Mariko Gelman

Mariia Diordichuk (artist name Mariko Gelman).

The main subject of my constant research is a human being: the structure of a human psyche, it's capacity or incapacity of enduring frustration, defensive and compensatory mechanisms, implicit motives of social interactions.

Naum Ostashynsky art studio 1992-2000
Yuriy Khimich art classes 2002-2003
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture 2005-2010
Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (contemporary artist) 2015
Courses: MoMA Modern Art&Ideas (2018)

Group exhibitions:

2018: TOKYO INTERNATIONAL MINI PRINT TRIENNIAL, TAMA University, Tokyo, Japan.
2018: International Illustration Triennale, Haifa, Israel.
2018: “Ukrainian stillife" Modern Art Research Institute/Karas gallery, Kiev.
2018: Installation "Transparency", Kiev, Kiev History Museum
2018: “Grafika Roku", Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague, Czech republic.
2017: "I As Another", Wave collective, London, UK.
2017: Intervention with Alternative Advertising to Tate Modern, London.
2017: 6th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China.
2017: "Kyiv landscape", Museum of history of Kiev, Ukraine.
2016: "A4, Ballpoint", KARAS Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2016: Event Horizon, National Cultural-Art and Museum Complex “Arsenal', Kiev, Ukraine.
2016: International Biennale of Fashion Illustration “IMAGO”, gallery «XX? SPACE»;
2016: "Kyiv landscape", KARAS Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2015: “A4, Ballpoint", KARAS Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2014: "United Ukraine" The Cherkassy Museum of Arts, Cherkassy, Ukraine.
2012: International biennale of fashion illustrations IMAGO, Kiev, Ukraine.

Personal exhibitions:
2018: Japan: semitone, Kiev, The National Folk Decorative Art Museum
2016: EXPOSURE, Gallery "Off Greed", Fukus...