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Based on a story about my Javanese great-grandmother Painem, told by my grandmother.
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From the glossary Àngels Miralda wrote as part of a text and glossary for our exhibition at 'Being Embedded in Ulterior Layers': Ayam Ketawa. Is a breed of chicken originating in Indonesia. The name translates to “laughing chicken” due to its long crows that sound like human laughter. This type of chicken is seen as a symbol of courage and heroism. One of them is depicted on a painting by Marie Civikov and represents a family story from the Indonesian freedom fight for independence. Her grandmother Bertha recounted a story in Dutch which was translated to English by her great-aunt Marie: “The three-day war had started. We closed all of the shutters and windows and the front door. We figured the bullets would first have to penetrate those before they hit us. We put mattresses on the floor and during the shootings we would lie on those. There was plenty of food in the storage as well as a few free-range roosters and chickens. During breaks in the shootings we would prepare simple meals. On the second day, two armed guards entered the house - they were looking for men and arms. Uncle Franz had gone to stay elsewhere, but they searched the shelves. We stood by to make sure they would not steal our food as we needed this to sell and stay alive from the proceeds. They took one chicken and told us “this is your contribution to the freedom fight.” After that, Tante Mien sacrificed the rest of the chickens in case they came back to take more, at least we would have eaten them. We ate rice and fried chicken for the remaining days of war.”
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in collaboration with Voin de Voin, made for 'Wild Wild Æst', a video program responding on what we tend to call 'Eastern Europe'.
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‘Аз’, the Bulgarian word for ‘I’, sounds phonetically like ‘Az’ and with an accent it could also continue as the English ‘us’. The solistic ‘I’ then acquires the paradoxical meaning of the collective ‘us’.
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TRWNDWU #3, You have seen me in your Sleep, Ruimtevaart Den Haag, edited registration, March 17, 2018 In collaboration with Voin de Voin and Andrew Fremont-Smith
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performance and installation with Voin de Voin and Andrew Fremont-Smith, Ruimtevaart Den Haag
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Soft Power Palace, Kunstgebäude Stuttgart with Æther Sofia, an initiative by a.o. Akademie Schloss Solitude in collaboration with Voin de Voin and Andrew Fremont-Smith
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performance and installation in collaboration with Voin de Voin, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (BG)
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A cooperation/performance with Voin de Voin, bird suits, location pic, Sofia, 2017
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Overzict solostand This Art Fair
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Solo show at Structura Gallery, December 2022, Sofia
Websites
Social media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
Æther Haga, a sister and satelite of Æther Sofia (BG)
Platform
jegensentevens.nl
Curriculum vitae
Education
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1998 - 2002Autonoom Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning Academie diploma
exhibitions
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2025Doublet - (...in progress/coming up) Concordia Enschede, Netherlands In DOUBLET koppelen we twee kunstenaars aan elkaar. Op het eerste gezicht lijken de werken die ze neerzetten in niets op dat van de ander. Zoals een videowerk over planten en een bos, samen met felroze kunststof ledematen… Toch is er altijd een overeenkomst. De bezoeker hoeft dit niet uit te puzzelen of tot een soort oplossing te komen, maar kan het gebruiken als aanleiding om in gesprek gaan met de kunstenaars, met het kunstwerk en met andere bezoekers. doublet.concordia.nl/
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2024Being embedded in ulterior layers Odapark Venray, Netherlands Marie Civikov, Iver Uhre Dahl , Karla Paredes K, Fedrik Vaessen & Noa Zuidervaart met within the Apprentice/Master project of Kunstpodium T in Tilburg. At the end of this trajectory, they were awarded the Jan Naaijkens Prize 2023 as a collective. Part of the prize is this follow-up exhibition at Odapark. In 'Being embedded in ulterior layers' the artists collectively weave a layered landscape. Within this environment they reflect on (fictional) pasts, the turbulent present and possible futures. What is affected by the ravages of time, and what remains intact? Using artificial remains, the artists explore our understanding of temporality and permanence. Marie Civikov's sculptural paintings hang from the ceiling in this landscape like banners or shields, recounting a complex family history intertwined with the Dutch history of migration and colonialism. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) www.odapark.nl/tentoonstelling/item/314-embedded-in-ulterior-layers Group
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2024Something Else IV Citadel of Saladin Cairo, Egypt Something Else is an annual all-out exhibition organised by the team of Darb1718, with the direction of artistic director Simon Njami and director Moataz Nasr. Each year, a selection of international and Egyptian curators brings a proposal to the historic Citadel of Salah-el-Din on a promontory in Cairo. The mission of this exhibition is to create a significant moment of gathering of local and international artists around a month-long exhibition and a full programme of public events. International artists meet and congregate with the dynamic artistic circles of Egypt. somethingelse.art/ Group
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2022
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2020#stateofexception Art Project Depot / +359 Gallery Sofia / online, Bulgaria On March 13, 2020, a state of exception was stated in Bulgaria, as in many countries around the world, in connection with the declared pandemic of Covid 19 virus. The subsequent social isolation stopped not only the normal rhythm of life for every citizen from the affected countries, it rescheduled all over the world under completely new rules of conduct in the public arena unforseen for us all. Unexpectedly, we found ourselves in a situation of an unfamiliar form of government, which, according to Giorgio Agamben's definition, "is no one's land between public law and political fact, and between law and order." In his book Homo Sacer 2: The State of Exception Agamben explores this "temporary and extraordinary" measure of emergency management from the time of the Roman Empire to the present day. At the heart of this analysis is Agamben's observation that such a government technique is "increasingly presented as the dominant paradigm of government in the contemporary politics", and threatens to radically transform the structure and meaning of the traditional distinction between the constitutionally established forms of power (legislative, executive, judiciary). Or, as Agamben describes it, "the state of exception“ is “the threshold between democracy and absolutism." In this sense, he examines the difference between the political and the legal, and between the law and the living being, while trying to answer a fundamental question for our time: What does it mean to act politically? The #stateofexception project launches on April 5, 2020 with an online exhibition hosted by +359 Gallery www.plus359gallery.com and Art Project Depot association www.artprojectdepot.com, in partnership with KX - Critique & Humanism Publishing House www.kx-publishing.org. Our goal was to start a discussion on the state of exception involving contemporary visual artists, publishers, philosophers and cultural scientists. The exhibition is a constant dialogue between the artists, the artistic platforms on which the event takes place and the publishing house, which adds book quotes from books, published by Critique & Humanism, to the works prepared by the artists for the project. plus359gallery.com/en/stateofexception/ Group
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2019Digital Ecologies Ancient Bath Sofia, Bulgaria Digital Ecologies 2018-2019, Plovdiv, Bulgaria: an international exhibition project in two folds Fold II, 2019. Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future (04 May - 30 June 2019; symposium 05/06 May 2019) Fold I, 2018. Operaismo Naturale: Ecology of the Event (27 July - 05 September 2018) Curated by Dimitrina Sevova Digital Ecologies is part of the program of Plovdiv 2019, European Capital of Culture. digital-ecologies.arttoday.org/ Group
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2018Soft Power Palace Kunstgebäude Stuttgart Stuttgart , Germany with Æther Sofia, an initiative by a.o. Akademie Schloss Solitude, ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen www.softpowerpalace.de/#participation Group
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2018The Revolution will not die with Us #2, Robotic Thought Sofia City Art Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria performance and installation in collaboration with Voin de Voin jegensentevens.nl/2018/03/the-revolution-will-not-die-with-us/ Group
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2018The Revolution will not die with Us #3, You have seen me in your Sleep Ruimtevaart The Hague, Netherlands performance and installation with Voin de Voin and Andrew Fremont-Smith mariecivikov.nl/trwndwu.html Duo
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2017Willem Twee Kunstruimte Encounter with the unknown Solo
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2017Revealing Galerie Nouvelles Images The Hague, Netherlands jegensentevens.nl/2017/11/nouvelles-images-legt-bloot-koubaa-heeken-van-den-toorn-civikov/ Group
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2016TETEM Kunstruimte, Enschede Size Matters - We Like Art - groepstentoonstelling Group
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2013Galerie Maurits van de Laar Bad Times New Religion Group
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2012Novosibirsk State Art Museum (Russia) International Triennial of Contemporary Graphic Arts Group
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2012Kunsthal Rotterdam AANWINST Collectie Hogeschool Rotterdam Group
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2011Every picture tells a story TENT Rotterdam Group
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2011Koninklijke Paleis Amsterdam Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst Group
Projects
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2015
De Torenkamer Opium op radio 4 (AVRO) werkperiode van 1 week in de Torenkamer van VondelCS met live verslaggeving in Opium op radio 4.
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2011
Groot Grafiek CBK Rotterdam Opdracht tot onderzoek naar grafische technieken om uiteindelijk tot prints te komen van groot formaat in Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Eindhoven.
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2009
"Open atelier" als onderdeel van randprogrammering Ro Theater weken RO Theater Randprogrammering Ro-weken in de Rotterdamse Schouwburg
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2009
Op zoek naar het Noordgevoel n.a.v. een project van Nynke Deinema en Caroline de Roy Kortste artist in residence ter wereld in Amsterdam-Noord
International exchanges/Residencies
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2018Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Germany Soft Power Palace, uitwisselingsproject Europese kunstinitiatieven
Commissions
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2011CBK Rotterdam Rotterdam Groot grafiek, zie finished
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2010DGS Harderwijk tekeningen finished
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2010diverse Rotterdam/Den Haag portretten finished
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2007eye2eye media Hilversum portret finished
Sales/Works in collections
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2017Diverse particuliere aankopen 2003 - 2017 NL schilderijen
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2016Stroom Den Haag, Stroom Pro Premium Den Haag
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2012Hogeschool Rotterdam Rotterdam schilderij
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2012Ploum Lodder Princen Rotterdam schilderij
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2012Collectie Hugo & Carla Brown Den Haag Schilderij
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2011CBK Rotterdam Rotterdam grafiek
Publications
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2016Terugblik op De Torenkamer AvroTros online interview
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2015Dichtkunstkrant Efrat Zehavi en Florimond Wassenaar mariecivikov.nl/press.html a magazine about poetry, art and current eveJaarlijks magazine over poëzie en beeldende kunst.e
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2014Een Kritische Positie. Over schilderijen van Marie Civikov Philip Peters mariecivikov.nl/about-press/index.html Essay
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2012Aanwinst / ACQUISITION Kunstcollectie Hogeschool Rotterdam UitgAanwinst / Aave Hogeschool Rotterdam Catalogus bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in de Kunsthal
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2011Signalement "Genadeloos binnenkomen" Kunstbeeld, Sandra Spijkerman mariecivikov.nl/about-press/Kunstbeeld%20jan.%202012%20-%20tekst%20Sandra%20Spijkerman.html 6 pagina's in woord en beeld.
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2011Koninklijke prijzen vrije schilderkunst uitgereikt NRC Handelsblad recensiel over de Koninklijke Prijs 2011
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2011Tegen de pixeladepten, schilderen anno 2011 De Groene Amsterdammer, Paul Kempers recensie van Every Picture Tells A Story, tentoonstelling in TENT Rotterdam
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2011Geen titel, Radio interview VPRO Radio, De Avonden interview in een reportage over Every Picture Tells A Story, tentoonstelling in TENT Rotterdam
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2011Catalogus Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2011 Stichting Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam Catalogus bij de gelijknamige prijs en tentoonstelling
reviews
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2018Towards Possible Futures - Schloss-Post Blog/Vlog The interview was conducted by Denise Helene Sumi Germany schloss-post.com/towards-possible-futures/?fbclid=IwAR1jZHYDk7VhZzW8sm3BhtK_wZqe6onZ-qBGghZjtWZPxxw9_ONg6TabfK4 Interview About Becoming The Other, Our contribution to Schloss-Post, the open platform of Akademie Schloss Solitude in the run-up to the Soft Power Palace Festival where we will be present with Æther. with Æther: Voin de Voin, Marie Civikov, and Andrew Fremont Smith — Oct 15, 2018
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2018Revolutia TV Sofia, Bulgaria www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9u4dpfdBg "Revolutia", Tele-doc by Silviya Stanoeva and Andrey Volkashin on The Revolution will not die with Us, during the making of episode 2, Robotic thought, a long term project in collaboration with Voin de Voin. Part of the series "Atelié" broadcasted on (BNT) by Alma Mater tv. (EN/BG) 2018
Awards and grants
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2021PRO Onderzoek, Stroom Den Haag
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2017Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent mondriaan fonds
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2016PRO Premium, Stroom Den Haag
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2011Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst St. Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam
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2010Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (nominatie) St. Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam
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2009Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (nominatie) St. Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam
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2006Basissubsidie (Productiesubsidie) Fonds BKVB
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2004Buning Brongersprijs Buning Brongersstichting
Secondary art-related activities
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2024 - --Advisor Mondriaan Fund On-going
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2021 - --Educator Kunstmuseum On-going
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2020 - --Adviescommissie Cultuur Alkmaar On-going
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2018 - 2021Commissie Broedplaatsensubsidies
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2013 - 2024redacteur Jegens&Tevens On-going
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2012 - 2012Gastdocent Willem de Koning Academie Rotterdam
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2009 - 2009Docent tekenen en schilderen TU Delft
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2006 - 2011Museumdocent Gemeentemuseum Den Haag