Artist’s Statement
The images of my works are indecent for a contemporary artist. Flowers and cats, snowmen and angels, bulls and ladybugs – these are themes for postcards, candy boxes, bottle labels and rugs in the nursery. I realize that with such plots I can deserve reproaches of bourgeoisness, sentimentality and frivolity, that I violate professional convention and risk the reputation of a serious author. Moreover, I am painting all this without any mockery of petty-bourgeois taste and hackneyed clichés of mass culture, moreover - with admiration. I believe that the image has become a cliché, a common sign, because it speaks about the most important things. The bull of the Paleolithic cave, the bull of the Minoan painting, the bull of Picasso and the bull of the “Sangre de Toro” label are all about the same things: about power, about rage, about passion, about murder. Rose is about tender flesh, about temptation, about enjoying, about seduction, Rose is a vagina. If people have been drawing roses for thousands of years and continue to do so, then it's worth it. It all is about the eternal, it is for everyone.
Biography
Marina Koldobskaya is contemporary Russian artist, based in Finland and Berlin, Gemany. Born in 1961 in Leningrad, USSRIn 1985, graduated from High School of Art and Design, n.a. V. Mukhina in Leningrad (now Academy of design n.a. A.Stiglitz), specializing in design.In mid-80es, in Perestroika time, started to participate in exhibitions as a freelance artist. In mid-90es, was the head of women’s art group Beloved Ones (using folk arts and crafts in contemporary art). In period since mid-90es to mid-2000es also worked as journalist and art critic.
Curator of numerous art projects, as: exhibitions Looking For The Lost Icon, I Love Money,Petersburg Neo-Expressionism, Bitch of The Century competition, Female Face Of Petersburg Art, Hand Made, Gold For People, Black & White Petersburg, Art Media Forumfestival, video programs Something About Power, Time &Place, since 2004 – educational program ontemporary Art in The State Hermitage Museum, since 2007 – annual festival on media art CYBERFEST www.cyberfest.ru and others.
In 1999-2001 was a Director of Museum of Non-conformist Art in St.-Petersburg.
In 2003-2011 was a Director of St. Petersburg Branch of National Centre for Contemporary Art. In mid-2000s established media laboratory CYLAND in co-operation with Anna Frants (St. Petersburg Arts Project) www.cyland.org
In 1987-1999 was a member of TEII (The Fellowship of Independent Experimental Art), now member of Free Culture Fellowship.
In 2010-11 was a member of Council of Culture Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg. Since 2007 a member of European Culture Parliament.Exhibitions
Art works by Marina Koldobskaya are in The State Hermitage Museum, The State Russian Museum, Museum of Political History of Russia, Museum of Art of St. Petersburg, New Museum (St. Petersburg), The State Art Gallery of Tatarstan (Kazan), Museum of Non-conformist Art, Collection of St. Petersburg Central Exhibition Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg University, Center for Comtemporary Arts n.a. S.Kuryokhin, Kuoysei No Sato Museum (Fukuoka), Angerlehner Museum (Thalheim bei Wels), CSAR (Venice), many galleries, corporative and private collections over the world.
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Marina Koldobskaya
Red Deer, 2020
52 x 40 cm acrylic on paper €300.00