Marina Klimanova

In my artistic practice, I act as a pioneer of psycho-digital expressionism—a new vector in art history that explores the tectonic shifts within the 21st-century human psyche. Operating on the borderline between tangible physical reality and the elusive virtual world, I create material portals into the digital era, where century-old psychological expressionism is reborn under the pressure of algorithms.

While the classical expressionists of the past century captured the traumas of the industrial age through the distortion of color and form, I manifest the digital deformation of the human subconscious. My primary medium and co-author is wood—an archaic, living material endowed with its own memory and history. I deliberately subject its warm texture to the cold logic of technology, forcing the wooden grain to imitate pixel grids, glitches, and system crashes. It is within this collision that the visual code of mental burnout, anxiety, and the inner insights of a human trapped inside gadgets is born.

My method lies in the monumentalization of ephemeral digital folklore and the hidden triggers of the mind. By confronting the natural flow of annual tree rings with the synthetic geometry of screens, I generate a hybrid plastic langua...

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.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2015 — "Without a Roof" ("Bez kryshi"). A joint project by writer and Hegumen Paisiy (Savosin) and Marina Klimanova. GBUK RO "Gorky Library," Ryazan.


2012 — "Painting." Artrum Gallery, Ryazan.


2009 — "Painting." Pod Svodami Gallery, Ryazan.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2026 — "A Commonwealth of Colors and Forms: From Ryazan to Kazan." A. M. Gorky and F. I. Chaliapin Museum, National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan.


2026 — 5th "Conceived and Made in Russia" Biennial. Longlist, installation "Wolf." All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow.


2026 — "The Person Behind the Painting." A3 Gallery, Moscow.


2026 — "The City: Digital Screen." Online exhibition "Global City." Digital art. HSE ART GALLERY and the MEDIIIA platform, HSE School of Design, Moscow.


2026 — "ERZYA.ART." Exhibition project marking the 150th anniversary of Stepan Erzya. S. D. Erzya Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts, Saransk.


2026 — 8th "Parallels" Contemporary Art Festival. Project: "I Am Who I Am." Photodom Museum and Exhibition Center, Ryazan State Regional Art Museum. I. P. Pozhalostin Ryazan State Regional Art Museum, Ryazan.


2026 — "Let’s Go!" ("Poyekhali!"). I. P. Pozhalostin Ryazan State Regional Art Mu...