New Cartography

The map of Europe shown at the exhibition is made of ceramic glazed black containers corresponding to the number of countries within Europe. Each container represents a country has different wall heights or boundaries that separate them from their neighbours.                                      

The students who Malgorzata Markiewicz teaches within the Faculty of Art were invited to create the map. Each student made one container.                                        

The work can open up a discussion about growing nationalist tendencies and weakening of the unity in Europe today. It refers to the phenomenon of closing the borders, building walls and creating divisions.                            

Each of us had to give away our “own” piece of work to create a whole. One lonely container, as one isolated European country, could not achieve so much as in a collective.

Made by:

Małgorzata Markiewicz: GREAT BRITAIN, SWITZERLAND

and her students from ART DEPARTMENT OF PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY IN KRAKOW:

Dominika Kapusta – BULGARIA

Mateusz Lipiński – ESTONIA

Marta Romankiv – AUSTRIA

Agata Babula – FINLAND, BELGIUM

Halina Jeziorska – GERMANY

Kristina Slusarevskaya – UKRAINE

Sarah Balikowski – FRANCE

Estera Gałuszka – ROMANIA

Joanna Mizerska – CORSICA, SARDINIA

Dominika Spytek – SZWEDEN

Małgorzata Kowalik – BELARUS

Aleksandra Kwater – GREECE

Szymon Zakrzewski – HUNGARY

Mateusz Saks – Dąbrowski – IRLAND

Paulina Lach –NORWAY

Łukasz Leśniak – ITLAY

Dominka Masłowiec – SPAIN

Joanna Ledworuch – DENMARK

Anastazja Placec – MOLDAVIA, GEORIGIA

Emila Kubis –PORTUGAL

Jagoda Stasiak – SLOVAKIA

Kinga Piwińska – CZECH

Karolina Tenerowicz – POLAND

Agnieszka Pałuk – HOLAND

Iwona Płoskonka – ISLAND

Martyna Pietrzak – SERBIA, ALBANIA

Agata Suchanek – CROATIA

Edhar Shvets – LITHUANIA

Natalia Rak – LATVIA