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Karolina Markiewicz
& Pascal Piron

WORK / ABOUT

About

Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron work as an artist duo since 2013.
Contact: info @ markiewicz-piron.com

Works & Exhibitions

2022

IRREALITY. TRUST IN CHILDREN. SOME FUTURE.
- Print, LIAR NYC, New York City / US
- Video, Spektrum, Rumelange / LU

STRONGER THAN MEMORY AND WEAKER THAN DEWDROPS
- Installation, Passages Transfestival, Metz / FR

METAMORPHOSIS
- Solitudes Publiques / Publicité Solitaire (group show), SCHAU FENSTER and Project space KIMGO, Berlin / DE

METAMORPHOSIS VR EXPERIENCE
- CINEMANIA at the PHI Centre, Centre Phi, Montreal / CA
- They found truth in digital spaces (group show), Saarländische Gallerie, Brlin / DE
- VR Pavillon, Film Fund Luxembourg, Luxembourg City Film Festival, neimënster, Luxembourg / LU

THE LIVING WITNESSES
- Cinemania, Montreal / CA
- Miami Jewish Film Festival, Rhode Island / US

2021

METAMORPHOSIS
- Freigeister (group show), MUDAM, Luxembourg / LU

STRONGER THAN MEMORY AND WEAKER THAN DEWDROPS
- Solo show, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg / LU

THE LIVING WITNESSES
- documentary, 84 mn, produced by Paul Thiltges Distributions, Luxembourg / LU
- preview, Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg / LU
- premiere, Cineast Film Festival, Luxembourg / LU
- Flickers RIIFF, awarded Grand Prize at FLICKERS' Riiff 2021, Rhode Island / US
- Miami Jewish Film Festival, Rhode Island / US

PFH VR EXPERIENCE
- VR Pavillon, Film Fund Luxembourg, Luxembourg City Film Festival, neimënster, Luxembourg / LU

2020

MY IDENTITY IS THIS EXPANSE!
- Bucheon International Animation Festival / KR
- 360 FILM FESTIVAL (Best sound award) / FR
- Palm Springs Intl. Animation Festival / US

TO NOT BE DESTROYED BY POWDER TO THE POWDER AND THE FIST
- ME, FAMILY online group exhibition curated by Francesco Bonami and Emmanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera, MUDAM (until June 2021), Luxembourg / LU

pfh*
- solo exhibition, Pomhouse CNA, Dudelange / LU

SUBLIMATION
- Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg / LU
- EFM VR Berlinale, Berlin / DE

FEVER
- Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Musée du Louvre - auditorium, Paris / FR
- VR Arles - Paris edition, Paris / FR

2019

SUBLIMATION
- 76th Venice Biennale Cinema, official selection, Venice / IT
- selected by Venice Biennale Cinema for College Biennale Cinema VR, Venice / IT

FEVER
- 25th Geneva International Film Festival, official selection, Geneva / CH
- Virtual Worlds, official selection (international competition), Munich / DE
- VR Arles Festival, official selection (internation competition), Arles / FR
- Festival de Cannes, Marché du Film, Cannes / FR
- European Month of Photography, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg / LU

EUROPA IM HERBST
- Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin / DE
- Rencontres Internationales, Forum des images, le Carreau du Temple, Centre Pompidou, Cité internationale des arts, Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris / FR

HERE BE DRAGONS
- experimental shortfilm selected at Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg / LU

MULTIPLICA
- poster, video, 360 and VR experience for Multiplica festival, à la découverte des arts numériques, Luxembourg / LU

F(L)IGHT SKETCHES FOR BERT THEIS
- Cercle Cité, Luxembourg / LU

Conference OPENDISCUSSION, neimënster, Luxembourg / LU

2018

HERE BE DRAGONS
- dust to dust: of myths and men The Cube Project Space & VT Artsalon, Taipei / TW

SIDE-EFFECTS OF REALITY
- Festival du Film Subversif, Metz / FR

EUROPA IM HERBST
- Cineast Film Festival, Luxembourg / LU
- Oh... Fabelhaft!, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna / AT
- Rencontres Internationales, Forum des images, le Carreau du Temple, Centre Pompidou, Cité internationale des arts, Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris / FR

NEON THOUGHTS
-European Heritage Days, Metz / FR

SUBLIMATION
- Butoh Experience, VR Days Europe, Amsterdam / NL

SOLIDARITÉIT ASS EE GROUSST WUERT
- documentary, 26 mn, Callach Films / LU

2017

SIDE-EFFECTS OF REALITY
- Centre d'art Dominique Lang, Dudelange / LU (solo)
- Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / DE
- Homeland, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels / BE
- Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris / FR
- 23rd Nancy International Film Festival, Nancy / FR

NEON THOUGHTS
- Luxembourg City Light Festival, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain and Luxembourg City Museum, Luxembourg / LU

2016

SIDE-EFFECTS OF REALITY
- Blackbox, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg / LU (solo)
- The present is yours, the future is mine, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg / LU

MOS STELLARIUM
- Festival du film de la ville de Québec, Québec / CA
- European Film Weeks, Helsinki / FI
- One World Film Festival, Bucharest / RO
- 4th Silk Road Festival, Dublin / IR

2015

MOS STELLARIUM
- The Silver Lining, Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice / IT
- 5th EU Human Rights Film Days, Ankara & Istanbul / TR
- Wo das Gras grüner ist, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz / LI
- documentary, 52 mn, Tarantula / LU

A FEW POEPLE LAUGHED, A FEW PEOPLE CRIED, MOST PEOPLE WERE SILENT
- CAPE, Ettelbruck / LU
- neimënster, Luxembourg / LU

LES FORMIDABLES
- Rencontres Internationales, Berlin 2015, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin / DE

PHILOKTET (theatre play)
- CAPE, Ettelbruck / LU
- opderschmelz, Dudelange / LU
- neimënster, Luxembourg / LU

2014

LES FORMIDABLES
- Rencontres Internationales, Paris 2014, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris / F
- Angste Povera / PNSL Collective, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg / LU

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
- Fail, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg / LU

Founders of Kulturstruktur video talks

2013

EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIE IN AN EXPENSIVE CAR, KIOSK
- (commissioned by AICA), Luxembourg / LU


Bio
Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron’s collaborative work creates links between film, visual arts and theatre. At the center is the individual person as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope.
Karolina Markiewicz studied political science, philosophy and theatre and works as a film and theatre director. Pascal Piron studied visual arts and works as an artist and film director. Both work as teachers.
Their cooperation started in 2013 and allowed Pascal Piron to take a step away from painting and to look at image from a different way, not only when it comes to two-dimensional perspective, but also space. For Karolina Markiewicz, it was an occasion to come back to research about directing and literary writing as well as to finalise a documentary project from 2008. The result was their documentary video installation “Les Formidables” (2014), which tells the story of five young migrants in Luxembourg. In 2014, they founded the video blog kulturstruktur.com.
In 2015 they worked on the project Philoktet, which includes the homonymous play by Heiner Müller and an exhibition relating the Greek tragedy to Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. As part of the preparations for this work, Karolina Markiewicz participated at a workshop held by Romeo Castellucci organised during the Theatre Biennale in Venice in 2015.
At the same time they released their second documentary Mos Stellarium, produced by Tarantula and supported by Film Fund Luxembourg. The documentary (52 minutes) follows six young refugees in Luxembourg. Part of this project is the installation of Mos Stellarium, which offers different parts of the movie simultaneously, thus giving a non-linear reading of the film. Karolina and Pascal have participated at the 56th Venice Art Biennale in 2015, with this video installation.
The documentary premiered in Luxembourg in 2015 and was shown at different festivals (Festival du film de la ville de Québec, European Film Weeks (Helsinki), One World Film Festival (Bucharest), 4th Silk Road Festival, (Dublin)).