landscapes, while also reflecting the layered spatial and cultural complexity of continental Europe.
Her practice moves across skeletal flowers, architectural forms, and natural environments, using repetition and minimal composition to examine perception as something unstable; shaped by time, memory, and environment.
In a visually saturated world, her work creates spaces of quiet attention, where small shifts in form and context give rise to new associations and meanings.
Her work has received international recognition, including honours from the Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) and the Minimalist Photography Awards, and has been exhibited across Europe and the United States.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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Confluence, M Art Project Space, Photo Brussels Festival, Brussels, Belgium (2025, solo exhibition, selected artist, presented alongside Ragnar Axelsson; co-organizer of Axelsson’s Belgian debut in collaboration with Qerndu Gallery, Iceland)
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People Like Us, M Art Project Space, Brussels, Belgium (2024, solo exhibition, expanded series following Reykjavik debut)
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People Like Us, Hannesarholt Culture House, Reykjavik, Iceland (2023, curated solo exhibition, selected through application process)
Selected Group Exhibitions
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Ode to Joy, Le Bonheur Est Dans l'Instant, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2024, international group exhibition)
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The Art of Form, M Art Project Space, Photo Brussels Festival, Brussels, Belgium (2024, selection process)
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All We Need Is Love, Le Bonheur Est Dans l'Instant, Paris, France (2023, international group exhibition)
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Venice Photolab, Venice Fashion Week, Venice, Italy (2023 & 2022, curated international group exhibitions)
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Frame within Frames, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (2023, curated international group exhibition)
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The Triumph of the Women, Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023, international group exhibition)
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Be Free, Female Artists Oslo, Norway (2022, international group exhibition)
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Art Nordic, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022, selected art fair)
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Awards and Recognitions
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Honourable Mentions, Minimalist Photography Awards (2025, Fine Art, Conceptual & Open category)
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Honourable Mentions, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris (2022, Fine Art & People categories)
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Shortlisted, PX3 State of the World competition (2022)
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Selected + awarded by curators, 1x.com, global curated photography platform (2021–2022)
Publications / Press (Selected)
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[HUNDRED] Best Selected, Vol. 06 (2025). Photographize, international contemporary art publication (published 2026)
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Réponses Photo, Brussels Photo Festival feature (2024)
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L’Echo (Belgian Daily), PhotoBrussels Festival coverage (2024)
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Morgunblaðið (Icelandic Daily) solo exhibition feature, Reykjavik (2023)
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Brussels Art Vue Foundation, Black, White, and Infinite Colors (2023)
