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Artist Mariia Drozdova

Mariia Drozdova

Artist from Ukraine

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About the artist Mariia Drozdova

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I work in the following areas: painting, graphics, photography, collage, performance, installation. 2017-2020 – Teacher at the Step Computer Academy. Course in drawing, composition and art history. Kharkiv, Ukraine. I received a classical art education, but I also work in the field of contemporary art. My works are in collections in the following countries: Ukraine, USA, Ireland, England, Poland, Canada, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Czech Republic, Norway, Finland, in the collection of the Spazio-Tempo Arte Foundation Italy, the Museum of National History Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. Panevezys Civic Art Gallery. Panevezys, Lithuania.

Summary
  • Community member since January 20th, 2019
  • Kind of fine art:PaintingDrawing
  • Open to collaboration with curators and galleries
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Exhibitions

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2025 – Publication in the print, English-language magazine DACH [DAKH]. DACH MAGAZINE - Print magazine in English with contemporary Ukrainian prose, poetry, art, photography and music. First edition. Publisher: Victoria Spalek Magazine presentation on March 11, 2025 at the Cafe Kyiv event, Berlin, Germany. 2025 – Publication on the Wilson Center website. Article "Filling the Empty Spaces of My Consciousness" by Blair A. Ruble. As part of the project THE JOURNEY, the author of the project is writer and artist Enzo Comin. America, Washington https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/filling-empty-spaces-my-consciousness 2024 - Exhibition "Man and the City 2024. Contemporary Contexts." as part of the International Photography Biennale. Panevezys Civic Art Gallery. Panevezys, Lithuania. Publication in the catalogue. 2024 – Publication in the first printed edition of THE JOURNEY # 1 pp. 12-16, the author of the project is writer and artist Enzo Comin. Italy https://online.fliphtml5.com/rpabje/owtv/#p=13 2024 – Interview "My performance is a sacred ritual". The cycle of programs "Conversation in the Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art" season No. 3, for the Rayon.Culture channel. Interviewer: Svetlana Fedonyuk - author, presenter, director, cultural scientist from the Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0egPlki24 2023 - MSUMK ART FORUM "Cosmogony. Art. Noosphere. Ecology". Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, Ukraine. Speaker. The topic of the speech is "The influence of art, through inclusive practices, on the development of a conscious society, as the main component of the formation of the noosphere". https://www.facebook.com/maria.drozdova.9889/posts/pfbid0s8kW4obxhmMxwd9N8axhTFyC2FCRp3gM2D3oUSqk3es5T3QQuM1jmvky27BtGCAhl?mibextid=YxdKMJ 2023 - Lecture "The Sacred, Taboo and Stigma in Art". Performative weekend. Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, Ukraine. Curator: Ales Tomakh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyHjUj6UvtI 2023 - Performative weekend. Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, Ukraine. Performance "Prayer", art object. Curator: Ales Tomakh. https://www.visitlutsk.com/p-yat-styhij-u-muzeyi-korsakiv-provely-pershyj-performatyvnyj-vikend/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_aus5TazM 2023 – Publication in THE JOURNEY FANZINE. Article: “ART IN A THE FRONT-LINE CITY”. Author: writer and artist Enzo Comin. https://thejourneyzine.blogspot.com/2023/10/art-in-the-front-line-city.html#more https://thejourneyzine.blogspot.com/2023/10/arte-in-una-citta-sul-fronte.html 2023 – Fifth Festival of Contemporary Women’s Art. Exhibition “Allegory of Power”. Ukrainian Association of Women's Studies in Art UAFRA, with the support of the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv, Ukraine. 2 projects 2023- VI Open International Festival of Conceptual Photography. National Union of Art Photographers of Ukraine. Publication in the catalogue. Two single photographs and one diptych. Pp. 35, 37, 63 https://www.calameo.com/read/0002677808ab204510699?fbclid=IwAR1ua3PkIxxut-cO_BTiWZCFiKCUyBZMLr2cHu4Hzm6ccgaunVOmZ74jTLA 2023- Exhibition "Cosmogony of Meanings". Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. 2 projects. Curators: Viktor Korsak, Ales Tomakh. Lutsk, Ukraine. Publication in the catalogue "Cosmogony of Meanings". Pp. 68, section "Fire". 2022- Artisterium 15. Tbilisi International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Georgian-Ukrainian exhibition "Tomorrow". Curated by Viktoria Danelyan (Ukraine), Magda Guruli (Georgia). Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia. http://tomorrow.dream-projects.org/mariia_drozdova.html 2022 – Exhibition "MAKE ART NOT WAR" for peace in Ukraine, a call to stop the bombing, raising funds for charity. CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy. 2021 - Artist Talk: "Sacred performance: understanding symbols and codes from the position of the author and the viewer, how taboos affect the author's vision. Municipal Gallery. Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2021 – Performance "Washing the Roots", action "Performance Night", parallel program of the exhibition "NO TABOO. Update", dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the NON Stop Media festival, location VOVATANYA Gallery. Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2021 – Exhibition "NO TABOO. Update", dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the NON Stop Media festival, location Municipal Gallery and VOVATANYA Gallery. Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2021 - International art project #365daysafter, organized by M O K O N S H U. Partners: Garaža KAMBA Art Gallery, DE LICEIRAS 18 International Art Residency, Snarte Space Independent Institute of Contemporary Art, K A M S O M O L Creative Agency. http://mokonshu.art/en/artists-stories-en/mariia-drozdova-ukr/?fbclid=IwAR0D5R3i_786sO1W-HrCan2vI8mlfeqrWHEN82U_CgYDPGM-m66QOjB2wSU 2021 – Publication in MOST INFLUENTIAL ART Magazine, 6th edition, print issue dated June 10, 2021. 2021- NFT collage project 2021 – Publication on the Galphia portal https://www.galphia.com/artist_madr.html 2021 - Publication in the book Competition of Young Ukrainian Artists 2009-2021. Shcherbenko Art Center, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Page 142 2020 - Exhibition "Paraphrases of Albrecht Dürer", dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the twinning of Kharkov and Nuremberg and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the educational and cultural organization "House of Nuremberg". Curator - Ales Tomakh. With the support of the Goethe Institute. Kharkiv Art Museum. Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2020 – Publication in JaamZIN Creative magazine, issue 1, volume 3, January 2020. https://issuu.com/jaamzin/docs/jaamzin_creative_jan_2020 https://www.jaamzin.com/post/painter-drozdova-maria 2019 – Exhibition of finalists of the VI All-Ukrainian Competition of Contemporary Art named after Nathan Altman. Curator - Alexander Nikityuk. Vinnytsia, Ukraine. 2019 - Personal exhibition "Praeterita", Port.agency, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine. 2019 – Publication in the magazine "Business" (consultation for the article), edition - September 2019, no. 35-39. 2019 - Exhibition "ENTROPIA", MetaCulture. Organizer socl:e. With the support of: French Institute in Ukraine. Performance, object. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2018 – Carbonarium Festival, Carbon art space, Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 – Participation in AuctionFR, with the support of Galeria Sztuki STALOWA 2018 – Galeria Sztuki STALOWA, Warsaw, Poland, Auction XXXIII and pre-competition exhibition of contemporary art 2018 – New wave exhibition (New wave fast №3). Lviv, Ukraine 2017- Center for Media Communications and Visual Research. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. International Barcamp "Karazin Media Symposium". 2017- Festival "Days of Art Performance", gallery "Dziga", performance, Ukraine, Lviv. http://lvivartlab.com/events/mariia-drozdova/ 2017 - Passed the competitive selection of 14 participants for a portfolio review with Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, as part of the exhibition Christopher Makos: "The Era of Andy Warhol". Participant of the portfolio review. Cultural platform Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine. 2017 - Creation of an icon for the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God. Ukraine, Kharkov. The church collection includes 3 icons made by me. 2016 - Galeria Sztuki STALOWA, Warsaw, Poland, XXIII Auction and Pre-Competition Exhibition of Contemporary Art 2016 - Galeria Sztuki STALOWA, Warsaw, Poland, XXII Auction and Pre-Competition Exhibition of Contemporary Art 2015- MONA INNER SPACES, REZYDENCJA exhibition, 2 projects, video art, text, painting, collage. Poznan. Poland. 2015- "Ostatnia wieczerza" galeria Rotundra, UAP, Poznan. Poland. Performance, art objects. 2015-Up Gallery Berlin, project "Not-Aufnahme / Emergency Room" for 48 hours Neukölln. Performance. 2 Performances and 1 action. 2015 - Wystawa Końcoworoczna UAP. Pracownia Sztuki Performance UAP. Performance. Photo documentation. Curator: prof. Janusz Baldyga. Publication in the catalogue “Pracownia Sztuki Performance” 2014/2015. Poznan, Poland. 2015 - Checkpoint # 8, Plac Wolności, Poznan, Design Days. Performance. 2015 - Art Plainair. Skokie. Poland. Performance. Land art. Curator: prof. Janusz Baldyga. 2015 - The final stage of the exhibition of the competition “Brewer J.C. Jacobsen Portrait Prize”. Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. Video project “Foods of the Earth”. 2015 - Up Gallery Berlin exhibition “UNEASE”, Richardstrasse 43/44. Performance. Curator: prof. Janusz Baldyga. 2015 - Yermilov Center. Exhibition “Zero without a Stick”. Ukraine, Kharkov. 2015 - GAUDE POLONIA grant program. Curator, professor Janusz Baldyga. 2014 - Publication on the art portal cultprostir.ua "Art is watching you" by Irina Denisova 2014 - Kyiv. Art picnic of Slava Frolova. Pavilion 10 VDNKh. Exhibition "Golden rain above us". Curator - Nina Murashkina. 2014 - Publication in the magazine RETUNE 2014 - Spazio-Tempo Arte exhibition HUMAN RIGHTS? #MEMENTO FONDAZIONE OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI LARGO EUSEBIO IORI COLLE DI MIRAVALLE - ROVERETO TRENTO ITALY project "When the state begins to kill, it always calls itself the homeland" by Maria Drozdova Ukraine. Curator Roberto Ronca 2013 - publication in Kock magazin №5 2013 - Christmas Fair in Yermilov Center. Kharkov 2013 - Publication in the second edition of the print magazine "Irreversible Fleshyness" 2013 - Gallery "Dziga" Lviv. Project "Clouds. Invisible Crystals" curated by Volodko Kaufman 2012 - Institute of Contemporary Art, MUHI competition, Kyiv. Ukraine 2012 - Nominee of the sixth festival of youth projects NON STOP MEDIA "Foods of the Earth" 2012 - Days of apartment exhibitions "zero budget" of the project "Sincerity" 2012 - Internet gallery Winzavod 2011 - "Garden of Laughing Animals" within the framework of the festival of non-contemporary art "Human Factor in Action", gallery Kostyurinsky Lane, Kharkov; 2010 - Exhibition in the library of the Polytechnic University; 2009 - Volunteer teacher at the children's drawing competition "Kindness through the eyes of children" 2009 - StreetArt fest (painting on Nauki Avenue, 76) Kharkov. Ukraine 2009 - Gagarinfest. Kharkov. Ukraine 2008 - Exhibition "You have to pay for a horse" festival of expressive art "Palace", Kharkov, Ukraine, House of Actors. 2007 - "Road Home" Repin Art School No. 1, Kharkov; 2005 - Museum project "Artists of the Future", exhibition "Awakening", Kharkov Art Museum 2004 - "Your Corner" Repin Art School No. 1, Kharkov. Ukraine

Education

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2003-2007 Kharkiv Art College; Specialty - decorative and applied arts; Qualification - easel painting. Diploma with honors. 2007 - 2013 Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Department - fine arts. Faculty - monumental painting. Specialist-artist of monumental painting, teacher. Diploma with honors. 2009-2011 free listener in the courses of painting, graphics and composition in the studio of Vitaly Lenchin. 2015 - GAUDE POLONIA Scholarship Program. Curator, professor Janusz Bałdyga (prof. dr Janusz Bałdyga, prof. zw. UAP). Resident at the University of Arts in Poznan. Poland. 2015 - listener at lectures of professor Marcin Berdyszak (prof. dr hab. Marcin Berdyszak, prof. zw. UAP). GAUDE POLONIA scholarship program. Resident at the University of Arts in Poznan. Poland. 2016- Studied 2D graphics 2017- Performance School - Sandra Johnston and Alastair MacLennan, program - "Search for paths". Lviv, Ukraine 2019 - Art Marketing Course "How to promote your own cultural product". Based on the results of the course, participation in training on a competitive basis. Kharkov. Ukraine.

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