Born 1979
Lives and works in Krakow, Poland
Traditional ‘feminine’ craft techniques of sewing, crocheting, embroidery, with used and found clothing, yarn, wool, and fabric have been Małgorzata Markiewicz’s main media. Recently, she has also started experimenting with ceramics, neon signs and metal sculptures.
The role and identity of women in social and domestic environments, gender roles and associated conflicts, the significance of home and power struggles in domestic settings are the predominant motifs that Markiewicz addresses through her art.
She is a graduate of the sculpture department of the Fine Arts Academy in Kraków. She has recently been awarded a PhD there which focusses on the ideas of home and gender roles within the domestic environment.
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Essay, Flowers instead of an apple, Magdalena Ujma
Essay, Sometimes I feel that I fall apart, crumble into the pieces, James Yood
Essay, Smuggled whisper, Anna Maria Potocka
Interview, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódz 2020
‘Contemporary Lynx’, April 2017
Review, Bialystok Online, April 2015
Conversation, ‘C-print’, December 2104
Review, ‘C-print’, October 2013
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, 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