Margo Sarkisova
Syrian visual artist of Ukrainian descent, born in 1997, currently lives in Graz.
Studied Interior Design at the Kharkiv Art College and Graphic Art and Printmaking at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
‘I focus on artworks that explore national identity, gender inequality and the role of women in Assyrian culture - often in relation to the broader concepts of "home” and "roots” and how cultural context shapes a person's life.’
Projects/presentations (selection):
2025 "Messages from another borderless zone”, Xcenter, European Capital of Culture/ Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2024 "Crisis of Imagination” exhibition, B7 art centre, Mechelen, Belgium
2024 «Struggle & Contemplation» Galerija ,,Marko K. Gregović» Petrovac na Moru, Montenegro
2024 «I, She, Her» Performance, Theater am Land, Graz
2023 «Reflections on identity», KultumMuseum, Graz
2023 «Initiation» online personal exhibition, AFPA gallery, USA
2023 Gruppenausstellung «Papier», Delphian gallery, La Madeleine, Ligné, France
2023 «KHMYZ Mixed-Media Ausstellung» GISELA Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin, D
2022 «Of War & Peace» online personal exhibition, Isadore & Dunn art gallery, New York, USA
2022 «Works on paper 4» online exhibition, Blue shop gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 «Unity: British & Ukrainian Art» by The Art Unit, Koppel X, London, United Kingdom
2020/2021 Project «6769», municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 Beteiligung am Project «Falling Shadow of Dreams» im Ukrainischen Pavilion. 58. Kunst Biennale, Venedig, Italy
2018 «Uncertainty» Ksi Prostir, Dnipro, Ukraine
2017 «Layering of meanings» Hudpromloft, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Works for the Artmachine:
Edition 10 / 2025 Location Pöllau
Title: Dry twigs/transparent Birds
Category: Ceramics
Description: Pieces of twigs made of clay, fired and painted
My work is connected to the memory of the apple tree from my grandmother's garden - twigs are metaphorical bodies of it, pale, brittle remnants of life. Each ‘branch’ has its own bird or seed, symbolising the hope of the future apple orchard that will grow; the dry branch is the metaphorical end of the circle and the seed is the new beginning. .
Fotos (c): Artem Pankov