Angelika Markul

Born in Poland in 1977, Angelika Markul began her career after studying cinema, interior architecture, and design, then completed her training at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in the Christian Boltanski studio. Graduated in 2003, she lives in Paris and does videos, installations, sculptures and “everyday artworks” since working with ColAAB, a publishing house founded by Aurélie Sarallier.

Her work unfolds around art and science, fiction and memory and questions our relationship with nature, universe, time. She explores wild and ancestral territories and vanished civilizations’ history but also takes a more political look at places where disasters happened (Fukushima, Tchernobyl…).

Private Choice presents its Tchouri coffee table at its 2023 edition. In her film Mémoire des glaciers (2019), Angelika Markul shows images from the planet Tchouryumov-Gerasimenko, known as Tchouri, an iced star considered as a fossil from the solar system formation. Scientists think that its organic seeds could have been at the origin of life on Earth. Fascinated by this story, Angelika Markul photographed part of the comet’s 3D model, gifted by the French Centre national d’études spatiales researchers, resulting thereafter in the crystallization of the star’s fragment in bronze. The coffee tabletop rests on three feet; its black satin patina is as if sculpted by the artist. The smooth surface but animated by small reliefs composes a poetic landscape, a call to journey through time.

Presentation based on a text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.