About the artist
Marina Wittemann is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, South America, and Asia. Born in Moscow and based in Germany, she works across painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring how materials, memory, and perception carry meaning.
Wittemann is fascinated by the nature of truth and the process of questioning lies. She transforms childhood memories, expressed through wooden elements and newspapers, which she sees as controversial sources of information, into objects full of meaning. Through this work, she explores the struggle between honesty and deception, and the ways visual and tactile experiences shape understanding.
Her work often invites viewers to look closely, to sense the tension between surface beauty and underlying complexity. Newspapers, layered surfaces, and carved textures reveal fragments of memory, media, and ideology. These objects do not provide easy answers. Instead, they ask: What do we trust when truth is fragile?
In Wittemann’s practice, bodily presence and the fleeting nature of time are essential. Her art creates a space where seeing becomes questioning, and where recognizing falsehoods can inspire the reclaiming of authenticity, courage, and understanding.
EDUCATION
2025 BA 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 upcoming, 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)
BBK - Bundesverband Bildender Künstler Saarland e.V.