Małgorzata Markiewicz (b. 1979), lives and works in Krakow, Poland. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in 2015 she obtained a doctoral degree there. In 2014 she participated in the PhD students seminar at KTH, Stockholm and in 2013 she completed a postgraduate course, Organizing Discourse, at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden.
The artistic practice of Małgorzata Markiewicz examines the complexity of contemporary gender dynamics in the context of the home environment and broadly understood society. She uses fabric as a medium in her works investigating the symbolism and significance of the message of clothing. In her work there is an implied feminist critique of intimations of the body, domesticity, fashion, and craft. In 2012 she was commissioned a public sculpture, a tribute to Witold Gombrowicz, a celebrated writer and playwright, as part of ArtBoom Festival in Kraków.
Her works were presented, among others, at Zachęta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), MAXXI (Rome), The Photographers Gallery (London), Sculpture Park in Bródno – MSN (Warsaw), Central Museum of Textiles (Łódź), Matadero arts centre (Madrid); Berardo Museum (Lisbon), MOCAK (Kraków), Łaźnia (Gdańsk), The Cable Factory (Helsinki), SPACES (Cleveland, OH).
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Essay, Medusa, Basia Śliwińska, 2021
Essay, Flowers instead of an apple, Magdalena Ujma
Essay, Sometimes I feel that I fall apart, crumble into the pieces, James Yood
Interview, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódz 2020
‘Contemporary Lynx’, April 2017
Review, Bialystok Online, April 2015
16th Triennial of Tapestry, Łódź, Poland, 2019
Nature in Art, MOCAK, Kraków, Poland, 2018
Decydentki, The Nuremberg House in Kraków, Poland, 2018
Gastronomki, Dom Norymberski, Krakow , 2017
L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy , 2016
I Am Very Glad That You Could Make It, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK , 2016
Who makes Europe?, Matadero, Madrid, Spain , 2013
Hotel de Inmigrantes, Cosmopolitan Stranger, Hasselt, Belgium , 2012
Małgorzata Markiewicz, Artist in Residence, St.A.I.R.S programme, Gratz (AU), until 31 August 2021
Małgorzata Markiewicz, 16th Triennial of Textile, Łódź, Poland, 5 October – 15 March 2020
Małgorzata Markiewicz, Book Raider, Shefter Gallery, 28th April – 2nd June 2019
Małgorzata Markiewicz, Nature in Art, MOCAK, Kraków, 26th April – 29th September 2019
Małgorzata Markiewicz, Prêt-à-porter, Lokal_30, Warsaw, 21 September – 21 December 2018
Małgorzata Markiewicz, The Cookbook with Home Metaphors
Stitching and unstitching, Markiewicz / Rajkowska, 2017
I am very glad that you could make it / Performance / Photographers’ Gallery / London
Małgorzata Markiewicz part of group show, ‘Widmo’ (Phantom) at BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland