1969, Shestakova

*1988

Europe

Shestakova

Maria

1969

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Exhibitions and Events

2024 | “Absolute Balance”, Kvartiras Gallery, ARTPLAY, Moscow

2023 | “Time to Create”, MAS Gallery, Novorossiysk

2023 | “Big Spring”, MAS Gallery, Novorossiysk

2021 | International Exhibition-Festival “Portrait of a Cat”, St. Petersburg

2018 | “Healthy Image”, ARTPLAY, Moscow

2018 | “La Revolucion”, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba

2017 | Christmas Exhibition, Cercio Cromatico Gallery, Genoa, Italy

2017 | FAKTURA Design Market, Ekaterinburg

2017 | “They are waiting for you”, Yekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art

2016 | ArtExpoSPb, LenExpo, St. Petersburg

2015 | “MUCH” Festival, Yekaterinburg Gallery of Contemporary Art

2014 | Eurasian Festival of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg

Brief Biography

Born in Nefteyugansk, a small town in Siberia, I was introduced to drawing by my father, who carried on the tradition taught to him by his own father. After completing art school, I pursued further education at the Ural Architectural and Art Academy in Yekaterinburg, where I launched my artistic career in 2012. My travels around the world and family ties in Germany, Ukraine, and Norway have profoundly shaped my perception of the world, instilling a sense of pacifism and expanding my horizons. Currently, I collaborate with a global audience from Anapa, a southern city where I continue to develop my artistic practice.

Brief Biography

Shestakova

Further Works of This Artist

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Personal Statement

Through parental experience, using psychoanalytic and social methods, the artist explores themes of human strength and weakness: sensuality, empotism, aggression, restraint and socially acceptable manifestations of these qualities.

In her work she looks for the possible influence of a person on children and the world around. She is interested in the questions of whether it is possible to cultivate conventional “strong traits” in oneself as an adult, how different they are, and whether it is possible to cultivate them in one’s children.

The artist, in search of her own language and the border between figurative painting and abstract brushwork, develops her technique with a palette knife while experimenting with others. She uses vivid and clear images and tries to convey her emotional attitude and the emotional state of the subject of the image through impulsive mosaic strokes and a color palette.