Maria Morina is an interdisciplinary artist based in St Petersburg. She works with a range of media from photography and video to documentary text. In her research and practice, Morina is broadly interested in art as a method for producing knowledge about the internal and external worlds. Her long-term projects often revolve around subjects such as space and power, and the process through which she chooses to explore them is usually collaborative. A winner of Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles and Prix Bayeux-Calvados Awards, she has shown her works at various galleries and museums in Russia and beyond.
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From Grozny: Nine Cities, 2009-2018. With Olga Kravets and Oksana Yushko. This cross-media project about the Chechnya capital included a book, a web-documentary, an exhibition, and a media installation
From Grozny: Nine Cities, 2009-2018. With Olga Kravets and Oksana Yushko. The project largely explored the aftermath of the Chechen wars in the region
From Grozny: Nine Cities, 2009-2018. With Olga Kravets and Oksana Yushko
The book Grozny: Nine Cities, 2018. With Olga Kravets and Oksana Yushko. UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD exhibition, State Hermitage, St Petersburg. Curator: Daniel Mayrit
The book Grozny: Nine Cities, 2018. With Olga Kravets and Oksana Yushko
Still from the multi-channel installation Tagil Youth (2011-2019). This project focuses on young people of the industrial city of Niznhy Tagil
Still from the multi-channel installation Tagil Youth (2011-2019)
Simple Songs, opera-installation, 2020-2021. Music: Marina Karpova, libretto: Maria Morina, sculpture: Ekaterina Sokolovskaya. Performance at the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, 2021. Photo: Maria Morina
Simple Songs, opera-installation, 2020-2021.Garage MCA, Moscow, 2021. Photo: Yuriy Palmin. The project is the first-everopera based on texts –– news and posts ––from social media
Simple Songs, opera-installation, 2020-2021.Garage MCA, Moscow, 2021. Photo: Yuriy Palmin. Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene exhibition. Curators: Iaroslav Volovod, Ekaterina Lazareva, Ekaterina Savchenko
Simple Songs, opera-installation, 2020-2021.Garage MCA, Moscow, 2021. Photo: Maria Morina
