*1965
“…It is better then to see the paintings as landscapes of the mind, projections and
open territories of imaginary inscription. That Serebriakova reflects upon this is
beyond doubt, since she stated earlier “Art is a sort of ritual that incessantly defines emptiness… ” (Mark Gisbourne)
Born in Moscow in 1965, Maria Serebriakova has been living and working in Berlin since 1998. Emerging as an artist in the late 1980s the artistic language of Serebriakova was formed under Perestroika and may be defined as “radical artistic minimalism”. Exhibited at Documenta in 1992 she has many other solo and group exhibitions include the shows at Centre for Contemporary Art PS1 (MOMA, New York, USA), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). The artist travels along the landscapes of her mind and records her travel memories on canvas. Her images-phantoms are circles appearing as if suns or constellations, rhythmic lines that arc across the surface of some paintings, architectural elements of buildings, variable horizon line, silent spaces filled with air. The predominating colour of her works is grey in tone, meditative, known as a borderland or mediation between black and white.
SOLO SHOWs
2010 Suspicious Garden. REGINA Gallery. London, Russia
2008 Day Night Day. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2005-2006 White sea. Giorgio Persano Gallery. Torino, Italy
2004 Maria Serebriakova.Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2002 Maria Serebriakova. Kunstburo. Vienna, Austria
2002 Maria Serebriakova. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2001 Hotel Moscow. Project in Moscow. Moscow, Russia
When the winter gets too long. Art & Idea. New York, USA
TV-painting. Kunsthalle Lophem. Buero 2002. Bruges, Belgium
Maria Serebriakova. Art Athina 2001. Galleria Giorgio Persano. Athens, Greece
2000 Mexico for two. Project in 2 parts. Art & Idea. Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico
1999 Maria Serebriakova. Giorgio Persano Gallery. Torino, Italy
1999 Maria Serebriakova. Hotel San Francisco. Cuidad of Mexico, Mexico
1998 NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Berlin, Germany
1997 Maria Serebriakova. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
Drawings. XL Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1996 Maria Serebriakova. Kunsthalle Lophem. Bruges,Belgium
1995 Maria Serebriakova. La Base. Centre d’Art Contemporain. Levallois, France
1995 Ultima Thule. Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 Le Creux de l’Enfer. Centre d’Art Contemporain. Thiers, France
1993-1992 Maria Serebriakova. ZenoX Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
1992 Maria Serebriakova. Galeria Giorgio Persano. Torino, Italy
1992 KünstlerhausBethanien. Berlin, Germany
1991 Optika Vzgliada – Ida Applebroog & Maria Serebriakova. Avtozavodskaja Exhibition Hall. Moscow, Russia
The Way Things Stand. Schola Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1990 Malerei und Objekte. Inter Art Gallery. Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Works on paper. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2009 Nomad. Kulturcentrum. Bruges,Belgium
Ein netter Raum. Galerie Rauminhalt. Vienna, Austria
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Special project. Through the picture. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
2006 25 years Zeno X Gallery. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2005 1st Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Special project. Invasion. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
2003 … Biedermeier, oder was? Galerie Hubert Winter. Vienna, Austria
2002 Regarding Landscape. Art Gallery of York University. The Koffler Centre Art Gallery. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Toronto, Canada
2001 Aspects of the collection III. Museet For Samtidskunst / The National Museum of Contemporary Art. Oslo, Norway; Hunger nach bildern? Kunsthalle Palazzo. Liestal, Switzerland
2000 Face to Face. Cabinet Overholland. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000. Paris, France
Let and Go. CCAC. San Francisco, USA
1995 VI Triennale der Kleinplastik. Stuttgart, Germany
Photo-Reclamation: New Art from Moscow & Saint Petersburg. The Photographers Gallery. London, UK
1992 Documenta IX. Kassel, Germany
1991 Perspective of Conceptual. PS1 Gallery. The Clocktower. New York, USA
University of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1990 The Missing Picture. Alternative Contemporary Photography from the USSR. MIT List Visual Art Center. Cambridge, UK; Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma Art Museum. Seattle, USA;
ICA. Boston, USA;
Des Moines Art Center. Iowa, USA
1989 Precious Art/ Dorogoe Iskusstvo. The Central Place of Youth. Moscow, Russia
1987 A Retrospective of Moscow Artists 1957-1897. Association Ermitage. Moscow, Russia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum Overholland. Nieuwesluis, Netherlands
MOMA. New York, USA
S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
Tacum Museum. Seatle, Boston, USA
The State Russian Museum – Marble Palace. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Contemporary Art. Oslo, Norway
Kunstmuseum. Biel, Switzerland
Rubell Family Collection. Miami, USA
NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Berlin, Germany
Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
Deutsche Bank Collection. London, UK
UCLA Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, California, USA
