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Angelika Markul, born on the 15th of December 1977, is a French-Polish artist. Known for her video installations and sculptural work, she works and lives in Paris.

Biography
In 2003, she graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, from the multimedia studio directed by Christian Boltanski. Angelika Markul is also Christian Boltanski’s moral rights holder — which prerogatives are the right of disclosure, the right of respect of the works’ integrity and the right to

authorship.

She was awarded the Sam Art Projects Prize (2012), the COAL Art and environment Prize (2016) and the Maïf Prize (2017).

At the beginning of her career, her work is noticed through the support of great French institutions, with the exhibitions I still believe in miracles at the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain of Paris and J’en rêve at the Fondation Cartier in 2005. At the same time she starts to develop a plastic work mixing video installations and wax sculptures. Her work has since been exhibited in various cultural institutions : art centres and museums throughout the world, from Shanghai to Buenos Aires, through Warsaw and New York.

These last years, her work has been focusing of the relationship between science and fiction, in order to produce, from her video installations, a myth close to science-fiction. She regularly goes to places difficult to access, considered as dangerous or completely abandoned : the area of Chernobyl, the city of Fukushima, or the Naïca’s Grottos in Mexico.

In 2013, Angelika Makul occupies the Orangerie du Domaine de Chamarande with a specific creation for the place, under the curating of Lauranne Germond. In 2014, she presents her solo exhibition Terre de départ at the Palais de Tokyo, curated by Daria de Beauvais, representing a turning point in her career. The interests that lead her work are time, memory, Man and nature. She presents four different video installations Bambi à Tchernobyl (2014), Gorge du Diable (2013), Terre de Départ (2014) et 400 milliards de planètes (2014).

In 2018, she presented her exhibition Tierra del Fuego at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris), curated by Lauranne Germon and Claude d’Antenaise. She presented a series of works around the disappearance of the amerindian Yagans people in relation to today’s disappearance of glaciers. This project appeared in the continuity of the work Mémoire des Glaciers (2017), a video realised in El Calafate where she had recorded the melting of the Perito Moreno glaciers. She regularly collaborates with scientist, especially Masaaki Kimura, geologist for her video Zone Yonaguni, realised in the south of Japan, aiming to discover a drowned monument which exact origins are unknown, as well as Steve Salisbury, archeologist for her video Marella, recorded in the surroundings of the city of Broome in Australia, in the world’s largest listed site of dinosaur tracks.

In 2020, she presented a new solo exhibition, Formule du Temps, at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière.

Even though she does not call herself an ecologist, her work is regularly associated to ecological awareness and the notion of Anthropocene. In 2018, she was invited at the Centre Pompidou as part of the seminar What ecological transition for culture ? animated by Jean Max Colard. .

The artist is represented by the Leto Gallery (Warsaw, Poland) and Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid, Spain).

Angelika Markul also holds Christian Boltansk i’s moral rights, which prerogatives are the right of disclosure, the right of respect of the works’ integrity and the right to authorship.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2008, La Clarté souterraine,, Warsaw.
 * 2009, Nów,, Toruń.
 * 2010, Salon Noir, MAC/VAL, Musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine.
 * 2012, Do not Forget, Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland, 2012
 * 2013, The Unleashed Forces. Angelika Markul and Contemporary Demonism (Wyzwolone siły. Angelika Markul i współczesny demonizm), Muzeum Sztuki Łódź
 * 2013, Installation monumentale, Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande.
 * 2014, Terre de départ, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
 * 2016, What is lost is at the beginning, Ujadowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2016, Excavations of the Future, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
 * 2018, Tierra del Fuego, Galerie Leto, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2018, If the hours were already counted, Sector 2337, Chicago, United States
 * 2018, Tierra del Fuego, Muntref – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 2018, Tierra de Origen, Galerie Albarán Bourdais, Madrid Spain
 * 2018, Tierra del Fuego, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
 * 2020, La formule du temps, Centre international d’art et de paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Vassivière, France
 * 2021, Excavations of the Future, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France
 * 2021, Deadly Charm of Snakes, Galerie Leto, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2021, Tierra del fuego, OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw, Poland
 * 2021, Tierra del fuego, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
 * 2021, Después, Galería Albarrán Bourdais, Minorque, Spain (with Christian Boltanski)
 * 2022, Who are you ? with Tadeusz Kantor [duo show], Centrum Gietdowe,Warsaw, Poland
 * 2022, Memory of Glaciers, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
 * 2022, The Elemental, Fondation LAccolade, Palm Springs, California, United States
 * 2022, 7306 days, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
 * 2023, Prologue of the exhibition L'Univers sans l'Homme, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie de Valence, France
 * 2023, O, Lie on Me, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Group exhibitions

 * 2005, I still believe in miracles, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, France
 * 2005, J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
 * 2005, The Pantagruel Syndrome, Triennal Castello di RIVOLI, Musée d’art contemporain, Turin, Italy
 * 2007, La chaine-artists of France and Japan, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
 * 2009, Wolnosc od-zysku, Galerie National ZACHETA, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2010, Collectionneuse, Focus Biennale de Lodz, Lodz, Poland, 2010
 * 2012, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada
 * 2013, Tristan da Cunha, Pavillion 0, Signum Fondation, Venice, Italy, 2013
 * 2014, Inhabiting the world, Busan Biennale, South Korea
 * 2015, Take me I’m yours, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
 * 2015, Migraciones En El Arte Contemporaneo, Muntref – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Sede: Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 2015, The State of Life, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2015 ;
 * 2016, Take me I’m yours, The Jewish Museum, New York, United-States
 * 2017, Sans réserve, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
 * 2017, Summer After images, Angelika Markul, Konrad Smolenski, Leto gallery, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2017, 3 Years anniversary group show, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
 * 2017, Take me I’m yours, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 2017, Bienalsur, Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentine ; Fundación Migliorisi Museum, Asunción, Paraguay
 * 2018, Take me I’m yours, Villa médicis, Rome, Italy
 * 2018, A hole in time, CAC La traverse, Alfortville, France
 * 2018, The Ratcatcher, Muzeum Wspolczesny Wroclaw, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2018, Remix of Damage, Barcsay Museum, Szentendre, Hungary
 * 2018, Dessine moi un drapeau, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
 * 2018, Départ, Solo Galerie, Madrid, Spain
 * 2018, Après, Galerie Kewenig, Palma de Majorque, Majorque
 * 2019, Men like Gods, OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw, Poland
 * 2019, Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 2019, Alienations or the fire next time, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2019, Human-Free Earth, U-jazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary art, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2020, Le vent se lève, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
 * 2020, From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures, post MoMA, New York, E-U, online platform
 * 2020,100 Ways to Live a Minute, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, online platform
 * 2021, Marella, La Littorale Biennale Internationale Art Contemporain Anglet, Anglet, France
 * 2021, Yonaguni Area,BIENAL SUR, Argentina
 * 2021, Video at Large, Pejman Foundation, Téhéran, Iran
 * 2021, Festival Rayo, commissaire Pedro Portellano, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
 * 2021, Solo Summer Group Show II, Solo House, Spain
 * 2021, Fotofestiwal Lodz, commissaire Józef Robakowski, Lodz, Pologne
 * 2021, Goolarabooloo, La Littorale Biennale Internationale Art Contemporain Anglet, Anglet, France
 * 2021, Goolarabooloo, FIAC 2021, Paris, France
 * 2022, The Gaia Hypothesis, The Elemental, Palm Springs, California, United States
 * 2022, Yonaguni Area, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan
 * 2022, Hypernuit, Base sous marine, Bordeaux (Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine - CAPC)
 * 2022, Plavalaguna, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2022, Contre-Temps, Centre culturel de rencontre d’Ambronay, France
 * 2022, CAC Malaga, Spain
 * 2022, Le paysan, le chercheur et le croyant, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France
 * 2022, Unique design x, ColAAb, Paris, France
 * 2022, Le French design 100 : un écrin pour les savoir-faire français, ColAAb, Paris, France
 * 2023, Paraboles, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
 * 2023, Art Genève, ColAAb, Genève, Suisse
 * 2023, Art Dubaï, Galerie Albarran Bourdais, Dubaï, UAE
 * 2023, BWA Wroclaw, Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Wroclaw, Pologne
 * 2023, Impact, Espace de l'art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
 * 2023, Intersect, The Elemental, Palm Springs, California, United States
 * 2023, The Gaia Hypothesis, Chapter one 2.0, The Elemental, Palm Springs, California, United States
 * 2023, Le vide comme repère, Artocène, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
 * 2023, Milano Design Week, ColAAb, Milan, Italy
 * 2023, Le Cercle Chromatique x ColAAb, Palais des Expositions des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
 * 2023, Prześwit Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2023, Cinema Galleggiante, Venice, Italy
 * 2023, Paris Design Week Factory, ColAAb, Paris, France
 * 2023, Private Choice, Paris, France

Prizes

 * Special mention Prix Altadis 2006-2007.
 * Prix SAM pour l'art contemporain (2012)
 * Prix Coal, Art et Environnement (2016)
 * Prix MAIF (2017)

References.
