Marina Klimanova

ARTIST STATEMENT
I explore the borderland between tangible physical reality and the elusive digital world. I am the founder of the digital expressionism movement in wood, a wooden digital artistic style born at the intersection of conceptual oxymoron, archaic matter, and virtual code. At the core of my practice lies the clash of material warmth and digital noise. As my main medium, I deliberately choose wood — a living, tectonic material with its own memory and history. I subordinate its natural texture to the cold logic of modern technologies, forcing wood to imitate glitches (matrix errors), pixel grids, system glitches, and gadget screens.
My creative method is to translate ephemeral digital folklore (simulacra and bugs) into a monumental physical object. By transferring the visual markers of the era onto wood, I create a new hybrid language of plastic interaction. Here, the natural pattern of annual rings collides with the artificial geometry of pixels, forcing the viewer to rethink the concepts of “real” and “virtual.” My interior installations are not just a deconstruction of form. They are a fixation of the trauma and aesthetics of the digital environment through organic material. My digital expressionism humanizes the techn...

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2020.
2002-2008 St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry Department of Monumental Painting. Specialty is a designer artist.
1997-2002 Ryazan Art College named after Wagner's specialty is an artist and teacher.

Exhibitions
Personal
2021- Expressionism. At the old intersection.
2015 - Roofless. GBUK RO "Library named afterGorky”
2012 – Painting. Artrum Gallery.
Group exhibitions
2026 - "ERZYA-ART. Exhibition project dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Stepan Erzi" Erzi Museum
2026 - "Gods" BOGI Gallery St. Petersburg.
2026 - “Let's go!" Ryazan State Art Museum named after I.P. Zhalostin.
2026 - The man behind the painting. A3 Gallery. Moscow
2025 - Visual Predictions 2026 — exhibition of contemporary art and images of the future NODOUBT GALLERY. Moscow
2025 - Yesenin Street. Department of the Ryazan Art Museum named after I.P. Zhalostin.
2020 - “A look into the future” Museum of the History of the Youth Movement. Ryazan
2016 - “70 years of the Department of Monumental and Decorative painting” SPbGHPA St. Petersburg