Entropy becomes visible in imperfection, fragility, impulsiveness of the material - the driving forces of chaos. Confrontation and coexistence of creation and destruction, idea and materiality, order and chaos generates an endless dance of life. These same principles underlie art as such.
I don't want to be limited to one medium, because my artistic practice is a never-ending search for the most suitable forms to communicate ideas. Art as the highest manifestation of human culture is woven into the fabric of life. It is born from progress and mistakes, from beauty and ugliness of society and nature. Art in human civilization is like growing flowers breaking through asphalt.
In the visual arts, the main motivation of the artist and the viewer is to establish mental contact through the so-called "internal dialogue", capturing what is sometimes impossible to convey in words. Art uses a non-verbal language - a subtle play of indirect statements, nuances, views and perspectives. In my opinion, the ability to capture this ephemeral “interspace” is the peak of the highest unification between people. I think this is what made me fall in love with art, and to achieve this unification was always the main motivation in my artistic practice.
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Drawing and Printmaking)
St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Book Art and Printmaking)
St. Petersburg Nicholas Roerichs School of Art (Painting)
Studies in the studio of the Siberian artist Vladimir Serebryakov
Luftgrenzen. KA32 Gallery, Berlin, DE
Body Alchemy. Haze Gallery, Berlin. DE
Archive of Upcoming, Altttttar, Konnekt Berlin, DE
Education
2016-2020
2013-2016
2010-2013
2008-2010
Exhibitions, scholarships, projects
2023
2023
2023
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Mariia Bokovnia (b. 1991, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a multimedia visual artist who lives and works in Moscow and Berlin. She grew up in the Far East of Russia in the town of Blagoveschensk on the border with China. After studying in a studio of the painter V. Serebryakov, she continued her education in illustration and painting in St. Petersburg. After moving to Germany for study in Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle her practice became much wider, and besides painting she currently works with installation, set design, video and sculpture.
In her work she creates surreal spaces through a combination of scenography and the existent room. Restriction of access and visibility are going as a red line through all her art. Her practice involves making rooms within a space, thereby exploring the idea of the threshold between outside and in, real-life and a stage. She uses the motif of a window and a still-life, whether animated, or as a physical objects, to talk about borders (both real and imaginary) between public and private life. She asks questions about what is real, what is constructed, what is idealized. Her atmospheric works are completed by the presence of their viewer, for whom the surroundings create a contemplative space. Her works are filled with poetry created at the intersection of reality and art. She has her art studio in Berlin, where she also grounded the art-collective ALTTTTTAR. Nowadays she is participating in and organizing exhibitions and other art projects both in Russia and Germany.
