Maryna Semenkova
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Maryna Semenkova (b. 1983) is a socially-engaged multimedia artist and researcher from Odesa, Ukrain...
About the artist
Maryna Semenkova
Joined In 2017
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About the artist
Maryna Semenkova
Joined In 2017
(5 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Maryna Semenkova (b. 1983) is a socially-engaged multimedia artist and researcher from Odesa, Ukraine, who uses photography and performance as her main mediums.
Applying the collage principle, Maryna “cuts reality into fragments” while including herself in much of her work.
Professionally trained as a lawyer, she has been practicing meditation and psychotherapy since 2008. The basis for her work is her own reflection and psychotherapy. Maryna believes that ecology begins in the minds of people: a conscious attitude towards oneself leads to ecological values and, accordingly, to the ecology of the environment.
Having traveled a lot, and lived in India for three years, Maryna learned the comfort of her own life as a woman, and observed how women live in other countries. She has explored the degree of freedom for women in social and family spheres and believes that in the post-Soviet space people are not sufficiently aware of what feminism is, they are hostile towards and wary of this “Western” word. She sees it as her mission to cover this topic and to draw attention to it.
Thus, ecofeminism was the main focus of her art practices until February 24, 2022.
On February 28, 2022 she left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian F...
Education and Work Experience:
2025
Participation and presentation of the performance Eulogy – Heidelberg Workshop on Human Rights Education and Solidarity in Uncertain Times. Mark Twain Center on Transatlantic Relations.
Participation in conference – Human Rights in the Balance: Safeguarding Social and Environmental Sustainability. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
2023-2024
Collaboration with Documentary The LOOM, USA-Germany.
2023
Long term Residency (13 months), SomoS, Berlin, Germany.
2022
Residency, HIAP Residency Programme, Nelimarkka Museo, Alajarvi, Finland.
Residency, NOT RESIDENCY, Munich, Germany.
Round table participation «Refugees. Geopolitics of exile», Festival Les Recontres de la Photographie. Arles, France.
Residency, Gallery Huit, Arles, France.
Residency, L’AiR ARTS, Paris, France.
2021
Certificate. System of Contemporary Art , SKVOT, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020
Performer at Solo Exhibition of Aleksander Shevchuk «Landscape gardening sculpture», Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine.
Certificate. Performance Art Summer School, Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine.
2018
Certificate in Graphic Design, Projector Private School, Odesa, Ukraine.
2017
Photojournalist, International Odes...
Exhibitions selected:
2025
Solo exhibition – RED UTOPIA project: photographs and video, Art Window, Vienna, Austria.
Group exhibition – photo series FROSTY GREY, The 11th Annual Autumnal Exhbition, Ideal glass studio, New York, USA.
Group exhibition – video of performance NO NAME – FEMNOISE, Vitalnya.community, Odesa, Ukraine.
2024
Group exhibition – video Paragraph 24, Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, Museum von SCHLOSS SCHÖNHAUSEN, Berlin, Germany.
Group exhibition – performance THE VYSHYVANKA and ZERO LINE, Woman in a time of war, Helsinki, Finland.
Group exhibition – series of photographs ASPHALT AS BASE.CONTEXTS, Ideal glass studio, New York, USA.
Group exhibition – video screening of performance Paragraph24, release PARIS LITUP magazine №11, Paris, France.
2023
Group exhibition – performance ZERO LINE, Myymala2 galery, Helsinki, Finland.
Solo exhibition – performance PARAGAPH24, Somos ARTS, Berlin, Germany.
2022
Solo exhibition – performance ZERO LINE, Nelimarkka-museo, Alajarvi, Finland.
Group exhibition – performance RED UTOPIA, «not-residency-but-art», Munich, Germany.
Solo exhibition – performance THE VYSHYVANKA, Festival Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
Solo photo exhibition – «The Last 4 day...