Marina Wittemann (b. 1984, Moscow, Russia) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Germany, working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores how information shapes us — not only as thought, but as something physically absorbed and carried by the body. Working primarily with newspapers and wood, she transforms materials associated with memory, repetition, and emotional influence into paintings, vessels, and installations. Through layering, fragmentation, and tactile surfaces, her works investigate how information accumulates, settles, and becomes physical and emotional experience. Wittemann holds a BA (Honours) in Fine Art from The Open University / Open College of the Arts, UK.
EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
(S) Solo Show (G) Group Exhibition (AF) Art Fair
2026 LWL-Museum Henrichshütte, 14. Revierkunst, Hattingen, Germany (G)
Art Karlsruhe, one:artist show, Germany (EXOGallery, Stuttgart) (AF)
2025 Encounters. Matter and Meaning, with Eberhard Bitter, EXOGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (S)
Arrival, All Rights Reversed, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contemporary Trompe-l’œil. The Illusionists. Sensory Deception, EXOGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (G)
Text and Image, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Online Exhibition, curated by Caroline Goldstein (Artnet), New
York, USA (G)
Die Neuen, BBK Landesverband Saar (Bundesverband Bildender Künstler Saarland e.V.), Germany (G)
The Stage is Yours, EXOGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (G)
Shape of Feeling, Kunstmatrix, virtual exhibition (S)
Discover Art, HR Group, Pullman Berlin Schweizerhof, Germany (G)
Emerging Woman Artist Award Virtual Exhibition, Arts To Hearts Project (G)
ARTY SHOW Zürich, Switzerland (G)
Art Karlsruhe, Germany (EXOGallery, Stuttgart) (AF)
2024 Resonance, with Valo Valentino, EXOGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (S)
Affordable Art Market, Hamburg, Germany (AF)
Global Paper 6, City Museum Deggendorf, Germany (G)
Peter Gross Bau, St. Ingbert, Germany (G)
Art Karlsruhe, Germany (Hegemann Galerie, Munich) (AF)
Imagination, Hegemann Galerie, Munich, Germany (G)
2023 A Taste Of Synaesthesia, Oxo Tower Bargehouse, London, UK (G)
Feel the Space, Artscape Gallery, Luxembourg (S)
Art Karlsruhe, Germany (Hegemann Galerie, Munich) (AF)
New Perspectives, with Jürgen Fux, Hegemann Galerie, Munich, Germany (S)
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany (HazeGallery, Berlin) (AF)
Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (HazeGallery, Berlin) (AF)
Discovery Art Fair, Cologne, Germany (HazeGallery, Berlin) ) (AF)
Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium (HazeGallery, Berlin) ) (AF)
Shape of colour, HazeGallery, Berlin, Germany (S)
2021 Oblivion, virtual exhibition, The Holy Art, London, UK (G)
Artsy Mood, Boomer Gallery, UK (G)
2018 Love Hatred Separation Artree Space. Shanghai, China (G)
2017 Light and colour, General Consulate of the Russian Federation, Shanghai, China (S)
2016 48th annual Art Exhibition Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation – FAAP Sao Paulo, Brazil (G)
2014 Exhibitions of the summer practice and composition, Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, Russia (G)
NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
2022 Shortlisted Artist of the VAO UK & International Emerging Artist Awards 2022, Sculpture category
MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS
2025 Michael Beer, St. Ingberter Zeitung, Saarbrücker Zeitung, 12.Mai 2025, Wenn Krieg die Familienbande zerreißt (When war tears apart family ties), Seite C1
2024 St. Ingberter Zeitung, Saarbrücker Zeitung, 31 August/1 September 2024, Farbspiele laden zum Perspektivwechsel ein (Colour games invite you to change your perspective), Seite C3
2024 TOP Magazin, Saarland, Sommer 2024, Spannende Kunst-schau bei Peter Gross BAU (Exciting art show at Peter Gross BAU), p. 36-37
2024 Paper Global 6, City Museum and Crafts Museum of the Deggendorf City, International Paper Art Triennale 2024 Catalogue, Anja Fröhlich, Greta Butuci, p. 11, 18, 78
2024 Saarbrücker Zeitung, 16 April 2024, Erste Ausstellung im „Peter Gross Atrium“, Brigitte Quack, St. Ingberter Zeitung, p. C1
2024 OPUS. Das Kulturmagazin der Großregion, March/April 2024, Kunst und Business, Stefanie Zutter, p. 41
2022 Anton Dorso, Journey Through The Senses, Living Colour of Synaesthesia, 2022, p. 9
2022 PURPLEHAZE Magazine, Woman Issue 007, 2022, p. 233-235
2021 Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects Of Cognitive Activity In Science And Art, Editor-in-Chief: A.V.Sidoroff-Dorso, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, p. 52, 54
2020 Timo Wang, 5 Minutes with Marina Wittemann, Singulart Magazine, online
2018 ZhiShengHuo, 光的“表现”使者 (Light "performance" messenger),The Economist 1843, issue 37, 2018, p. 26-29
2018 Giuseppe Daddeo, Memories, A Shanghai Poetry Zine, 5th edition, 2018, p. 9
2017 Murilo Aquino “Conexão internacional” (Internacional connection), FAAP Magazine No 293, March + April2017, p. 27
2016 Annual FAAP Art Opens Doors on November 21, Vogue online Magazine
MEMBERSHIP (MITGLIEDSCHAFT)
GEDOK Frankfurt
BBK - Bundesverband Bildender Künstler Saarland e.V.