Ksenia Malurika
Interdisciplinary artist, painter, performer, curator
Based in Barcelona, Spain

BIO
Born in Siberia, Russia (1993). Repatriated to Israel in 2023, later - in Batumi, Georgia. Works across painting, performative and site-specific installation, video, scenography and curatorial practice. Her work focuses on states of presence and transition, the fragility of inner structures, memory and silence. Co-founder of the creative space Merapi house (Batumi, 2022). Active member of the art communities tmp_space and Particles. Since 2025 she has been a resident of a2galerie in Potsdam, Germany and collaborates with the gallery as her representative in Europe.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Her practice explores the intimate experience of being within space, time and body. She investigates presence as a fragile structure: always partial, shifting, ungraspable. Working with silence and pause, with embodied perception and memory, she asks what it means to be here - now - with others or alone. Through painting, performative actions and site-specific interventions she creates situations in which viewers are invited not only to look, but to stay, to listen and to share a common field of attention.

Selected exhibitions

2025
– Sabantuy, Tatar & Bashkir festival, Arsenali Hill, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Utopia, Ortachala Art Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Group exhibition, Make Creative Space, Batumi, Georgia

2024
– Rubezh, dead, IV International Instant Exhibition of Emigrant Art, Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Identity, Itaka Books, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Particles, Auditoria Booksbar, Tbilisi, Georgia
– End of summer fest, Loft 4, Batumi, Georgia
– White: The Beginning / The End, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Far From Home / vol.2, festival Human, Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Eco festival Ecology & Art, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia

2023
– Fragile Structure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Borders, online & offline exhibition, Machindgauri, Georgia
– Being Here: Particles, Art Laboratory, Machindgauri, Georgia
– Being Here: Particles, Tato Art Space, Bridge Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
– February, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Closure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia

2022
– Presence, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Old Batumi Market, kahaberi_showroom, Batumi, Georgia

2020
– Première Vision Paris, Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France

2019
– Poetic Petersburg, Igor Minakov Award, Raphael Hall, Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014
– Retrospective Exhibition of Student Works, City Center of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia

2013
– Interregional Youth Exhibition Young Siberia, International Exhibition Center Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, nomination “unique graphics” and “easel painting” (as Ksenia Mikhailova)
– Az Esm, Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo, Russia

2012
– February, Exhibition Hall of the Art School, Novosibirsk, Russia
– Meanings, Creative Student Exhibition, Academic Library, Novosibirsk, Russia

Solo exhibitions
2022 – Blue Dress, Merapi House, Batumi, Georgia
2021 – Dreams, Massolite Bar, Moscow, Russia
2020 – Colorization, Ubud, Indonesia

Curatorial projects
2023 – Closure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2022 – Presence, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2019–2020 – Performances art project Colorization, Bali, Indonesia

Valeriia Burliuk
(1993, Moscow, Russia)
Spatial visual artist
Based in London, UK 

Bio

Valeriia Burliuk is a spatial visual artist working at the intersection of photography, installation and bioart. Trained in art, design and performance in Moscow, she gradually moved towards expanded spatial practices in which images become objects and environments. In 2022–2023 she was a fellowship researcher and visiting artist at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She currently lives and works between Berlin, Valencia and London, developing projects that connect artistic intuition with research-based approaches.

Artist statement

For Valeriia, space is the primary medium. It is something that breathes, responds, and draws the viewer into a whole-body experience. Her practice is structured as work with the environment: from photographic series that grow into installative objects, to bioart projects where materiality and scientific processes become a language of expression.

Her background in research and education (including her fellowship at Bauhaus University) brings precision and methodology to her work, while her poetic and physical approach opens this structure to sensorial experience. In her photographic and installation projects, as well as in her exhibition designs, space functions as an organism in which sound, light, texture, temperature and rhythm interact, creating a soft, tactile field of attention that gently leads the viewer toward clarity.

Education and membership in professional organisations

2022–2023 – Fellowship researcher / visiting artist, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2020–2021 – Contemporary photography, Photoplay, Moscow, Russia
2019–2020 – Plastic Theatre Laboratory, Gogol School, Moscow, Russia
2013–2016 – British Higher School of Art and Design, Art and Design / Motion Design, Moscow, Russia
2008–2012 – Moscow State Academic Art School in Memory of 1905, Design (in the field of culture and arts), Moscow, Russia
2003–2008 – S. T. Richter School of Art, Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Cooperation with galleries

Science 2022 -  Bizar, Moscow, Russia
Science 2025 - A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany

Publications

2025
– Artists to watch 2024–2025, Pale Space Gallery, New York, USA

2024
– Snob: member of the expert jury for the interdisciplinary competition Yandex Plus × Universal University, speaker at public talks

2023
– Bl8D | Vol.2 (Link)
– Al-Tiba9, International Art Magazine ISSUE13 | Print Magazine

2022
– Bl8D | Vol.1, photographic work for main sections

2020
– Mob Journal, International Photography Magazine
– Swiss Art Competition "February 2021", HelvetArt, Switzerland

Personal exhibitions

2023
– A Tale of Wandering, solo exhibition, M BOOKS Gallery, Weimar, Germany (28 September – 14 October)

Group exhibitions

2025
– Bodylandscapes in 2 acts, exhibition with Ksenia Malurika and Rina-Green Noodle, curated by Anna Galeeva, TAKT Berlin, Kopenhagener Str. 31b, 10437 Berlin, Germany; funded by Berlin Senat, Culture Department of Pankow district
– Chronicles of Intimacy, group exhibition, 5 Broad Street, Margate, UK (Link)

2023
– Illuminating the Beauty of Science, group exhibition, Kunstmatrix, Berlin, Germany (6–26 May) (Link)
– Hidden Flames, group exhibition, Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany (9–18 February) (Link)

2021
– Contemporary Photography, group exhibition, Photoplay, Moscow, Russia 

2019
– The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100, group exhibition, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (28 June – 1 December)
– The starting point is the forest, group exhibition, Bitsevsky Park, Moscow, Russia (22 June)
– Catalog of Mountains and Seas, group exhibition, NOL Art Space, Moscow, Russia (8–9 July)

Collections
Works are held in private collections in Russia and Germany.

Rina-Green Noodle
(Irina Sinichkina)
(1970, Moscow, Russia)
Textile artist

Bio

Rina-Green Noodle creates textile works filled with stories, meanings and care for the world. Her pieces grow out of recycled materials, old clothes and fabrics that have already lived a long life. In her carpet-paintings and soft sculptures, emotions, memories and traces of time are held and woven together.

She calls herself a “trash artist”, seeing discarded things as carriers of life that are ready for a new form. The “Noodle” in her artist name comes from the process itself: small fragments of fabric twist and gather into a continuous flow of lines and textures, reminiscent of streams of noodles.

Artist statement

The practice of Rina-Green Noodle emerges from slow, tactile work with material. Textile becomes a field where everyday history, previous uses and personal memories are transformed into new images. Each strip of fabric acts as a stitch in a larger narrative that does not impose a storyline, but invites the viewer to read traces of time, movement and touch.

Working with recycled materials turns into both an ecological and emotional gesture. Her carpets and soft sculptures generate a sense of shelter and care, holding together vulnerability and resilience. The works exist as independent objects and at the same time as fragments of a larger textile world, where attention to “small” things opens space for new stories and ways of being together.

Education and membership in professional organisations

since 2025 – Member of the worldwide creative association European Textile Network
since 2016 – Professional artistic practice based on a reinterpreted American rug hooking technique
since 2016 – Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, decorative and applied arts section
2010–2012 – Studied in the studio of artist Vasily Florensky
1993–1998 – Institute of Contemporary Art (ISI), Journalism Studio, degree “Journalist, editor of television programs”, Moscow, Russia

Cooperation with galleries

since 2025 – A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany
since 2024 – Zotov Center, Moscow, Russia
since 2023 – GRAUD Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
since 2021 – TEXTURA Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Publications

April 2025 – Textile Art Magazine. Interview with Russian textile artist Irina Sinichkina (Rina Green Noodle) (link)

2024 – YouTube. Video: “Rina Green Noodle. Textile art.”
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9UjWL6_CY (accessed 14.05.2025)

June 2022 – Newspaper Zvezdny Boulevard, article “Portrait of Mozart made of crepe de chine”, No.19 (2022). PDF version available online (link)

Solo exhibitions

2025
– Magadan: Beyond the Myths, cultural and exhibition center Rynda, Magadan (16 April – 31 July)
 Publication about the exhibition in The Art Newspaper
– Nails Salon Needlework Show, solo project, New York, USA (03 – 26 April)
 Publication about the opening on the institution’s Instagram

2024
– Archaeology of Sleep, House of Writers’ Creativity, Peredelkino, Moscow region (01 – 30 November)
– Atlas of Dreams, solo exhibition at the patchwork and quilting festival Soul of Russia, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow (07 – 16 June). Video report from the festival
– Moon in Pisces, solo exhibition, CCI Fabrika, Textura gallery, Moscow (06 – 24 March)

2023
– Vegetables, Par nik gallery, Arkhangelsk (12 – 21 May)
– 0.0. Zero Waste Art and Design, Krasnokholmskaya gallery, Moscow (July – 15 October)

2022
– Waiting, Thursday Foundation for Cultural Projects, Moscow (28 November – 15 December)
– Morally Obsolete, Izmailovo gallery, Moscow (02 – 26 June)
– Residency exhibition, online gallery Textura, Moscow (21 April – 01 May)

2021–2022
– Diamonds Ripened in the Sky, solo exhibition, NordWestArtSpace gallery, Saint Petersburg (22 December – 04 January)
– Heroes of a Neighbouring Cosmos, solo exhibition, Museum of Russian Lubok and Naïve Art, Moscow (27 January – 28 March)

Group exhibitions and projects

2021–2022
– Atmosphere Similar to My Salad, group exhibition, Saratov (19 December – 16 January)

2021
– Reflection in Water, international exhibition, State Museum-Reserve Izborsk (02 July – 06 September)
– Annual exhibition of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Moscow (04 – 23 March)

2022
– Museum of Friends of Savva Yamshchikov, State Museum-Monument St Isaac’s Cathedral, Petrozavodsk (17 March – 10 April)

Collections

State Museum of Russian Lubok and Naïve Art, Moscow
A. E. Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
State Museum-Reserve Izborsk
Private gallery Textura, Moscow
Private Museum of Friends of Savva Yamshchikov
Private collections in Russia, Germany and France

Nano Nasty 

multidisciplinary artist,
founder of the creative brand Nano Nasty
b. 1994, Moscow
Lives and works in Spain

Nano Nasty is a multidisciplinary artist. She has been in art for more than fifteen years, and for the past three years has been building a visual language around a pair of colors — red and blue. For her, this is not just a palette but a system of coordinates inspired by Freud’s psychoanalysis and the ways the subconscious, desire, and memory shape inner worlds.

Since childhood, she has been shaped by the imagery of Dalí, Bosch, Miyazaki, as well as the absurdity and plasticity of Soviet animation — The Blue Puppy and Garri Bardin’s Little Red Riding Hood. This visual absurdity and play with stereotypes continue to nourish her intuition. She increasingly turns her attention to people’s inner states, the nuances of feelings, transitions, and shades. Her work emerges at the intersection of gesture, matter, and mood. She is drawn to corporeality, memory, natural rhythms, and sensual receptivity. Waves, cracks, porous surfaces become elements of her language. For her, intuition is the ability to hear space and move with its rhythm.

Spiritual and bodily practices support her inner balance and become a continuation of the artistic process.

Education
2017 – MFA Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2015 – BA (Hons) Art Direction and Styling, Istituto Marangoni, London, UK
2012 – Environmental Design, Stroganov State University of Art and Industry, Moscow, Russia

Galleries and platforms
Since 2025 – Resident at A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany. link
Since 2023 – Resident of the online gallery platform Bizar, Moscow, Russia. link

Ongoing projects
Nano Nasty Box (since 2024)
Online project and cyanotype art kit that combines material experimentation, participatory practices and artistic alchemy. The project involves the viewer in the creation of images through working with light-sensitive solutions and sunlight. nanonastybox.ru

Nano Nasty (since 2022)
Personal online gallery and art boutique where the artist offers commissioned paintings and sculptural works with a focus on sensuality. The project’s style is expressive, intuitive and enigmatic: each work tells its own story and is created from the artist’s emotional and aesthetic impulse. nanonasty.ru

Selected exhibitions

2025 – Bodylandscapes in 2 acts, exhibition with Ksenia Malurika and Valeriia Burliuk, curated by Anna Galeeva, TAKT Berlin, Kopenhagener Str. 31b, 10437 Berlin, Germany; funded by Berlin Senat, Culture Department of Pankow district

2025 – Neighborhood Art Club, public project, Moscow, Russia – project artist; created a series of site-specific objects integrated into the environment.

2023 – Urban Alchemy, Matadero, Madrid, Spain — part of a group of artists exploring the symbolism and memory of materials; presented a series of objects Material Alchemies.

2022 – New Coordinates, Contemporary Art Space, Berlin, Germany — presentation of the series Red and Blue Chronicles, working with a system of subconscious coordinates.

2021 – Tactile Abstractions, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany — solo exhibition of relief canvases where touch becomes a medium.

2019 – Echoes of Matter, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria — exploration of the memory of matter in a collaborative project with local artists.

2018 – Bombay Beach Biennale, Salton Sea, USA — presented a series of sculptural objects made of cement, metal and pigments as a metaphor for temporality and decay; directed a performance piece.

2018 – That That Gallery, Los Angeles, USA — group exhibition, presented sculptural mixed-media works.

2017 – COMFOTSTRICTIONS, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA — spatial installation exploring the limits of corporeality.

2017 – MFA SFAI Show, Old Mint, San Francisco, USA — final MFA exhibition, series of works at the intersection of sculpture and performance.

2016 – Textale, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA — installation made of fabric, cement and pigments, exploring the interaction between the organic and the artificial.

2016 – The Everyday and the Epic, Travelling Show, New York / Helsinki / Milan — international group exhibition; presented a series of objects on everyday life as epic.

2015 – Marine Influences on Fashion Industry, Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia — object-based works inspired by the marine environment and its influence on fashion.

2014 – Now and Then, Print House Gallery, London, UK — exhibition of emerging artists; series of paintings about memory and time.