BIO
Masha Ivanova works at the intersection of new media arts, internet art, installations, and research. Her practice includes work with objects, painting, photos, and video Masha has diplomas from Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria (2020); Course User Experience Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA(2018), INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Moscow, Russia(2015); Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. Surikov (2012); Moscow State University of Culture (2006). Masha participated in Assemblage points, Peschanaya gallery, Moscow, Russia, parallel program of the 8th Moscow Biennale(2019-2020); Just shadows in the cave, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea; EMINENT DOMAIN, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA (2018); Objectified 2018, Tsong Institute of Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea (2018) • Chrom-art, OXO Tower, London, UK (2017); Modern Mosaics of Moscow, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia (2017).
Masha Ivanova is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia (2013), UNESCO (2018), and YRA! (Young Russian art curators community) (2020) Masha is an ideologist and one of the organizers of the Fem art festival -KA, summer 2019 Center of Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia She participated in public artist talks mostly about aspects of feminism in contemporary art and a round table “Prospective steps of a creative center in order to unleash artists creativities”, GCC, South Korea. Masha was also invited to collaborate with film companies as an artist consultant: Black Rest episodic stream, HBO (USA), 2018; Smile, music video Jay-Z, SMUGGLER (USA), 2017. The smile was the winner of two Grand Prix awarded by Cannes Lions in the category of Entertainment Lions for Music.
Research interests
I work with the problem of the interaction of body and space in the modern media environment. One of the greatest interests of my artistic research is epistemological issues related to the human and the non-human. Our contemporary culture provides us with models of the society through images. In my artistic studies, the human body always becomes more than a rhetorical figure. It concentrates on accents that go beyond the fictitious representation of reality and the widespread body image as the carrier of basic characteristics of perception (gender, sexual orientation, nationality).
The biological body becomes dependent on the images of bodies produced by technical devices, and the bodily practices carried out by a person in his daily life are actualized as instrumental and communication skills only to the extent that the media broadcast and accentuate their use. In this sense, the human body is a paradoxical object, which, despite belonging to nature, acquires its completed image in the symbolization models provided by the media.
I am interested in the corporeality of consciousness, the fundamental dependence of the structures of subjectivity on the bodily constitution,
understanding the diverse forms of a person’s relationship to themselves, to another, to the world.
The total impact of information and communication technologies on the daily life of a person leads to a change in the understanding and experience of a person with their own body. And all this is due to the fact that “all this belonged to us.” In this contexts, I’m mixing archaic and contemporary.
Involvement in the feminist discourse is important for me.
On practice
I’m mixing high art and low art in my works. For me it is important to change the accents, shifting emphasis, overall values. I’m building a context based on a cross-disciplinary approach to reflect the modern world. I work in different media from video art to installations, sculptures, painting. An important part of my artistic practice is direct and literal quoting of the urban environment surrounding me. I work a lot with the archetypes of modernist visuality, interpreting them through the aesthetics of minimalism. I use “pieces of streets” in my works: marble, granite, asphalt, natural pigments, glass, gypsum, concrete, clay.
Graduate:
2020 - Salzburg International Summeracademy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2018 - Introduction to User Experience Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2015- ICA, Moscow (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART)
2012 -Moscow State Academic Institute named V.Surikov. class professors Eugenii Maximov and Ivan Lubennikov
Awards and grants:
2020 - grant to attend the course „Albatross on the Fortress” at the Summer Academy, under the direction of Noële Ody / Toni Schmale, Salzburg, Austria
2020 - One of the 3 shortlisted artists of Ongoing AIR AWARD, Tokyo, Japan
2013 - 15 - 2019 - Laureate of grant for young artist of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation
2019 - One of the 10 semifinalists of open call Alternative Loop Space, Seoul, South Korea.
2018 - 2019 - won participation in the residence Open Studios, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2017 - finalist, #TRIBE17, Chrom-art, OXO Tower, London, UK
2017 - finalist, IV KAZAN INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING BIENNALE “RIDER”, The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
2015-2016 - finalist, Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Works are in the permanent collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Collaboration:
2020 - artist, Esquire magazine, Moscow, Russia
2018 - artist consultant, “Black rest” episodic stream, HBO
2017 - artist consultant, Smuggler, “Smile” music video Jay-Z Link
Residence:
2019 - Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea
2019 - Cite des Arts, Paris, France
2018 - Open Studios, CCA WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2012 - The residence of the Russian Union of Artists Vyshny Volochyok, Russia
2011 - Castello di Boca, Kotor, Montenegro
Open talks, conferences:
2020 - DOCA-talk, festival DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART, IGUMO, Moscow, Russia
2020 - open talk Visual identity codes, Assemblage points, Peschanaya gallery, Moscow, Russia, parallel program of the 8th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, (RU)
2019 - round table Prospective steps of a creative center in order to unleash artists creativities, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea
2019 - open talk Endless need or need of the Infinite, Library 118, Moscow, Russia
2019 - public talk with artist Masha Ivanova and creators of the feminist project Female Voice,
art residency Open Studios, CCA WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2019 - public talk with artist Masha Ivanova and creators of the feminist project Female Voice,
art fem fest -KA, CCA WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
Author’s courses:
2020 - course NEW MEDIA IN CONTEMPORARY ART, 25 Kadr gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 - 2021- course FREEDOM AS A CREATIVE RESOURCE, festival DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, Moscow, Russia
Member of the Union of Artists of Russia (2013), UNESCO(2018), and Yra! (Young Russian art curators community)(2020).
Solo exhibition:
2021 - INTER-CLOSENESS, 25Kadr gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Just shadows in the cave, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea (with artist Ying-Tin, Taiwan)
2019 - Body-chromakey, Cite des Arts, Paris, France
2018 - Elementary event space, Maxim Boxer gallery, Moscow, Russia (with artist A. Levina, Russia)
2015 - Antinomy, gallery “Open club”, Moscow, Russia
Selected exhibitions:
2021 - Art festival THE DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART, IGUMO, Moscow, Russia
2021 - FREEDOM, Moscow Union of Monumental Artists, Moscow, Russia
2020 - TemperatYRA, gallery Electrozavod, Moscow, Russia
2020 - FREEDOM / NONFREEDOM, OBDN.ru jointly with RBC Style, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Charity auction #Art4Belarus, AROUNDART.ORG, Russia
2020 - #60daysoflockdown, Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2020 - Artist Support Pledge, Beers gallery, London, UK
2019 - 2020 - Assemblage points, Peschanaya gallery, Moscow, Russia, parallel program of the 8th Moscow Biennale
2019 - Fragility, Artis Gallery, WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Crumple. Prick. Cook. Pouring., Museum Integration, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Mutatio, Library on Argunovskaya, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Endless need or need of the Infinite, Library 118, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Can you feel like women, Cite des Arts, Paris, France
2019 - DOCA, THE DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART, IGUMO, Moscow, Russia
2019 - MUTATIO, PinkGrid, Library Argunovskay, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Common dinner, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2019 - ART-BCE, PROUN gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 - Elementary event space, Maxim Boxer gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 - Monumental art of MMXVIII, Flacon art center, Moscow, Russia
2018 - TheArtPrize, Artwork Entry, online exhibition, London, UK
2018 - EMINENT DOMAIN, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2018 - Swaddling, bandaging, wrapping in art, Mikhail Chemakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 - Objectified 2018, CICA, Museum of Contemporary Art Institute Tsong, South Korea
2017 - IV KAZAN INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING BIENNALE “RIDER”, The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
2017 - Chrom-art, OXO Tower, London, UK
2017 - SESSION_1, Gallery of Contemporary Art Center Mars, Moscow, Russia
2017 - Modern Mosaics of Moscow, The State Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2017 - DOCA, THE DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART, IGUMO, Moscow, Russia
2016 – Exhibition “How should look like a modern landscape?”, gallery “WORDSHOP”, Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Art and Music festival “FORMA”, urban culture center “Pravda”, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Specters, Barba gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015-2016 - “Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial Exhibition”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2015 - “The monumental graphics”, Moscow Union of Monumental Artists, Moscow, Russia
2015 - Auction “Most”, Krasnodar, Russia
2015 - Art-market “Sorry, but that's not all!“, Echo14, Moscow, Russia
2015 - The safeness, ICA, Moscow, Russia
2015 - Young artists section of monumental-decorative art, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow Finance Academy of Law, Moscow, Russia
2014 - Exhibition "Time Ahead" in the "Central House of the Artist", Moscow, Russia
2013 - Salon in the Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
2012 - Heirs of the Great Masters, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
2012 - Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2011 - International Salon "Montenegro", Kotor, Montenegro
2010 - Artists Union of Russia, Russian Young Artists, Moscow, Russia
2008 - 2009- Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
2007 - Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2005 - The graphics in fashion. From Slava Zaitsev to the present., gallery TXT, Moscow, Russia