FOR THE RECORD - Marianna Stuhr at Porto.art

Porto.art presents For the Record, a solo exhibition of works by Marianna Stuhr, one of the most distinctive voices of the younger generation of Polish painters. The exhibition will take place from May 6 to 8, 2026, and will unfold as a series of intimate meetings with the artist and the founders of the space, Maja and Sebastian Młodziński.

Remaining true to its format, Porto.art moves away from the conventional opening model and instead invites visitors into a private, domestic setting. Here, art is experienced through proximity, conversation, and time, allowing for a more personal and attentive encounter with the works. As Maja Młodzińska notes, "For us, Porto.art is first of all about encounter - with art, with the artist, with another person. Without distance, through conversation."

Marianna Stuhr's painting practice is centered on memory, experience, and a conscious engagement with color. Her abstract compositions, often structured around deep, saturated blues, create a subtle yet consistent narrative about what remains and what gradually fades.

As the artist explains, "Painting is a way for me to record what is difficult to hold onto - emotions, memories, moments that disappear faster than we are able to name them." For the artist, painting becomes a way of holding onto what is difficult to preserve, including emotions, fleeting moments, and fragments of lived experience. Color operates as both language and tool, with blue functioning as a space suspended between presence and disappearance, silence and intensity. Blue is a space for me - somewhere between presence and disappearance, silence and intensity of experience," she adds.

The works presented in Porto also carry a personal dimension. They reflect on the memory of the artist's father, the renowned Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr, while addressing the inherently fragmented nature of remembering. "It is an attempt to come to terms with the fact that memory is never whole," Stuhr says. The exhibition becomes an attempt to approach the idea that memory is never complete, always shifting and partial.

For the Record continues a project previously presented at the National Museum in Kraków at Krzysztofory Palace, while also marking the artist's growing international presence, including upcoming projects in New York and Washington.

Founded and run by Maja and Sebastian Młodziński, Porto.art is an independent, non-commercial space based on a private collection. Located in Porto, at the Atlantic edge of Europe, the initiative was created out of a desire to share art in a more direct and personal way, building connections between Poland, Portugal, and a wider international context.

Marianna Stuhr's exhibition is the third presentation within the Porto.art program, following exhibitions by Julia Curyło and Bartłomiej Chwilczyński. As Młodzińska reflects, "Each of these exhibitions confirms that an intimate format makes sense - it allows you to truly pause with a painting." Each iteration reinforces the value of an intimate format, one that encourages viewers to slow down and spend time with a painting.

Meetings with the artist will take place from May 6 to 8 between 10:00 and 18:00. Visits are by appointment.