Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov

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Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov (* 1973 in Leningrad ) are visual artists and twin sisters who work together as an artist duo.

Life

They grew up as the daughters of a children's theater director and a film producer in Leningrad. They spent most of the summer holidays in Pobaltis, Lithuania . They learned drawing and painting from 1978 to 1984 in the museum art school for children of the Hermitage . From 1990 to 1991 they attended drawing classes at the Russian Art Academy there .

In 1991 they spent two weeks as part of a student exchange program at Rhode Island College (RIC) in Providence , where they moved from Russia in 1992 to study painting. Through the RIC's National Student Exchange Program, which allows up to one academic year at a college or university in another part of the United States, they spent a year in New York studying at Hunter College of The City University of New York . In 1996 they received their Bachelor of Fine Arts (BA) degree from the RIC. They also completed their graduate studies in painting from 1996 to 1999 at Hunter College with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree . During this time, as PhD students, they took part in an exchange program at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1998 , and completed an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In 1999 they settled in Hamburg . They have been living and working in Berlin since 2009/2010 , but due to their participation in numerous artist in residence programs have temporarily lived in other European countries, such as 2000/2001 in France, 2002 and 2005 in Spain, 2004 in Ireland, 2004 and 2008 in Norway, 2006 in Finland and 2008 in Scotland.

In 2009 they received the Alexander Reznikov Award from the Alexander Reznikov Collection.

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Many of her works were created after travels or during stays at home and abroad in the course of the residence programs. The Pechatnikov sisters consider these travel experiences to be fundamental for the development of their work, as they grasp the peculiarities of the new environment from the outside: “Our art takes the standpoint of a traveler or an outsider. When we take the perspective of an outsider, we notice those things in the environment that are no longer visible to insiders or locals ”. The perspective of a stranger in a foreign country became a recurring theme in her works of art.

Her works move between painting , sculpture and room installation . They carry out all artistic projects together, from planning to execution. First they take photographs, which they later implement as sculptures or paintings. “In the tradition of realism of the 19th century, they paint and draw everyday things and situations and create three-dimensional objects from a wide variety of materials, which they combine to form an overall installation that blurs the distinction between painting and object through numerous trompe l'œil effects ". “However, individual paintings can also be integrated into the overall installation and thus refer to painting as an artistic starting point. This relation to painting sets it apart from most of the installations by other artists ”.

Recurring themes in her works are reproducibility , communication and urbanity , that is, the urban space with its facets of culture, leisure and work. Places and objects such as subways, museums, flea markets, computers and offices can be found alienated or in a new context in their installations.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017: 1000 crows . Site-specific installation of 1000 crows on the harvested rye field at the Chapel of Reconciliation in Bernauer Strasse, Berlin Wall Foundation , Berlin
  • 2017: The Secret Life of Things . Museum Villa Rot , Burgrieden-Rot, group exhibition
  • 2017: group dynamics . Site-specific installations, pictures, objects, Stern-Wywiol Galerie, Hamburg, solo exhibition
  • 2017: Creatures . Site-specific installation, ruins of the monastery church , Berlin
  • 2016: Collecting the City . Installation, Tempelhof Museum, Alt-Mariendorf , Berlin, solo exhibition
  • 2016: Collecting the City . Bode Museum , Berlin
  • 2015: Berlin & Berlin . Installation, Goethe-Institut St. Petersburg, solo exhibition
  • 2015: A Guide to Berlin . Goethe-Institut Strasbourg, solo exhibition
  • 2015: 200 oil paintings for the art vending machine . Jewish Museum Berlin
  • 2014: 200 sparrow reliefs for the art vending machine . Jewish Museum Berlin
  • 2014: A Guide to Berlin . Installation, University of Strasbourg , solo exhibition
  • 2014: Dogs . Installation in the Weisser Elefant gallery, Berlin, as part of the HEIM_SPIEL series of the Women's Museum Berlin . The dogs were photographed on Berlin streets, then painted and then modeled into sculptures on a 1: 1 scale. Group exhibition
  • 2014: Flying Gardens . Künstlerhaus Sootbörn , Hamburg, group exhibition
  • 2014: Birds . The life-size birds represent the three most common species in cities, crows, pigeons and sparrows. Berlin-Tempelhof Airport , Berlin, art in public space
  • 2011: Thirty pieces of silver . Haupt Collection , Halle am Wasser, Berlin, group exhibition
  • 2009: Get connected . Alexander Reznikov Award winner exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2008: km 500 . Kunsthalle Mainz , group exhibition
  • 2007: wellness . Installation, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems, solo exhibition
  • 2006: Mice and More . Installation, Kulturbahnhof Hamburg-Harburg , Hamburg
  • 2005: Public (Private) Property . Installation, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn , Hamburg, solo exhibition
  • 2004: Formal Garden . Process Room of the Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, solo exhibition
  • 2003: Demolition / Aufbruch Speicherstadt , Hamburg, exhibition for the summer of architecture , group exhibition
  • 2002: Meaningful game sense . KX. Art on Kampnagel , Hamburg
  • 2000: Growing Painting . Site-specific installation, Zeisehallen , Hamburg
  • 1999: Zabriskie Gallery, New York, group exhibition
  • 1998: Paris Paintings . Mikhailovsky Palace, Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
  • 1997: Paintings and Prints . Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, group exhibition

Scholarships (selection)

  • 2017: production grant from the Foundation returning , Berlin (Foundation, which projects by artists and scientists of Jewish origin or Jewish faith who live in Germany, supports), for her animated documentary Pobaltis , the age using family photographs and animated watercolors a trip to the resort of the female artists in their childhood in Pobaltis, Lithuania.
  • 2012: Art Fund Foundation , Bonn, work grant
  • 2009: Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin , studio grant from the Berlin Senate, eight-year studio grant
  • 2008: Nordic Artists' Center, Dale, Norway, Artist in Residence program
  • 2008: Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Scotland, Artist in Residence program
  • 2007: Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems, Artist in Residence program
  • 2006: Atelje Stundars, Vaasa, Finland, Artist in Residence program
  • 2005: Can Serrat International Art Center, Barcelona, ​​Spain, International Residency Program
  • 2004: Nordic Artists' Center, Dale, Norway, Artist in Residence program
  • 2004: Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, Ireland, Artist in Residence program
  • 2003: Studio grant from the Artists' Association in Harburg, Hamburg
  • 2002: Fundaciòn Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, Artist in Residence program
  • 2002: Hamburg Cultural Foundation , Robert Bosch Foundation , Hamburg, Sinnspiel-Spielinn exhibition
  • 2002: Intercultural Projects, Authority for Culture and Media , Hamburg, Die Brücke, Public Art Project
  • 2001: Hamburg Cultural Foundation, Hamburg, Intercultural Festival Eigenarten
  • 2000/2001: Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France, Artist in Residence grant
  • 1998: Hunter College of the City University of New York , New York, study exchange program
  • 1998: Memorial Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Culture, New York, Fellowship Grant. Project: Family Portraits

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Gunda Bartels: City as a puzzle . In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 30, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g C15 Collection Ulla and Heinz Lohmann: Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov . Retrieved November 24, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Online magazine for women Aviva: The ZURÜCKGEBEN foundation promotes Jewish life in Germany - in 2017, five Jewish women from the arts and sciences received a grant from July 5, 2017. Accessed November 24, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gita Brown: Spotting the Unusual in the Usual: Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov . In: Rhode Island College Alumni Magazine , Winter 2013/2014, pp. 28-29. Retrieved November 25, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c d e artmagazine: The winners of the Alexander Reznikov Award 2008 . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Dr. Kathrin Reeckmann and Christina Dickel MA: press release on the exhibition in the Stern Wywiol Galerie, Hamburg . In: Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov. Retrieved November 25, 2017
  7. ^ Corinna Danielst: Double is good - Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov . In: Die Welt from July 14, 2006. Accessed on November 25, 2017
  8. ↑ a b c d Prof. Heinz Lohmann: Thinking the unthinkable. Introductory thoughts on the exhibition "Group Dynamics" in the STERNWYWIOL GALERIE in Hamburg . In: Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov. Retrieved November 25, 2017
  9. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Berlin crows . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  10. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Group dynamics . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  11. ^ Ruins of the Franciscan monastery church, Office for Further Education and Culture Department of Art and Culture: "Creatures" Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov . Exhibition leaflet. Retrieved November 24, 2017
  12. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Creatures . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  13. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Collecting the City . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  14. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Bode Museum . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  15. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Berlin & Berlin . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  16. ^ A b Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: A Guide to Berlin . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  17. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: 4 euros . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  18. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Sparrows . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  19. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Dogs . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  20. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Birds . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  21. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Mice & More . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  22. ^ Website Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov: Private Property . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  23. ^ Foundation Return: Foundation for the Promotion of Jewish Women in Art & Science . Retrieved November 24, 2017