Nadia Markiewicz

#1 min Nadia Markiewicz

16. 6. 2021

Nadia Markiewicz, Supernormal, videoperformance, 2020
Nadia Markiewicz, Supernormal, videoperformance, 2020
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I deal with topics of disability, chance and identity, using vocabulary derived from entertainment. Decisions in my work are based on personal experience as well as on ongoing research on cultural representations of disability.

Supernormal is the term Harlan Hahn used to refer to standardized norms of beauty. In the video series, I reenact female characters from European films directed by men, returning the viewer’s gaze. Supporting myself with post-production, I play with a glitched reality.

All images: Nadia Markiewicz, Supernormal, videoperformance, 2020

 

 

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Nadia Markiewicz

 is visual artist, performer, author of installations and video art. PhD fellow at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City in 2023. MFA graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities of prof. Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2020). Also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2010-11) in Amsterdam and during an internship at the Studio of Performance at FaVU VUT in Brno led by Julie Béna and Jakub Jansa (2021). Received the Europe Beyond Access award granted by Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and British Council in 2021 and the Grand Prix at the 10th Biennale of Young Art Rybie Oko (Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, 2022).  Presented her works and performances at, among others, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2023), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022), Galeria Miejska Arsenał in Poznań (2022), Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2021), Sto Lat Gallery in New York (2021).  

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e feel like revising our relationships. This time, relationships between people. Relationships between genders whose borders are not as firm as we might have thought until recently – instead, they are entirely permeable. Society responds to non-binary or transformative identities in various ways: with sexism, vehement exclusion, hidden exclusion, glass ceilings or attempts at inclusion. The proportion of these forces is constantly developing and changing and we decided to focus on them, and not alone. We opted for an experiment, and invited, as guest editors, the collective of the studio of New Aesthetics at the Department of Photography at FAMU, Prague: Nikol Czuczorová, Nikolaj Jessen, Andrej Kiripolský, Zuzana-Markéta Macková, Tobias Páral, Ezra Šimek, Leevi Toija, Max Vajt and Hynek Alt with Jen Kratochvil. This collaboration broadened our perspective to include the age group of those currently studying. Together, we arrived not only at the result of the printed issue but also at a new form of digital content – a series of podcasts and videos. Our guests helped sensitize and materialize the themes depicted on the mental map they created when conceiving the issue, lobbying for a revision of our established perception of the selected aggregate that forms the backbone of the magazine’s content: pleasure, pain, chaos, jouissance, anxiety, responsibility, orgasm, non-binary language, activism, perversion, social experiment. The chain of association can continue as you browse the pages of the magazine or listen to the podcasts, whose considerable ambition is to use the spoken word to discuss visual art. It will be delight accompanied by pain – otherwise it would not be delight at all.

Portfolio review: how to make the most of 20 minutes

#3 min Markéta Kinterová

Portfolio review: how to make the most of 20 minutes

Fotograf zone PortfolioNetworking

What is a portfolio review, really? It’s a meeting that often lasts no more than twenty minutes. For some, it’s an unusual format — something between a professional consultation and a kind of informal speed dating. On one side are artists, on the other are professionals from the field: curators, editors, gallerists, offering their attention, experience, and above all, feedback. So how can you make the most of those twenty minutes?

Meet the talents nominated by Fotograf Zone for 2026

#5 min Markéta Kinterová

Meet the talents nominated by Fotograf Zone for 2026

Fotograf zone FUTURESFutures talents

We are pleased to introduce four artists nominated for the international FUTURES platform: Ondřej Kubeš, Jakub Tulinger, Miriam Pružincová, and Linda Zhengová. The nominated artists will take part in FUTURES activities, where they will have the opportunity to present their work to an international professional audience, establish new professional connections, and further develop their practice in dialogue with curators, institutions, and fellow artists from across Europe.

Taboo and Continuous Transformation – Chaeyeon Kang’s Winning Project

#2 min Světlana Malina, Chaeyeon Kang

Taboo and Continuous Transformation – Chaeyeon Kang’s Winning Project

Fotograf zone OpeningExhibition

On March 26, Fotograf Zone gallery presents 28 Days, a project by Chaeyeon Kang, on view in the gallery window. The project was selected as last year’s open call winner by a jury composed of Nadia Markiewicz and Vít Havránek. Kang explores the cycles of the female body and uses digital images and organic materials to question ideas of bodily perfection. The exhibition is visible from the street at all times from March 27 to April 12, 2026.