About the artist
Marina Wittemann is a multidisciplinary artist based in Germany. Her work explores how information shapes belief, not only as ideas, but as something we physically carry in our bodies.
She works primarily with newspapers and wood. Newspapers represent information: facts mixed with distortion, repetition, and emotional appeal. Wood enters her work as a personal material, connected to childhood memory and the body. Through crumpling, layering, painting, and assembling, she transforms these materials into wall objects, vessels, and paintings.
Her practice moves through three related states.
First, information as surface: beauty, seduction, and order. Here, repetition, simplification, and aesthetic control mirror the mechanisms of propaganda, how beauty can lower resistance and quiet critical thinking.
Second, vessels: body-like forms that carry weight, pressure, and accumulated belief.
Third, paintings: spaces where information is no longer controlled, but overwhelming, where it collides with the body, producing tension, numbness, doubt, or resistance.
Rather than offering answers, her work invites viewers to slow down, notice their own bodily reactions, and reflect on what they choose to trust and why.
EDUCATION
2025 BA (Hons) Fine Art, The Open University, The Open College of the Arts, UK
2017 Cultural Art experience in Shanghai – study calligraphy and Chinese ink painting
2016 Exchange Art Program in Brazil, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation – FAAP
2015 Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts
2005 Moscow City Pedagogical University, Jurisprudence (civil relationship), Lawyer
EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
(S) Solo Show (G) Group Exhibition (AF) Art Fair
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.