About the artist
Marina Wittemann, born in Moscow, now resides and creates in Germany. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose artworks have been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, South America, and Asia. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the VAO UK & International Emerging Artist Awards.
Wittemann's art delves into the viewer's emotions through the sensory qualities of materials and colour. She employs recycled and building materials, merging painting, sculpture, and installation to create compositions that challenge perceptions of value and permanence.
Her research explores intuition, affect, and sensory perception, drawing from synesthesia and the unconscious. Through vivid colours, energetic brushstrokes, scratched boards, and fragmented surfaces, she investigates the visceral impact of materials, blurring the boundaries between destruction and creation. By incorporating elements of temporality and transformation, her works evoke a constant state of flux - questioning the stability of memory, narratives, and perception.
Wittemann also examines the tension between physical presence and digital representation, highlighting the fragility of materiality in an era of rapid dematerialization. Her exploration of media, propaganda, and text-based elements challenges established norms, urging viewers to critically engage with the structures that shape their understanding of the world.
EDUCATION
2018 - 2024 BA Fine Art, The Open University, The Open College of the Arts, UK
2016 - 2017 Cultural Art experience in Shanghai – study calligraphy and Chinese ink painting
2015 - 2016 Exchange Art Program in Brazil, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation – FAAP
2013 - 2015 Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts
2001 - 2005 Moscow City Pedagogical University, Jurisprudence (civil relationship), Lawyer
EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
(S) Solo Show (G) Group Exhibition (AF) Art Fair
2025 upcoming, with Eberhard Bitter, EXOGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (S)
upcoming, 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
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 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
2016 Annual FAAP Art Opens Doors on November 21, Vogue online Magazine
MEMBERSHIP (MITGLIEDSCHAFT)
BBK - Bundesverband Bildender Künstler Saarland e.V.