About Mari Skakun
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Education
2018 - 2020
BGIK
2007 - 2012
Institute of Modern Knowledges named A. M. Shirokova, Minsk
2003 - 2007
Minsk State College of Architecture and Civil Engineering
1994 - 2003
Gymnasium College of Art №1 of Minsk
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Event: "Arts Mantevillois”, France, 2023
Dates: 21 Oct 2023 - 26 Oct 2023
International group art exhibition
Event: Exhibition, Paris, 2023
Dates: 29 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2023
Exhibition of paintings by Mari Skakun as part of the Paris fashion air event
Event: Broken phone
Dates: 24 Sep 2022 - 8 Oct 2022
The first artist created a unique image and verbally described it to the second artist. the second artist contacts the third artist, introduces him to the idea of the project and tells him what he did according to the description from the first artist. Information is transmitted by telephone until it reaches the last participant.
I was the last member.
This is my 13th group exhibition.
Event: Faces and eyes
Dates: 19 Apr 2022 - 3 May 2022
Line
Ease
imperfection
Fluidity
Sight
Observation
Draw intuitively
let go of the line
follow yourself
Trust the process
Live emotions
Refuse canons and academism
Event: Art philosophy of Maria Skakun
Dates: 1 Apr 2022 - 15 Apr 2022
“My painting can be attributed to intuitive painting. The process for me is a deep journey into the unconscious, helping me to live my own emotions and states.
Through art, I explore the self-identification of personality, physicality and the experience of emotions. I am inspired by people, psychology, synesthesia of feelings, nature, music and the world of the unconscious. I often write in the style of abstract expressionism.
The exhibition presents works from different stages of life in Belarus and Poland.”
Event: Festival of Russian contemporary dances “Proba”
Dates: 1 Feb 2021 - 11 Feb 2021
Festival of Russian contemporary dances “Proba” with the cinema-dance project “N”
Event: “Love line. Eroticism in the works of the great masters of the 20th century”
Dates: 15 Dec 2020 - 8 Mar 2021
“Love line. Eroticism in the works of the great masters of the 20th century”
Event: Befor/After, Belarus 2020
Dates: 30 Oct 2020 - 1 Feb 2021
Befor/After, Belarus 2020 Krakow, Poland
Event: Autumn salon’20
Dates: 8 Oct 2020 - 30 Oct 2020
Autumn salon’20 In Palace of Arts, Minsk
Event: Exhibition “Art Capital 2020”, France
Dates: 11 Feb 2020 - 16 Feb 2020
Grand Palais
Art Capital 2020
Vernissage
This time in Paris I am greeted as a Belarusian artist, a participant in the “Art capital” Paris Salon in Grand Palais.
For me this is the first experience of an exhibition abroad of such a scale.
Under the dome of the palace gathered 2,000 artists from different countries.
The exhibition runs from February 11 to 16.
Event: Immersive exhibition “Labyrinth Bardo”
Dates: 27 Oct 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
The LABYRINTH BARDO @ labyrinth.bardo art and poetry exhibition is designed as a two-story labyrinth. Six black rooms with paintings inside. The paintings are accompanied by music and poetry, for which they were written. You can listen to the works through your own headphones. From time to time, paintings come to life from light installations directed at them.
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BARDO is a Tibetan Buddhist concept that means "transition" or the interval between the completion of one situation and the beginning of another. The passage from one room to another symbolizes the six states of BARDO: the process of dying, dharmata, birth, life, sleep and meditative concentration.
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Event: “Immersion. Portraits”
Dates: 8 Mar 2018 - 20 Apr 2018
exhibition of picturesque portraits and photographs
Biography
About me
Hello, my name is Maria Skakun, I'm an expressionist artist, performer, teacher and art therapist. Participant of international exhibitions. I live and work in France, in Rambouillet.
Born in Belarus
I have been drawing and studying fine arts since childhood, but since 2017 painting has become my main occupation. For 8 years I have been building a career in the IT and Fashion industry as a designer and art director, after which I decided to leave this activity and allow myself to create as an artist.
A free and strong line for me is communication and energetic connection with the world. It helps me and creates pure art.
In the creative process I explore the intuitive nature of lines, the unconscious, and experience various psychological states. I work with emotions and feelings. Likewise, through painting, I explore the nature of flesh and sexuality.
For me, the process of creating the painting is very important. At first I create an emotional expression on the canvas, during this process I spit out all my emotions and my state, it is like a dialogue with the unconscious. Then I look for the form of this expression - this is a conscious and always interesting process, because at the beginning of the work I trust myself completely and I never know what I will get in the end.
I work more often without a sketch - in this style and approach I feel bold and alive. I write abstractions, portraits and nudes.
My paintings a characterized by seriality, for a deep immersion in the subject.
I work in a mixed author's technique with oil, acrylic, wax pencils, etc.
I have 7 solo exhibitions and I am a participant in 14 group exhibitions
Collections
My works are in private collections in Belarus, France, USA, Poland, Germany, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Lithuania.
