Mariia Gorbunova

Mariia has been active as artist since 2005. Her favorite techniques are abstract painting, collage and performance. In her works, she seeks to express feeling and emotion through colors, textures and collisions of various materials and objects. Mariia rarely creates two works using the same technique. Every new canvas is a venture into the unknown. However, the common feature of her works is the incredible emotional power.

Originally from Russia and currently based in Belgium, Mariia continues expanding the geography of her exhibitions and works in private collections. Mariia's works have been exhibited in Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, UK and Russia, and can be found in private collections as far as Chile.
I often turn to themes of memory, sensory experience, femininity and lost childhood, which I try to express in the form of abstract landscapes or imaginary spaces. For me, a landscape in abstraction has the same feeling of a place, only devoid of a narrative, a descriptive character. In a way, my works are containers of memory, described with the help of tangible texture, color, shape and movement.

1997 – 2002: Design and Art in Ural State Academy of Arts and Architecture;
2014 – 2015: Contemporary Art Practices in Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art, a branch of Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Youth exhibition “Communication”, exhibition hall of the Union of Artists, Tyumen, 2005
Regional reporting exhibition of the Union of Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Tyumen, 2006
Youth exhibition “Private Rooms” Museum of Fine Arts, Tyumen, 2007
Second regional exhibition "Young artists of the Urals",
Exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Russia, Chelyabinsk, 2008
Exhibition "Word as an occasion" dedicated to illustration, Montmartre gallery, Tyumen, 2009
Anniversary exhibition of the Tyumen Union of Artists, Museum of Fine Arts , Tyumen, 2009
Tomsk All-Russian Triale “Drawing of Russia”, Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk, 2010
Exhibition of the Union of Young Artists “Plus”, exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Tyumen, 2010
Youth exhibition Exhibition “Morning”, Museum of Fine Arts Arts Tyumen, 2010
Exhibition "Chekhov. Illusion and Reality ”, Museum of Fine Arts, Tyumen, 2010

2014, Moscow: Vnedrenie (Infiltration), performance @ Ground Khodynka Exhibition Hall
2015, Moscow: Artist's book, the book @ Prospect Library (by MMOMA)
2015, Moscow: Sub observationem, performance @ Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2016, Moscow: Anti-museum, performance @ Electromuseum
2016, Moscow: Psycho, artist’s book @ Centrum for C...