Marina Naprushkina

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Marina Naprushkina

Marina Naprushkina (born November 23, 1981 in Minsk , Belarusian SSR ) is a political artist and activist who lives and works in Berlin .

Artistic career

education

From 1997 to 2000 Naprushkina studied at the Glebov State Art School in Minsk and then continued her studies in Karlsruhe at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . From 2004 to 2008 she continued her studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main , with the American artist Martha Rosler , who specializes in video art , photography , performance and installation .

Focus

The artist is active in the fields of installation , painting and video art .

Naprushkina is primarily interested in the political dimensions and scope of art and devotes herself to the artistic processing of power structures in nation states . Belarus sees them as an example of how a modern dictatorship is established and how Western democracies deal with this problem.

To do this, she often uses factual texts such as propaganda pamphlets published by institutions that are under the control of the Belarusian government .

Since 2016 the artist has been a lecturer in the * foundationClass at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , which was initiated by Professor Ulf Aminde . The * foundationClass aims to provide art students among the refugees with the basics for an application at a German-speaking art college.

Projects (selection)

Anti-Propaganda Office , since 2007

In 2007 she founded the Bureau for Anti-Propaganda , a long-term research and documentation project. In it, she examines how controls and manipulations are carried out in order to maintain power. The Bureau for Anti-Propaganda also participates in political actions and has been publishing the newspaper Self # governing in Russian and English since 2011 , in which political manipulation mechanisms were explained with the intention of "immunizing readers at least a little against it" The newspaper is on the one hand to develop promising paths for Belarus beyond the power blocs of the European Union and Russia , but on the other hand to initiate alternative political models worldwide. The Russian-language edition of the newspaper was widely distributed by activists in Belarus. The second edition of the newspaper took a feminist approach: with an analysis of the patriarchal system of rule in Belarus, she showed how women support this model themselves, but also what alternatives could be found. With this contribution the artist took part in the 7th Berlin Biennale . Since the funding expired in 2015 despite the positive echo in Berlin, the next edition of the newspaper is not in sight.

"Marina Naprushkina's office for anti-propaganda has meanwhile transformed from an artistic project into a real nucleus of political resistance," said Jutta Schwengsbier on Deutschlandfunk in July 2011.

Sculpture The President's Platform , 2007

The sculpture is a copy of the pedestal that the Belarusian government of the time erected as a propaganda instrument on important official occasions so that President Aljaksandr Lukashenka could glorify his statesmanship from there and divert attention from political issues, so the accompanying text at the 11. Istanbul Biennale . The absurdity of this isolated red pedestal, so the accompanying text continues, stimulates thought about how extensively the term platform is used to locate dialogue and freedom of expression , while the latter is stifled in most societies that see themselves as democratic . The stage also refers to exhibitions as spaces where otherwise suppressed topics beyond the political sphere can be discussed and thought through.

With this contribution, the artist participated in the 11th Istanbul Biennale .

Video film Belarus Today , 2008

In this five-minute color film, construction workers read out official notices from Belarusian newspapers.

With this contribution the artist took part in the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art . In an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Astrid Mania assigned Belarus Today to the works “which present their concerns within conventional genre boundaries”, which corresponded to the exhibition concept of the curator Kathrin Becker in the context of this prestigious Moscow project.

Coloring book My Daddy is a Policeman , 2011

Marina Naprushkina designed the coloring book My Daddy is a Policeman as part of a campaign by the non-governmental organization Nash Dom . What Does He Do at Work? published and distributed by Nash Dom . As part of an exhibition, visitors were invited to paint the printouts of the book on the wall.

This publication was in the following context: Between 2006 and 2011, politically active women in Belarus were repeatedly victims of violence by the state security forces, particularly during the election campaign in early 2006 and late 2010. Unjustified arrests and imprisonments and heavy fines were also among the attacks the controlled loss of jobs, expulsion from school and university, and the exertion of pressure on other family members, even denial of medical help and the drive to commit suicide. In the coloring book, such violent situations are simulated with clay figures and described in experience reports in simple language.

Video film Prosperity for All , 2011

Naprushkina took the title of the video from Gregor Gysi's election campaign slogan from 2009. She translated three speeches by Angela Merkel , Oskar Lafontaine and Guido Westerwelle and had Belarusians read the texts at home or in semi-private locations in front of the camera. The readers reacted differently to the statements that affect them very closely and that are so far removed from them: with pathos , respect for the authors or with attempts to transfer what they have read to Belarusian reality. Gysi's slogan Prosperity for All , which should apply to all in a democracy, has no relation to Belarusian reality.

This film was made against the following socio-political background: While the official bodies in Belarus and advertising there have been promising prosperity, social improvements and progress for years and advertising has supported this illusion with appropriate images, poverty is actually growing. Naprushkina shows excerpts from the rapid modernization of the cities, which is mostly limited to prestige projects such as the national library or memorials and is therefore double-edged. The contradicting juxtaposition of official announcements and reality allows a disturbing view of the effects of targeted propaganda.

In the opinion of curator and art historian Lena Prents, Naprushkina also wanted to show that such developments are taking place in Belarus, but also in the Federal Republic and many other countries.

Going Public Project (Goethe-Institut), 2012

In 2012 the artist worked on the project Going Public - On the Difficulty of a Public Statement by the Goethe Institute . This project with the participation of Germany , Lithuania , Belarus and Kaliningrad “asked about the potential of a public art and about public concepts”. and included artistic interventions in Klaipėda , Minsk and Kaliningrad as well as a final conference in the gallery for contemporary art in Leipzig . Naprushkina was not involved in the artistic activities in Minsk, but wrote a text for the documentation and took part in the final panel discussion.

Project Refugees' Library (since 2016)

The artist also participates in the Refugees' Library project . As part of this project, anonymized transcripts of court hearings that took place in the context of asylum procedures are published. The material is intended to give refugees the opportunity to prepare for their own negotiations.

reception

Awards

Scholarships

The artist's work has been recognized and supported by numerous scholarships at home and abroad. In 1999 she received a grant from the President of Belarus, and in 2007, with a focus on The Russians, the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture gave her a one-month attendance grant for the artist house Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems . In 2013 she was awarded the Berlin Senate's fine arts scholarship and in the same year she received a scholarship from the Summer Academy at the Paul Klee Center in Bern .

In 2010 she was invited to Chicago as Artist in Residence as part of the ArtsLink Residencies Program , where she set herself the goal of gaining insight into the politics of the United States and the lives of its citizens. In 2012, the association Kulturkontakt Austria , based in Vienna , also selected her as artist in residence.

Prices

In 2000 she was awarded the Minsk City Art Prize. In November 2015 Marina Naprushkina received the € 5,000 prize from the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Foundation Vienna for her artistic work. In February 2017 it was announced that she was one of the winners of the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture 2017 from the European Cultural Foundation .

Biennials

Of the numerous solo and group exhibitions in which Marina Naprushkina has shown her work in various European cities since 2004, a few biennials deserve special mention:

In 2009 Naprushkina took part in the partial exhibitions Second Dialogue and New Old Cold War at the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art .

In the same year the artist was invited to the 11th Istanbul Biennale with her work The President's Platform , which was held under the motto What Keeps Mankind Alive? was standing.

In 2012 Naprushkina took part in the 7th Berlin Biennale with the newspaper Self # governing and in the third Moscow Biennale for Young Art with the five-minute color video Belarus Today (2008) .

Reception conditions in Belarus

Naprushkina's art is controversial in Belarus and was not allowed to be exhibited there (as of 2012). While at the moment (August 2015) exhibitions in state institutions in Belarus are still not possible for Naprushkina, she shows her work there again and again in privately operated exhibition rooms, but when selecting the works of art, takes care not to conflict with the exhibitors to bring to the authorities.

Only under difficult conditions could Naprushkina's video film Prosperity for All be shown in Minsk in the gallery Ў in the exhibition West of East , which was one of several stations in the exhibition series Europe (to the power of) n organized by the Goethe-Institut : “Das Goethe -Institute in Minsk withdrew before the opening, [...] and some visitors threatened to inform the public order office when they saw critical work ”.

Readings

On the main topic of the situation of refugees and asylum seekers , employees of the festival read the entire text of the book by Marina Naprushkina: Neue Heimat ?: How refugees make us better neighbors in September 2015 as part of the Berlin International Literature Festival in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . This was followed by a conversation with the author.

As part of the Autumn Salon in November 2015, Marina Naprushkina will read from Neue Heimat ?: How refugees make us better neighbors at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin .

Social engagement

In August 2013, Naprushkina founded the New Neighborhood Moabit initiative after visiting the refugee dormitory on Levetzowstrasse in Berlin- Moabit . The aid organization offers German courses, childcare and sports courses for the refugees.

While the operator of the accommodation, the company Gierso Boardinghaus , initially worked with the initiative, a rift broke out at the end of 2013 when the organization made its criticism of the massive abuses in the accommodation public. In the spring of 2015, Naprushkina filed a complaint against Gierso , alleging that she had charged the State of Berlin for services that had not been provided, including fictitious personnel costs . Naprushkina's complaint was also directed against the President of the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, Franz Allert , because the latter had not properly controlled Gierso. Allert's godson is at the helm of Gierso .

The initiative received the honorary award from the Berlin-Mitte district office in 2014 .

Own publications

About Marina Naprushkina

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV Marina Naprushkina , Office for Anti-Propaganda, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Communication from the Summer Academy at the Paul Klee Center to Marina Naprushkina , 2013, accessed on July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original: Naprushkina […] is primarily interested in the political dimensions and scope of art.)
  4. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original: She sees Belarus as a case study for "how a modern dictatorship is established and how western democracies deal with this problem".)
  5. ↑ Project details. In: Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee . Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
  6. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original: ... she turns her attention towards mechanisms of control and manipulation for the purposes of the safeguarding of power.)
  7. ^ A b Christiane Meixner: "New Intolerance": Debate in Berlin. Thoughts swim by. Does the restriction of artistic freedom threaten democracy? That is what the discussion on the "new intolerance" in Berlin was about. Exciting theses met tired phrases. , tagesspiegel.de, May 24, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ a b c d Martin Schibli: Self # governing. A newspaper from Marina Naprushkina. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , berlinberlinale.de, accessed on August 2, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinbiennale.de
  9. ↑ Jutta Schwengsbier: "Bureau for Antipropaganda" The Belarusian artist Marina Naprushkina and her fight against dictator Lukashenko. , deutschlandfunk.de, July 24, 2011, accessed on August 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Description of the work of art on the website of the 11th Istanbul Biennale , accessed on August 2, 2015, (original: The President's Platform (2007) might be mistaken for a minimalist sculpture, but is actually a copy of the platform owned by the present government of Belarus, whose leader is Alexander Lukashenko. For important events the platform is set up, as a propagandistic instrument to glorify his statesmanship and divert attention from politics.).
  11. ↑ Description of the work of art on the website of the 11th Istanbul Biennale , accessed on August 2, 2015, (original: The absurdity of this solitary red pedestal reflects on the excessive use of the term 'platform' as an imaginary basis for dialogue and freedom of speech, whilst at the same time this freedom of speech is stifled in most 'democratic' societies.).
  12. ↑ Description of the work of art on the website of the 11th Istanbul Biennale , accessed on August 2, 2015, (in the original: The stage also makes reference to the exhibition as a space where subjects that are otherwise suppressed can be discussed and reflected upon in a way that is beyond real politics.).
  13. ^ A b Astrid Mania: Third Biennial for Young Art in Moscow Anger on what is seen. Harmlessness as a statement: Seldom has a curator thrashed her own project like Elena Selina at the third Moscow Biennale for Young Art. The participants are political, but their freedom is limited in a country where punks are locked up for harmless protests. , http://www.sueddeutsche.de , August 3, 2012, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ Marina Naprushkina: My Daddy is a Policeman. What Does He Do at Work? , accessed August 1, 2015.
  15. ↑ a b Marina Naprushkina: My Daddy is a Policeman. What Does He Do at Work? , accessed August 1, 2015.
  16. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (in the original: Naprushkina translated three speeches by German politicians (Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle, Oskar Lafontaine) and had people in Belarus read them out in front of the camera in their homes or in semi-private places.)
  17. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original: With pathos, respect for the authors or attempts to adapt what they are reading to Belarussian reality, the readers of the texts react to the comments that affect them so closely and yet are so far removed from them.)
  18. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original:… Gysi's slogan Wealth for all , which is meant to apply to everyone in a democratic sense, has no relation to the real circumstances.)
  19. ^ A b Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55.
  20. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original: With her installation, the artist Marina Naprushkina reveals the contradictory juxtaposition of official publicity and the reality of everyday life. She opens up a disturbing view of selective propaganda in practice.)
  21. ↑ a b c Lilian Tietjen: Culture and Management "West of East" - A conversation about the censorship in the last 'dictatorship of Europe'. , Kulturport.de, September 28, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2015.
  22. ↑ Going public project page , accessed on August 1, 2015.
  23. ↑ Marina Naprushkina: My mother on politics, art and the role of women. , in: Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig and Cultures of the Curatorial, University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig, for the Goethe Institute (Ed.): Well Connected. , Special edition as part of Going Public , Issue 2, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 9783932865763 , p. 16.
  24. ^ Refugees' Library. In: refugeeslibrary.wordpress.com. February 6, 2012, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  25. ^ A b c Communication from the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture on the 2007 scholarship holder Marina Naprushkina , accessed on July 30, 2015.
  26. ↑ Press release of the Berlin Senate of June 11, 2013 on the scholarship holders , accessed on July 30, 2015.
  27. ^ Announcement from the Summer Academy in the Paul Klee Center on the 2013 scholarship holder Marina Naprushkina , accessed on July 30, 2013.
  28. ↑ release from cecartslink.org to the fellows in 2010 , accessed on July 30, 2015.
  29. ^ Message from Kulturkontakt Austria on Marina Naprushkina as Artist in Residence , accessed on July 30, 2015.
  30. ^ Sussmann Prize awarded to the artist Marina Naprushkina , accessed on December 3, 2015
  31. ↑ Press release: 2017 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture. European Cultural Foundation , February 2, 2017, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  32. ^ Exhibitions by Marina Naprushkina , kunstaspekte.de, accessed on August 3, 2015.
  33. ↑ Constantin Bokhorov: Second Dialogue ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://3rd.moscowbiennale.ru , accessed on August 2, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 3rd.moscowbiennale.ru
  34. ^ Message on New Old Cold War ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://3rd.moscowbiennale.ru , accessed on August 2, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 3rd.moscowbiennale.ru
  35. ^ Website of the 11th Istanbul Biennale , accessed on August 2, 2015.
  36. ^ Marina Naprushkina: Marina Naprushkina.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://youngart.ru , accessed August 2, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / youngart.ru  
  37. ^ Lena Prents: Marina Naprushkina. Wealth for All, 2011 , in: Barbara Steiner, Peio Aguirre (Eds.): The scenario book. thinking Europe , Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783868591880 , p. 55. (Original:… Naprushkina's art has become the subject of controversial discussions in Belarus. She is, however, prohibited from exhibiting her work there.)
  38. ^ Message from the artist in a private mail to Reisen8 on August 6, 2015.
  39. ↑ Extract from the program of the Berlin International Literature Festival 2015 , accessed on September 1, 2015.
  40. ^ Announcement from the Maxim-Gorki-Theater on the reading during the autumn salon , accessed on November 17, 2015.
  41. ↑ a b Dana, Melrose: New Neighborhood . , couchFM Das Berliner Campusradio, http://www.couchfm.de/neue-nachbarschaft/ , accessed on July 27, 2015.
  42. ↑ a b c Oliver Soos, Wolf Siebert: Doing business with refugees Every day more asylum seekers come to Berlin. Every second person ends up in private accommodation. The conditions are often bad, but the operators earn good money. , Zeit Online, March 5, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2015, p. 1.
  43. ↑ Oliver Soos, Wolf Siebert: Doing Business with Refugees More and more asylum seekers come to Berlin every day. Every second person ends up in private accommodation. The conditions are often bad, but the operators earn good money. , Zeit Online, March 5, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2015, p. 2.
  44. ↑ Press release on the awarding of the 2014 honorary prize by the Berlin-Mitte district , accessed on August 1, 2015.
  45. ↑ Peter Siller, Bertram Keller: Editorial polar # 13: Aufstand , polar , issue 13 (2012).
  46. ↑ Peter Siller, Bertram Keller: Editorial polar # 13: Aufstand , polar , issue 13 (2012).
personal data
SURNAME Naprushkina, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Напрушкіна, Марына
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian artist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk , Belarusian SSR