Marianna Serocka is a visual artist and illustrator working with drawing, comics, graphic novels, publications and site-specific projects. Her practice explores memory, identity, storytelling and the relationship between image and place

She is the author of the graphic novel Disco Cry and is available for exhibitions, commissions and publishing collaborations

Selected Clients:

Gdańsk City of Literature, Asfalt Shop, BWA Katowice, BWA Krosno, Centrala Ltd., Stripburger, The House of Literature in Łódź, Popolupo Magazine

Interested in working together?

Feel free to get in touch: marianna.serocka@gmail.com

FLYING BOOBS

Limited edition print series exploring Risograph monochrome printing, hand-bound with exposed embroidery detail. Edition of 70

DISCO CRY

Graphic novel, 240 pages, 130 × 170 mm, full colour. Published in 2016 by Centrala Ltd., London.
Every girl knows this — all these Saturday nights that stretch until dawn and cannot end. Coming back home with a hangover, a broken heart, and a strange guy on top of that. Disco Cry is an account of one of these nights that leave memories you'd rather not have. Marianna wittily uses paper as a means to explore her fondness for ornament. Impatient drawings and wild colours, increasingly intense as the night progresses, reach a climax at the end of the story.
Selected press: TVN24 · Polskie Radio · natemat.pl

OPHELIA

Project: Editorial Illustration An illustrative project created for Gdańsk City of Literature

Concept: A visual commentary on digital overstimulation and the struggle to maintain focus in a modern, notification-heavy environment
Medium: Charcoal on A4 paper
Application: Ideal for editorial, literary, and cultural print media

KUCH LUFTOWY

Graphic novel, published September 2022 by Timof i Cisi Wspólnicy.

Set in Marianna's home region of Kociewie, based on interviews with family, neighbours, and stories from her grandmother. Eight interweaving booklets blending Polish, the Kociewie dialect, and German, drawing on local folklore. Kuch Luftowy: Uniwersum, an expanded edition, is forthcoming in 2026

Performance, Set & Spatial Design

Łąkowo

Łąkowo was a collaborative exhibition inspired by the meadows of the Kociewie region. Developed with students from a Special Educational Centre under the artistic guidance of Marianna Serocka, the project combined visual art, ceramics, and site-specific installations. Through workshops, participants explored local flora, fauna, and biodiversity, creating immersive works that celebrated the relationship between nature, community, and creative expression. The exhibition invited visitors to experience the harmony emerging from the richness and diversity of the natural world

All Eyes on Me

Choreographic performance, BWA Katowice, 2019. Role: lighting and spatial design. Collaborators: Monika Kiwak (text and direction), Aleksandra Kulus (photography).

Recognition

2026 Participant of the 40th International Comic Seminar in Erlangen

2026 Metal, Southend-on-Sea, UK — residency,

2026 Krakauer House, Nuremberg, DE — residency, (first Polish comic artist selected for this Artist-in-Residence programme)

2017 Visegrad Residency Programme, Budapest, HU

2017–2018 Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków (two-time recipient),

2017 Seismograph — Young Polish Artistic Scene

Select Exhibitions

2023 Windows 2023, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk

2023 Bajdy ze wsi (Village Tales), Zamek Cieszyn / Wrocław

2019 All eyes on me, BWA Katowice

2018 Ozimina, Widna Gallery, Kraków

2016 Das ist Wiksa, Henryk Gallery, Kraków

Education

Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, 2009–2014

Aalto University, Helsinki, 2012–2013