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marina naprushkina
born in Minsk
AWARDS
2017 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture
2015 Sussmann Artist Award
SCHOLARSHIPS
2018
Recherchestipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats
2013
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats
2012
Artists in Residence, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna
2010
ArtsLink Residencies Program, New York City, Chicago
Montehermoso, Art and Research, Vitoria-Gasteiz Araba, Spain
2007
Scholarship of the Schloss-Balmoral-Foundation North Rhine Westfalia, Germany
TEACHING
2021-2024 Gastprofessur für Malerei (teaching-Duo with Nadira Husain), Universität der Künste Berlin
2023 Professorial team WHW Akademija
2021-2022 Ludwig-Stiftungsprofessur für Druckgrafik, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2016 – 2021 Lehrauftrag *foundationClass, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 (upcoming)
Challenged Togetherness – herausgeforderte Gemeinschaft, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
GemeinschaftUtopia. Recht auf Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Encounters Biennial 2025, curated by Ana Janevski and Tevž Logar, Timișoara, Romania
2024
Die Verhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen, Kunstmuseum Bochum
The Kyiv Perennial
2023
5th Kyiv Biennial
Birds with the people, PSM, Berlin
Lost in Democracy, ACC Weimar
Planet, People, Care-It Spells Degrowth! Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU), Zagreb
The Other. Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus Graz
Beyond Home, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
When the Inconceivable Takes Form, Galerie – Cité internationale des arts, Paris
Sovereignty Reimagined. In solidarity with Ukraine (antiwarcoalition.art), Maenad Collective, NY
2022
Empowerment. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
SURVIVAL KIT 13, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga
Artistic Ecologies Every Day: Vlatka Horvat, Marina Naprushkina, Galerija nova, Zegreb
Statecraft. EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Chrysanthemen, Rosen, Astern, Gladiolen. HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
Corridor. Zemstvo Museum of Chisinau, Chisinau
2021
In the beginning was the deed!, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
Every day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Demokratie heute – Probleme der Repräsentation, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
Manifesto for Good Living, Salon Akademii, the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
A Secret Museum of the Workers Movement, kunstverein hoast, Vienna
2020
von Brot, Wein, Autos, Sicherheit und Frieden, Kunsthalle Wien
Keine Zeit für Kunst, Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
Fear, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Тhe economy of borders, facade of the City hall of Tiergarten, Berlin
Не/весёлые картинки 2020, KX Space, Brest
2019
Global National – Kunst zum Rechtspopulismus, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
back there, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
The City of Tomorrow, Art Belarus Gallery, Minsk
2018
The Neighbours, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The State Is Not A Work Of Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
We the People, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica
Beyond the Barricade, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent
PRA___BEL, Galeria Krynki, Fundacja Villa Sokrates ZBOR, Y gallery, Minsk
2017
Double Feature # 8, Tirana Art Lab Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana
The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv
6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Attention! Border – Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
A World Not Ours, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse
Universal Hospitality, MeetFactory, Prague Red Rijeka Assembly, Rijeka
2016
Asylum, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
Universal Hospitality, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
ZBOR. Belarusian art movement, Kyiv Agitprop! Brooklyn Museum, New York
2015
Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Reconstruction Disputes, Warsaw Under Construction 7, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
The School of Kyiv, biennale, Kyiv
Das ist nicht meine Geschichte! steirischer herbst 2015, rotor, Graz
ZBOR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok Post-Soviet Cassandras, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Refugees‘ Library, After the butcher, Berlin
The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders, Careof DOCVA, Milan
“T” as total resistance, SIZ Gallery, Rijeka
Artist Organizations International (AOI), HAU, Berlin
2014
Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Dear Art, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
«Феминистская (art) критика», Feminist (Art) Criticism, ЦЭХ, Minsk
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, Berlin
A Parallel Modernity. Soviet Architecture 1956-1991, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo
Außer/planmäßig – 50 Jahre Halle-Neustadt, Burg Galerie, Halle
Demokratie hat es nie gegeben. Eine Revue, gfk, Linz
Give Us The Future, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
2013
Women Commentators. The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
The Feminist Pencil – 2, Media Impact Festival, special project of the 5th Moscow Biennale, Moscow
Minsk: (Re)construction, Minsk Giving Form to the Impatience of Liberty, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Dear Art, calvert22, London Self-government: cultural evolution vs. revolution, Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odessa
Open City, Festival of Art in Public Spaces, Lublin 2013 Unrest of Form / Imagining the Political Subject, Wiener Festwochen, Secession, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Trespassing Modernities, SALT, Istanbul
Former West: Documents, Constellations, Prospects; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Living as Form, CCI Fabrika, co-organized by Creative Time and Independent Curators International, Moscow
2012
Dear Art, MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art / Moderna Gelerija Ljubljana
Drifting Identities, KSAK-Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau
How much Fascism?, curated by What, How and for Whom (WHW), BAK, Utrecht
Lost Utopia, Kunstihoone, Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn
West of East, Gallery for Contemporary Art “Ў“, Minsk
Steirischer Herbst
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Cultural Centre Mechelen
7th Berlin Biennale Self governing, Kalmar Konstmuseum (solo)
Bucharest Biennale 5
III Moscow Biennale for young art, Moscow
Beyond occupied images, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
The ontology of art-zero, plant Horizont, Minsk
Sound of Silence: Art during Dictatorship, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City
2011
Presently I have nothing to show and I am showing it!, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
Videoforum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
General Plan, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz City
A Journey to the East, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Kritische Masse, Oktogon, Art Academy Dresden
Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art, 4-th Moscow Biennial of contemporary art, Moscow
An art exhibition on Europe?, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
A Complicated Relation, Kalmar Konstmuseum
Drifting Station, Open Space, Vienna
Between Europe and Asia, Shiryaevo Biennale, Samara
2010
New Frankfurt Internationals, MMK Frankfurt / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M.
Visual Arts. New Practices, Gallery Ў, Minsk
Opening the Door? Belarus Art Today, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius
Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz
Is there any Hope for an Optimistic Art?, MMOMA, Moscow
Glob(E)Scape, 2. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Rückblicke, Polnisches Institut Berlin, berlin
What Happens to the Hole When the Cheese Is Gone?, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW When
One Has to Say “We: Art as the Practice of Solidarity”, European University, Saint Petersburg
2009
What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW
Red Thread, Tanas, Berlin, curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW
New Old Cold War, special project of 3rd Moscow Biennale
Office for Anti-Propaganda, Gallery Clages, Cologne
