Community

Alicja Mackiewicz

Department / Programme

Studentof Fine Arts

Personal Website

https://www.instagram.com/a.sugarplum.1998/

Nationality

Polish

Previous Education

Fine Art Bachelor, KABK Den Haag

I work between performance, research and craft. Through subversive gestures and collective rituals, I invite narratives passed down through generations into my own and learn their tools in order to reshape them.

My work is an autoethnographic inquiry into freedom within inheritance. I explore queerness, failure, language, and marginal histories through embodied practices that exist between labour and gathering. I am interested in forms of knowledge carried through repetition, oral traditions, domestic work, and collective experience, outside of central archives of knowledge.

Collaboration is central to my practice. Alongside my artistic work, I organise art events and collective spaces, which I see as an extension of the practice itself. Performance, research, gathering, and ritual often overlap in my work and happen through a multitude of voices rather than a singular authorship.

In recent years, my focus has centred on needlework and textile theory. I approach textile both as material and language — a carrier of memory, labour, gender, and coded histories. Through performance and installation, I create situations that shift textile beyond decoration or utility and towards a methodology of liberation.

My recent thesis explores textile-making as an alternative archive, where the handmade and machinery, science and poetry, memory and language meet. I understand it as a historical capsule that exists alongside and further than the written word.

Works

Fedlev building & Benthem Crouwel building
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
Netherlands