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2014 - 2020
Stroganov Academy of Fine Arts and Design
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Event: 2023 - Just LX, Lisbon (with Marvila Art Gallery)
Dates: 25 May 2023 - 28 May 2023
2023 - Just LX, Lisbon (with Marvila Art Gallery)
Event: Perfomance
Dates: 16 Apr 2023 - 1 May 2023
2023 - "Limpezas de Primavera", Galeria Graca Brandao, Lisbon (perfomance)
Event: 2023 - A legitima+Federica Elena Studio, Lisbon (personal)
Dates: 2 Mar 2023 - 2 Apr 2023
2023 - A legitima+Federica Elena Studio, Lisbon (personal)
Event: Sotoportego
Dates: 9 Feb 2023 - 4 Mar 2023
Sotoportego series.
Sotoportego is an element of urban planning in the city of Venice, which connects a building and a canal.
For the artist, Sotoportego is a symbol of the connection between the past, static and solid like architecture, and the present, changing in reflection like water. The artwork is the result of deep inspiration from a trip to Venice in 2020 and wonderful working days in the place of Marvila.
Marvila, Lisboa 2023
Event: The Journey
Dates: 8 Sep 2022 - 28 Oct 2022
Journey. What does it mean to you?
You can travel between countries and places, between past and future,
between your own and not your own thoughts.
Art is a dialog between past and future. Art reflects the future.
The images of the past are fluid and fuzzy, they are refracted through
subsequent experience and present mood, giving birth to the memories of the
future.
Time is one of the key themes.
The shapes of figures are fuzzy, dissolving, like the moment of creation the
painting in real life, dissolving between the past and the future. Sometimes you
are a stranger to yourself, faces are unclear and hidden in the shadows.
Event: Venice International Art Fair 14 Edition.
Dates: 16 Dec 2021 - 10 Jan 2022
The 14th Edition of Venice International Art Fair represents a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performances.
Venice International Art Fair 2021 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and the cultural/physical/social/urban context in contemporary time, through two main sections: LIQUID ROOMS and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
FUTURE LANDSCAPES are abstract, infinite and conceptual, associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind, spaces redefine their limits and borders, transforming surfaces in an open flow of pure ideas. This section focuses on the concept of boundaries and structures between body, mind and soul, human identity and the city, the space and the ground.
(from https://www.itsliquid.com/)
Event: CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021
Dates: 16 Nov 2021 - 9 Dec 2021
The ninth edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 analyzed the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
MIXING IDENTITIES analyzed the hidden parts of our identities, through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness. While FUTURE LANDSCAPES explored the concept of the borders and the structures between body, mind, and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground.
(from https://www.itsliquid.com/)
Event: Exhibition in Boomer Gallery
Dates: 10 Jun 2021 - 16 Jun 2021
I took a part in a group exhibition to celebrate one year anniversary of the opening of Boomer Gallery in Central London.
Boomer is a London based art gallery created by a group of British artists and art enthusiasts who aim to transcend the gap between culture and countries, highlight the best hidden gems out there and push the boundaries forward.
Event: International Contemporary Art Fair ART RUSSIA
Dates: 20 Feb 2020 - 23 Feb 2020
The exposition stands of galleries and painters from Russia, France, Germany, Monaco, USA were presented at the fair. More than 4,000 applications were submitted for participation in the project, of which 65 artists and 15 galleries were selected.
You was able to visit the exposition stands of such galleries as «Khankhalaev Gallery», «11.12», «55 Bellechas», «Omelchenko» and other. The list of known authors includes Dmitry Kustanovich, Kevin Abosch, Young-Sung Kim, Innokentiy Baranov, Alla Smirnoff and the other masters whose works are being stored in big museums and private collections.
Biography
Maria was born in Moscow, Russia in 1996. She has graduated in 2020 from the Stroganov Moscow Academy of Art and Design as Artist of Interiors, MA, after which she was working as interior designer and architect. In 2022 Maria moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where she successfully was accepted for an art residency in MAD Marvila Gallery.
Composing the special narrative of people acting in art and an idea of soul vitality, Maria creates dreamy, wondering, motion and very real in it’s imperfection, thought not realistic, images of people. Maria aims to find life of the soul and senses in painting, and to find and understand our influence on the creative process of each other during co-creation. She directs artistic experiences and searches for visual images of spirit movement, working with different mediums, including painting and performance.
In 2023 Maria became co-founder of an art school Bakst in Lisbon, which aims to create a safe space where people will be able to earn and to share their creative ideas. She also co-created “Between us”, an art group, formed by painter Maria Who, composer player Francisco Nogueira and dancer/choreographer Sara Paternesi, which creates unique kind of art, performative and based on dialogue.
Maria has participated in different exhibitions, such as personal exhibition “Sotoportego” in MAD Marvila Gallery (2023, Lisbon), Limpezas de Primavera (2023, Lisbon), Venice International Art Fair (2022, Venice), The Secret Garden (2021, Venice), Boomer gallery show (2021, London), Art Russia (2020, Moscow).
