Maria Lapteva

I work at the intersection of art and craft. My tables and sculptures are acts of functional abstraction—compositions that inhabit not only the wall but also the cadence of everyday life.

At the core of my practice are resin tubes—architectural modules through which I orchestrate rhythm, depth, and translucency. This visual language allows me to translate abstraction into matter, to stage a dialogue between the history of art and the immediacy of contemporary experience.

Each collection is a conversation with the masters of abstraction. From Pollock I inherit the energy of gesture, from Rothko the abyss of color, from Mondrian the rigor of structure. I do not quote them; I respond to them—asking what abstraction means today, when it can be not only seen but also touched.

My works blur the threshold between furniture and art. They are not mere surfaces for objects, but autonomous scores of light and color—living both in the intimacy of the home and the resonance of the gallery.

Two higher degrees: pedagogical - chemistry teacher and economics - finance credit

Exhibitions:
2023 "Extinction" Group Exhibition Apr-May 2023 Biafarin Online Exhibition, Canada
2023 ARTBOX.PROJECT NEW YORK 2.0 April 2023 New York/Manhattan
2023 Thomson Gallery, Switzerland
2023 CASA DEL ARTE Palma, Spain
2022 Festival of abstraction art Abstractum, Moscow
2022 "Careless movement as a beginning", Moscow
2022 Exhibition "Wow!", Gallery "Here on Taganka", Moscow
2022 2nd place in the International exhibition-competition of communicative art "MAN & WOMAN. TWO WORLDS"2022 International Abstraction Festival, Moscow
2022 International Abstraction Festival, Moscow
2022 - Art Russia Fair-2022, Moscow
2021 Russian Art Week, Moscow
2021 Forbidden Fruit Exhibition, Miami, USA
2021 Qatar International Arts Festival, Doha, Qatar
2021 Boomer gallery, «Vogue», London
2021 Fourth Annual International Exhibition “Still Life. Revival of the genre”, Moscow
2021 Exhibition "I am here and now", Moscow
2020 Abstraction / Red Gallery - Moscow
2021 Exhibition "Oil, Acrylic, Pastel", Moscow
2019 Russian Art Week 2019, Moscow
2019 2nd and 3nd place in the International exhibition "Russian Art Prize 2019", Moscow