Performance: крайка / Krajka & Artist Talk: Mariia Mytrofanova & Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

02.02.2023 / 19:00 – 22:00
With Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Mariia Mytrofanova

Moderation: Małgorzata Markiewicz

Mariia Mytrofanova performs her work крайка / krajka together with a community of Ukrainian-speaking women, adding a wider layer of voices of specifically female narratives, which she refers to as “herstory” to her own family history. Mytrofanova embroidered on textiles the surnames of her ancestors, lost to displacement, or forced resettlement, and wove these pieces together into a krajka, a traditional form of Ukrainian belt.

Textiles, fabrics, and the craft of embroidery and sewing are also a way to initiate historical, psychological, social, and material processes of repair and healing in the work of current DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.

Together with Polish researcher and artist Małgorzata Markiewicz, the artists talk about similarities and differences in their work: sisterhood, intercultural identity, rootedness and uprooting, and seams that remain visible.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is a Polish-Roma artist and activist, who represented Poland at the 59th Venice Biennale. Mirga-Tas was born in Zakopane in Poland in 1978 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She lives in a Roma settlement in Czarna Góra, in the Tatra Mountains. Her vibrant patchworks, sculptures, and collages often depict scenes from Roma communities. They present affective herstories, sometimes of children or animals, less often of men. She is currently a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow.

Mariia Mytrofanova was born in 1999 in Odesa (Ukraine) and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Grekov Odesa Art School (2014–18) and from the Faculty of Art and Media at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. Mariia’s practice focuses on the fragility of human existence in the face of political, economic, and climatic changes. In 2022 Mytrofanova was a DAAD fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Małgorzata Markiewicz lives and works in Kraków, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she obtained a doctoral degree in 2015. Markiewicz also studied at Konstfack, Stockholm and at the Critical Design Studio at the Faculty of Architecture of the Royal Technology Academy in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently she works as an assistant professor at the Media Art Institute at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. In her artistic practice, Markiewicz uses textiles, crewel, and clothes. She elaborates on the problem of the cultural burden of gender identity and the social position of women. 

The conversation will be held in English.

Admission free

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