MARIA SAFRONOVA
Maria Safronova was born in 1979 in the city of Rzhev, Tver region. In 2003 she graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, in 2011 - the Institute of Contemporary Art and the School of Contemporary Art «Free Workshops». She became the scholar of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in 2003.
Included in the Top 100 recognized artists of Russia according to InArt.
In 2017, 2018 included in the Russian investment art rating 49ART, representing outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50 years.
2012 - Finalist of Kandinsky Prize, 2014,2017 - nominee
2016 - Curator’s Choice at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts annual summer auction 2016, Boston, MA, USA
2015 - Winner of Sergey Kurekhin Prize in the nomination “For the Best Work of Visual Art”.
The works of Maria Safronova are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), the Erarta Museum and Gallery of contemporary art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center (St. Petersburg, Russia), The Museum of Chinese Women and Children (Beijing, China), as well as in a variety of private collections in Russia and abroad.
Personal exhibition:
2018 - “Experimental field” Gallery 21, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 - “Tour of Duty” VLADEY, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 - “Past & Present” HausOf Culture, Rzew
2016 - “Total Pivate“ MMOMA, Moscow
2015 - “The Game of General View” Triumph Gallery,Moscow
2015 - “SUBTITRES” Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, parallel program of the
6th Moscow Biennale of Modern Art ,Moscow
2013 - “Daily Routine”, MMOMA ,Moscow
2011 - “Habitat“ , Museum Erarta, Sankt- Peterburg
Selected exchibition:
2018 - “R_E_Volution” Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2018 - “Russia. Realism. XXI century » Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
2018 - Second Novosibirsk International Triennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2018 - "The Noise of Time" -National Gallery of Komi, Syktyvkar
2018 - “18 +/- voluntary self – discipline” Museum of Moscow
2018 - “At the edges“ VDNH, Pavilion «Optics» Moscow
2018 - “Disciplinary spaces” Museum Erarta, Sankt- Peterburg
2018 - “Сarefully Kids!” The Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries) , Sankt- Peterburg
2018 - “Perfect age” Special project «Focus» of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, MOMMA, Moscow
2017 - “Breugel. Inverted world” Artplay, Moscow “The satellite over Monchegorsk”MOMMA,
The Center of Culture, Monchegorsk
2016 - Curator’s Choice” Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, U,S.A.,)
2016 - “Look at this world” The Museum of Chinese Women and Children ,Beijing, China
2016 - “19/92 From the Beginning”, MMOMA, Moscow, Sergey Kurekhin Prize (2015)
Sergey Kurekhin Center for Modern Art, St. Petersburg
2015 - “New Narrators in Russian Art of the 20th – 21st century”, Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg)
2014 - “Don’t you know who I am?”, M NKA Museum van HedendaagseKunst ,Antwerp, Belgium
2014 - “Exhibition of the Nominees for Kandinsky Prize”, “Udarnik” cinema house Moscow
2013 - “The Study of Researches”, MMOMA Moscow
2012 - “The Rejected Reality” Artplay, parallel project of the 3rd Biennale of Young Art Moscow
2012 - “Unfinished Analysis”, strategic project of the 3rd Biennale of Young Art Moscow
2012 - "The Rejected Reality" Artplay parallel project 3rd Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 - "Inconclusive analysis" strategic project - third of the Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 - "Friend or foe" Project Factory , a parallel project 3rd Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 - "Student Art Promt" Artplay Moscow
2012 - "Today / Tomorrow" MMoMA , Moscow
2011 - "Mapping the possible" Central House of Artists Moscow
2011 - "Impossible Community" MMoMA Moscow
2010 - "On the contrary " Winzavod,Moscow Moscow