About

Marina Naprushkina is an interdisciplinary artist. She develops networks, structures, and spaces grounded in self-organization, working in both institutional and independent contexts.
In 2007, she founded the Office for Anti-Propaganda, a platform for critical examination of power relations and the violence embedded in nation-state structures. Naprushkina explores possibilities and forms of resiliency, feminist narratives, and care networks, informed by intersectional and feminist critique.

Working across media including painting, video, and text, she combines artistic research with long-term infrastructural work. Since 2013, she has been a co-founder of the initiative Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, dedicated to building solidaristic community among people with and without migration experience.

Together with Nadira Husain, Naprushkina formed a professorial duo at the Universität der Künste Berlin (2021–2024).

Naprushkina received the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture (2017) and the Sussmann Artist Award (2015). She has participated, among others, in Manifesta 16 (2026); Near East, Far West – Kyiv Biennial 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2025); the 7th Berlin Biennial (2011); and the 11th Istanbul International Biennial (2009).  Other recent exhibitions include: The Public Green, Kunstmuseum Bochum (2026); GemeinschaftUtopia. Recht auf Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2025); Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (2025); The Other – Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus Graz (2023); SURVIVAL KIT 13, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022); Statecraft, EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art (2022); In the beginning was the deed!, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok (2021); and …of bread, wine, cars, security and peace, Kunsthalle Wien (2020).

Public projects and initiatives:

Neue Nachbarschaft /Moabit (New Neighborhood/Moabit) an initiative and association that has been developing and implementing an interdisciplinary cultural program since 2013 – for and with people of all ages, with and without migration or refugee experience. It creates a space for artistic, social and political action.

Moabit Mountain College  brings academics and professional artists together with autodidacts and self-taught artists to make art and social engagement accessible to people from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds.

Refugees‘ Library an archive on courtroom sketches dedicated to asylum and migration politics.

Беларусь//Институт Будущего (Belarus//The Institute of the Future): series of lectures and workshops dedicated to politic, art and feminism, held by artists and activists in Minsk, Belarus (2011).