Małgorzata Markiewicz
area: Visual Art
Key Facts
nationality
Polandarea
Visual Artresidence
Krakowrecommending institution
MQ Wientime period
January 2025 - February 2025Małgorzata Markiewicz, lives and works in Krakow, Poland. Studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, Honors and Doctoral Degree in Sculpture. She is a visual artist who works in the fields of textile art, intangible cultural heritage, performance, feminism, sustainability, and justice. Her performances and objects; they are anti-patriarchal statements that explore relationships, care, and interconnectedness – contrary to the widely practiced narcissistic and exploitative-extractive world relationship.
The artist was a participant of PHD students Seminar Philosophies at KTH, Critical Design Studio, and student at Konstfack at Stockholm, Sweden. Markiewicz presented her works at: The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK, l’étrangère, London, UK, Matahre Art Gallery, Nairobi Kenya, Park Rzeźby na Bródnie, MSN, Warsaw, Poland, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK, MAXXI Rome, Italy, Matadero, Madrid, Spain, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Poland. She is the author of the "Curtain of Women" at Słowacki Theatre in Krakow, participatory critically productive heritage project.
During her residency at MQ, Małgorzata Markiewicz will be working on the second “net” of the „Pimoa Chthulu" series. The title „Pimoa Chthulu" is the name of the leading fictional spider figure in Donna J. Haraway’s philosophy, a modified version of the taxonomic name of the actually existing Pimoa cthulhu spider living in California. In Haraway’s modified second part "chthulu" is derived from the word "chthonic", meaning coming from the subterranean world powering all that lives. Is the name for “elsewhere” and “another time”. „Pimoa Chthulu" includes the entire underworld that gives life, nourishes fungi, plants, animals and humans and is built on the principle of networks and connections. Everything is connected to something, and this is connected to something else. And death and life take place within these connections. „Pimoa Chthulu" is a spider's web. Markiewicz is going to crochet the performative object with eight arms, eight legs, each cocoon-like, made out of the black sheep yarn. It is almost impossible to animate this web in any other way than wearing it and crawling. The crawl is accompanied by the trance music of musician Patryk Zakrocki and will be performed in March 2025 at the Neues Museum Nuremberg.
In the project, the artist is interested in imaginary interpersonal networks that arise in the tension between the gestures of two, three or many people. She wants to create new ecologies of coexistence.