Masha Iv

Bio

Masha was born in Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, in 1986. She has been living and working in Moscow since 2003. In 2006 she finished the Collage of Applied and Decorative Arts named after Karl Faberge and in 2010 she graduated from the Russian Correspondence Institute of Textile and Light Industry. She has been cooperating with Andrey Bartenev since 2005. Together with him she started fashion brand BARTENEV SKETCH. She has been an active participant of different art exhibitions since 2007. In 2012 she joined the Russian Artists Union. She now paints and makes installations and also performs.

Exhibitions and performances:
2013 – the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Special project “MediaGarden”. Performance “Preparation for Work”
2013 – the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Special Project “Buk-Art-Botanika”
2013 – Tretyakov State Gallery. Interactive installation “Malevich’s Space”
2012 – Arkhstoyanie’12. Performance “Choice”
2012 – Tretyakov State Gallery. Art action "The Crimean plein air with Konstantin Korovin
2012 – Darwin State Museum, exhibition “The Original Fake”
2012 – Turgenev State Library. Performance “Fashion Pulp”

2011 – the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Project “Bedroom community. Open Lesson”. School 109
2011 – Workshop’11, MMOMA
2010 – Arkhstoyanie’10. Performance “Water Temple” together with Pulsart Group and Marina Zvyagentseva.
2010 – Darwin State Museum. Project “Air”
2009 – Tretyakov State Gallery. Exhibition “Dance Vision, devoted to the 100th Anniversary of Sergey Dyagilev Russian Ballet” together with Pulsart Group
2009 – the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Project “Bedroom community” together with Pulsart Group
2009 – Performance “Diffusion of Heads and Interference of Thoughts” together with Pulsart Group. OGI Street
2009 – Darwin State Museum. Project “Dream”
2009 – Performance “ArtMarin” together with Pulsart Group
2008 – Illustrators Festival “Free WI-FI”, MMOMA
2008 – the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art “Stop!
Who’s coming?”
2007 – Illustrators Festival “Love Coutur”, MMOMA, Zurab Gallery
2007 – Masterclass’07, MMOMA