Marina Belobrovaja

Marina Klinker Belobrovaja (born September 11, 1976 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Soviet- Israeli artist and director. Belobrovaja lives in Zurich .

Life

Belobrovaja was born in the Soviet Union , moved to Israel in 1990 and later to Germany . She studied fine arts and art education at the UdK Berlin from 1995 to 2002 and at the ZHdK in Zurich from 2002 to 2007.

Her multimedia projects address phenomena from the world of work and consumption, questions of legislation and migration. In 2008 she received a summer studio grant from the Kunstraum Baden. In addition to her artistic practice, she has been active in various functions at the Lucerne School of Art and Design since the same year . In 2009 she received a studio grant from “visarte” (formerly the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects ) at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . From 2011 to 2015 she was a doctoral candidate at the Muthesius Art Academy with Theresa Georgen and since then a doctoral candidate at the Art University Linz with Giaco Schiesser . In 2016 she received another studio grant from “visarte” and the Eduard-Bick-Foundation and another in 2017 from NAIRS .

Installations and performances

Belobrovaja had her first exhibition participations from 2005 to 2007 with her performance “KBZ” and her performative installation “Nachtklub”, with which she performed not only at performance festivals in Berlin (“100 °”; Hebbel Theater , 2005) and in Leipzig (“ Blue Shift ”; 2008) was also seen at the Rote Fabrik (2008) factory theater with the support of various DJs and VJs . With her performance “Karussell” she could be seen in 2007 together with DJ Michalsky in the Zürcher Kunsthof and in 2008 with DJ Pitsch in the Kunsthaus Baselland . Numerous other art projects followed, including as part of the project “ Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture ” with the installation “Frischgemüse”, and in 2010 with the intervention series “kunstwette.ch” also at the “ message salon ” Perla-Mode in Zurich the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen , in the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne etc. on display. In 2010 she showed her installation “Vegetable growing” and her intervention series “Graumarkt”, which was presented in collaboration with others, in the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee ; the latter as part of the local series “We save Zurich”.

Movie

In 2014 she made the documentary Warm Glow , in which she accompanied a group of Swiss politicians, journalists and tourists to the contaminated exclusion zone of the Chernobyl reactor disaster for five days . The film was shown in 2014 at the Solothurn Film Festival, in the Zurich cinema RiffRaff, at the 4th International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro , at the Opuzen Film Festival in Croatia, at the Jameson CineFest in Miskolc , at the Uranium Film Festival in Berlin, at the International TV Festival Bar shown in Montenegro and in the cinema of the Kunstmuseum Bern , in 2015 in the FLIZ cinema club in Zug and in 2016 on Radio Télévision Suisse RTS / SRF.

Publications

• Miriam Sturzenegger; Marina Belobrovaja (concept and editing): Research project Direction in Complicity / Art Research Lucerne. Art Research University of Lucerne - Design & Art , Lucerne 2011, ISBN 978-3-906413-41-9 .
• Contribution to Urban.art.marks. Art explores the space of the city. Art Research University of Lucerne - Design & Art, Interact, Lucerne 2011, ISBN 978-3-906413-83-9 .
• The DNA Project. [Trans. by Sascha Hosters u. Johanes Kleine], Bucher Verlag , Hohenems / Vienna / Vaduz 2012, ISBN 978-3-99018-119-5 ; on the occasion of the invitation to the exhibition “A certain Jewish something” at the Jewish Museum Hohenems .

literature

• Beat Mazenauer: Marina Belobrovaja, performance artist (Ukraine / Switzerland). In: When it comes to the sausage, I fight. 16 portraits of new Swiss nationals. Limmat Verlag , Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85791-650-2 .

Web links

• Personal website
• Marina Belobrovaja. In: Sikart
• Marina Belobrovaja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marina Belobrovaja at Swiss Films
• Marina Belobrovaja on the website of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
• Through the month with Marina Belobrovaja. In: WOZ The weekly newspaper . August 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marina Belobrovaja. Swiss Films, accessed on August 24, 2017 . 
2. ^ Adrian Riklin: Who is asking the questions here? In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung (interview). Retrieved August 25, 2017.
3. ^ Website of the artist. Retrieved August 24, 2017 . 
4. ^ Lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts D&K. Retrieved August 24, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Vincenzo Capodici: The Swiss Chernobyl Reisli. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 16, 2014.
6. ^ The DNA project. Jewish Museum Hohenems, 2012.