Angelika Markul’s works are most often prepared for particular spaces, combining elements of architecture, visual art and theatre. Although she uses various media, her work is minimal, sometimes to such an extent that it is virtually invisible at first glance. Worked out to the finest detail, it astonishes with its precision, which is “calculated” both in time and space. The essence of her work might be defined as a blurring of the boundaries between disciplines of art, striving to make an atmosphere of fear and disquiet perceptible to the various senses, states of suspense, concealment and critical moments. The artist treats space as a luminous sculpture you can walk inside. Angelika Markul’s installations play with viewers’ perceptions in two ways. On the one hand, they show the world of the imagination blended with reality. They disorient the viewer to such a degree that it can be hard to say what is reality and what is artistic fiction. On the other hand, their three-dimensionality and lighting disrupt the feeling of spatial comfort. Angelika Markul’s work is equally inspired by the world of nature, the atmosphere of places that do not bear the stamp of the past. The tales she heard in childhood also intrigue her and stimulate her imagination. Sometimes terrifying, other times poetic – much like fairy tales and legends themselves – her works deal with the most pressing aspects of human existence.

Angelika Markul (b. 1977 in Szczecin, lives and works in Paris) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris, from the “Introduction to the Exhibition“ seminar, and received a National Visual Arts Diploma in E.N.S.B.A. in the field of multimedia art. Over the course of the last few years, she has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions in Europe, including “La Clarté Souterraine“ Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, 2007/2008 (solo exhibition); “Parole d’insecte“, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, 2006 (solo exhibition); “The Pantagruel Syndrome“ in the framework of the T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei – Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Conteporenea in Turin, 2006; “J’en reve“ at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, 2005; “I Still Believe in Miracles“ at the Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2005 (her video installation remains in the permanent collection of the ARC Museum). She has also had many exhibits in Poland, including a solo exhibition at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw in 2006; “Post-modernity and Eternal Life“ at the Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań 2007; and “The Memory of This Moment from the Distance of Years Passing by“, at the Schindler Factory, Kraków 2007. The artist is presently preparing a solo exhibition for the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle  in Warsaw.