Angelika Markul

Born in 1983 in Szczecin, Poland. Lives and works in Malakoff, France.

In her artistic practice, Angelika Markul works with themes such as memory, time, creation and destruction, mixing science and fiction to construct myths that speak to fundamental questions. A graduate of Fine Arts in Paris, she worked for years in the multimedia studio of Christian Boltanski.

Markul is known for her large-scale installations, ranging from sculpture to video. The artist has filmed melting glaciers in Patagonia; the Australian region of Broome, following dinosaur tracks; the Japanese island of Yonaguni, exploring a monument of unknown origin submerged under the sea; or Chernobyl, capturing the resurgence of nature among the ruins. Her process is motivated by the desire to capture images, but also to sculpt them, thus making the obscure and hidden visible.

She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires; and Centro Internacional de Arte y Paisaje, Vassivière. She participated in MoMA’s online exhibition “From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures” (2020), with her film “Bambi at Chernobyl” and has taken part in group shows at museums around the world, such as the National Museum of Art, Beijing; Monnaie de Paris; Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Jewish Museum, New York, among others.

She has been recognised with prestigious awards such as the SAM Prize for contemporary arts y COAL Prize.