ph: Alexey Slyshev
Maria Abdullaeva (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary artist working with different mediums such as film, painting, photography, installation, performance, sound and poetry. Her artistic practice is based on the exploration of nostalgia through the transformation of personal stories. Many of the works explore questions of the metaphysics of nature, magic, memory, legends of sensory experience and the ethereal matter of the post-nostalgic. Maria is also interested in the fluidity of the photographic, ritual and temporality in the state of travel. The artist creates poetic forms from archival elements, field notes, informational finds, natural materials, and chemical photographic processes. This is a magical incident on the railroad.
EDUCATION
2021 — 2025 Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia
2021 — 2023 ENSAPC, Paris, France
2015 — 2020 High School of Design, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Drops are falling, but it’s not rain, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 Equinox Dream, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Festival du regard, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Wherever eyes look, Elohovskiy gallery, Moscow, Russia
2025 Theatre of Materials: conflict, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 There will be signs, másla lissé, Moscow, Russia
2024 Allchemy, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 Theatre of Materials, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Claves-Gated-Dollines, Ygreves, Paris, France
2022 Miette, Point Ephemere, Paris, France
2022 Save As, MAMM exhibition gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Bad, Bomba Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Pobegi, Basmannyi Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Travel, Graund Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 6th Biennale of international art, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
GRANTS
2022 Escape, Festival du Regard, Paris
FAIRS
2024 Fresh Talents, |catalog|, Moscow, Russia
2021 Independent artist, WIN-WIN, Moscow, Russia
2021 Deficit Art Book Fair, Flacon Gallery, Moscow, Russia
FESTIVALS
2021 Artdoc Media Festival, Moscow, Russia
2020 Dark Collab, Art-Space-Hopping, Moscow, Russia
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Cultobzor, Theatre of Materials: conflict, MAMM exhibition gallery
2024 Kuba Paris, There will be signs,
másla lissé
2024 ArtTube, There will be signs,
másla lissé