Magdalena Pilko

Disciplines: Fotograaf

Omschrijving werk

my artistic practice essentially consists of RAUMFAHRTEN (space travels). anchored in photography, these are narrative essays (extending to drawing, video and text) about space and time as visual motives, which question our perception and concepts of seeing. in pursuit of vanities, and keeping a delicate balance between precision and coincidence, my work can be seen as a plea for the variability of seeing, using somewhat minimalist language. taking the very basic, what I ask myself is what we really see, given the amount of visual conventions surrounding us. what’s left and has not yet become a quote? examining this requires reduction and restraint; my research often goes to the edge of what is visible and I count on the viewers’ cooperation to contribute their own imaginary spaces.

Werk

adagio I
Titel adagio I
Jaartal 2008
Omschrijving The images of Adagio I are as calm and unfathomable as the moment that they capture, withdraw subtly into the abstract and invite the beholder to take a closer look. Part of this work is a book that reads as score in which the passing moment at the seaside is captured, delayed, prolonged, anatomised and reconstructed. Adagio aims at getting round some of the presumed characteristics of photography: a clear vanishing point, an obvious standpoint, “the right moment“, in short: the “capturing“ of reality.
Techniek book
Formaat 24x30 cm
adagio I
Titel adagio I
Jaartal 2008
Omschrijving The images of Adagio I are as calm and unfathomable as the moment that they capture, withdraw subtly into the abstract and invite the beholder to take a closer look. Part of this work is a book that reads as score in which the passing moment at the seaside is captured, delayed, prolonged, anatomised and reconstructed. Adagio aims at getting round some of the presumed characteristics of photography: a clear vanishing point, an obvious standpoint, “the right moment“, in short: the “capturing“ of reality.
Techniek silver gelatin print on barite paper
Formaat 116x90 cm
sense of continuity
Titel sense of continuity
Jaartal 2009
Omschrijving What’s the difference when looking left and right? How do moving people interfere? Sense of continuity plays with small differences between moments that are separated by a minor shift of position and their stretch of time. One might not, at first sight, realize any difference, but feel a change. Irritation is a trigger for re-orientation and invites to determine significance anew. Sense of continuity consists of ten photo-pairs.
Techniek installation view
Formaat
black on black and white
Titel black on black and white
Jaartal 2010
Omschrijving The video takes the observer on a one-shot travel through a botanic garden capturing the quickly changing shadow-silhouettes falling on a hand-held black & white notebook. It plays with notions of the intangible and transient and evokes feelings of anxiety associated with losing ‘the moment’.
Techniek video
Formaat
adagio II
Titel adagio II
Jaartal 2010
Omschrijving Adagio II looks at a mash-up of architectonical inlays in a rural environment that contextualises layers of time and purpose, creating an interwoven texture that merits close inspection, image by image.
Techniek silver gelatin prints
Formaat 2 x 120x 140 cm
adagio II
Titel adagio II
Jaartal 2010
Omschrijving Adagio II looks at a mash-up of architectonical inlays in a rural environment that contextualises layers of time and purpose, creating an interwoven texture that merits close inspection, image by image.
Techniek book
Formaat
pretending to be outside
Titel pretending to be outside
Jaartal 2010
Omschrijving Modulation of time is conceived as an essay on visual immanence based on observation, experience and empirical research rather than assumptions and preconditions. Three pieces including Pretending to be outside were developed introducing a view that is in poetical-radical opposition to the overall highspeed-addiction and delusional sense of feasibility. Pretending to be outside is a series of 20 photos on (visual) inversions.
Techniek colour photo
Formaat variable
installation view
Titel installation view
Jaartal 2010
Omschrijving Modulation of time is conceived as an essay on visual immanence based on observation, experience and empirical research rather than assumptions and preconditions. Three pieces including Pretending to be outside were developed introducing a view that is in poetical-radical opposition to the overall highspeed-addiction and delusional sense of feasibility. Pretending to be outside is a series of 20 photos on (visual) inversions.
Techniek
Formaat
from the journals
Titel from the journals
Jaartal 2011
Omschrijving The Journals function like logbooks, they document where I go, geographically as well as conceptually.
Techniek scan of collage booklet
Formaat

Omschrijving werk

my artistic practice essentially consists of RAUMFAHRTEN (space travels). anchored in photography, these are narrative essays (extending to drawing, video and text) about space and time as visual motives, which question our perception and concepts of seeing. in pursuit of vanities, and keeping a delicate balance between precision and coincidence, my work can be seen as a plea for the variability of seeing, using somewhat minimalist language. taking the very basic, what I ask myself is what we really see, given the amount of visual conventions surrounding us. what’s left and has not yet become a quote? examining this requires reduction and restraint; my research often goes to the edge of what is visible and I count on the viewers’ cooperation to contribute their own imaginary spaces.

Persoonsgegevens

Voorletters
Kunstenaarsnaam/alias
Samenwerkingsverband
Website

Opleidingsgegevens

Erkende vakopleiding

Academie / instituut & plaats studierichting / specialisatie periode van / tot diploma
Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten photography 2005-2008 J

Andere opleiding

Instituut / docent & plaats (studie)richting periode van / tot
Vienna, University of Applied Arts photography 2004-2005
Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts arts pedagogy and philosophy 2001-2005

Overige gegevens

Lid van Beroeps / Kunstenaarsvereniging
Deelnemer van Kunstenaarsinitiatief

Curriculum vitae

Tentoonstellingen

jaartal naam tentoonstellingsruimte korte omschrijving solo / duo / groep
2010 walden affairs 'modulation of time' by magdalena pilko and 'scanning through landscapes' by pia rönicke DUO

Internationale uitwisseling

jaartal instelling
2008 Studio Austria in Rome

Publicaties

jaartal titel publicatie uitgever / samensteller, plaats typering

Prijzen en stipendia

jaartal instantie, plaats omschrijving
2010 fonds bkvb, amsterdam startsstipendium
2010 stroom, den haag stroom Invest Stipendium
2008 steenbergen stipendium dutch photo award
2008 stroom, den haag stroom aanmoedigingsprijs
2008 bmukk, vienna artist in residence for photography