Murashkina by iralu

Triumph of Justice 500Ń&#x2026;300 cm / silhouettes / paper on the wall / 2018

On the Top! This is the Triumph of Femininity. It is like climbing the top of the mountain and taking a deep breath. As if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Lilith... (the first Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woman), and Adam is the entire world.

Nina Murashkina

Nina Murashkina makes sensual and metaphorical art which is built on her own sexuality and empirical knowledge of herself. The artist crystallizes her own intimate experiences and reproduces her own vision of a woman through the vivid feminine images. The women with ambiguous and discredited positioning today are the Goddess: strong and weak at the same time with their snakelike plasticity and delicate sense, rational aspiration and irrational doubt that is able to capture but is more often to be captured. She lives with the infinite thirst for the harmony of all her entities. Murashkina and her female characters are integral to each other, her stories are the ones of her own experiences and metaphorical self portraits. From a young age she subtly compiled her female image. The elegance of the 19th century was borrowed from the Victorian literature and boldly combined with the ghostly memories of the gloomy, late-Soviet life of Donetsk - the smell of nylon stockings and worn out mother’s pearls. The realities of the environment where the artist evolved are deliberately adorned by the aesthetics of

the sentimental era. The fairy fabulousness of Nina’s world scares and the imaginary intimate images of her diaries arise their erotic tone. The artist openly and ironically speaks of one-time love, self-sacrificing trust and the naive play of a young woman towards maturity. With acquiring experience a young woman ascends the peak, where she could for the first time entirely embrace herself in artistic practice and peer into new perspectives. Murashkina blatantly juggles with a variety of symbols in her works and among the accumulated cultural codes of the epoches the perceiver will meet the attending symbols which will lead them through the tunnels of the artist’s world. For example, the eyes on the nipples are a long-standing image of hypersensitivity, the ability to rely on deep irrational inner instruments of cognition of the world. A book unfolded on the knees is the pursuit of rational knowledge, which borders on physical desires and emotional elusiveness. The bed is the space of the most important life events like sleep, dreams, love, conception, birth and death. And the snakes, which are identified by the artist with femininity represent the elastic fineness, silence and fascinating sexuality. The Spanish artist Xavier Escala created the installation “I’m very shy.” based on Nina’s works, The artists’ tandem leads us to the key idea — harmony. This is an ideological display of the exposition and the symbolic act of sacrifice, which must be raised to itself, in order to leave everything unnecessary in the past and to allow it to exist in the future. The exhibition “On the Top!” is the search for harmony, maturity and triumph of love of Nina Murashkina. And it’s also a milestone and a bold statement: “I have come true!” To be continued. Galina Gleba

The project “On the Top!” is the the outcome of the creative process, the formation of the artist and personality. The kind of blossoming and flourishing time which is cutting off the odds. This is the triumph of Femininity. I create my own world, with its own symbols and melody. We should savor this strong rhythmic “song”, where everyone belongs to one another and the interaction with the audience is unforgettable, like a magical dream, like a delusive fairy tale, it is sometimes subconsciously scary, but what is the most amazing thing — you always want to come back there! My symbols

~ Book without words. Though it contains questions and exclamation marks. In fact reading gives answers to many questions, you read, and you seem to be slightly touching the thoughts of the author. I often depict books lying on the lap of a woman. This is a symbol of dualism. The moment of tormenting her nature between soul and body. There are many examples like this in literature. One of the most striking is Anna Karenina: surrendering to a passionate lover or staying an honorable wife?

~ Gold background: “..This is something dazzling, eternal, Egyptian-like, it’s like gypsy’s teeth, reflecting many of your faces when smiling, and this is also silence, because silence is both valuable and good, and you can be a little smarter at this time, this is my grandmother’s inheritance and the dowry wrapped and buried in the ground, it is scattered rhinestones on the jeans of all the fashionistas of decent neighbourhoods, this is a set of chain around the necks of gorgeous beauties selling fresh chicken, milk and farmer cheese on the market, and those chains get stuck between insatiable breasts and neck lines, this is a golden bidet right in the “bedroom of your dreams”, this is the wealth you’ve never dreamt of, because you got it in the form of a light caressing rain, when the sunset is gold and beautiful, and your heart is gnawed by pain and yearning, and the gold of the sunset grinds this yearning.... and you feel like you are saturated with beauty, and suddenly...! it starts raining! Right in the sky! And it is desired and Gold.

Nina Murashkina

~ Bed. The most important things in life happen in bed. Sleep, love, conception of a new life, death, reveries, dreams. ~ Snake. For me, this is a powerful phallic symbol and it’s also a symbol of wisdom. I find its flexibility and soundless movement sexual! ~ Female breasts, there are eyes on them instead of nipples. They’re staring at you, crying and laughing, craving for love!

Ride my Tiger! d 150 cm, acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / detail / 2018

Triumph of Chastity! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

I fly! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

Your Feminism 35Ń&#x2026;50 cm / ink on the paper 2018

Lovers 35/35 cm, ink on the paper 2018

INSATIABLE detail of installation 2015-2018

On the Top!

Exhibition view / YermilovCentre 2018

On the Top!

Exhibition view / YermilovCentre 2018

On the Top! / Exhibition view / YermilovCentre

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too shy! / Installation, created in a collaboration with Xavier Escala / 2018

Triumph of Justice! Oval 120Ñ&#x2026;200 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

Save your Pride! d 150 cm / acrylic, canvas on a board / 2018 Collection of ArtHuss

Triumph of Love! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

Love me stronger! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018 / Collection of “Grynyov Art Foundation”

Ride my Tiger! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018./ Collection of “Grynyov Art Foundation”

Love me stronger! / details

ANGELS d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2017

ANGELS / detail

Sacrifice d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

Who is Next? d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

Who is Next? / details

My very own Lion! d 150 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, canvas on a board / 2018

My very own Lion! / details

Allegory of Cowardice 200Ñ&#x2026;215 cm / acrylic on the canvas / 2016 Collection of Pavel Martynov

Triumph of Justice Exhibition view / Yermilov Centre 500Ń&#x2026;300 cm Silhouettes / paper / 2018

Silhouette of “!” 70x100 cm / paper 2018

Silhouette of Justice 100x70 cm / paper 2018

Lily 35Ń&#x2026;35 cm / ink on the paper / 2018

The Target! 36Ń&#x2026;52 cm / ink on the paper / 2014

Fortissimo! 35х50 cm / ink on the paper / 2018 Collection of “Grynyov Art Foundation”

NINOCHKA 35х35 cm / ink on the paper / 2018

Deep red wine 35Ń&#x2026;50 cm / ink on the paper / 2017 private collection, USA.

Love me Stronger! 35x50 cm / ink on the paper 2018

I N S A T I A B L E !

INSATIABLE Installation / Yagallery / Ermilov Art Center 2015-2018

The “INSATIABLE” project was inspired by the works of such artists as Louise Bourgeois and Annette Messager. Performance and kitsch are the main focus here. However, the context has the innermost intimate basis. This reflects artist’s view of herself in grotesque self-portrait. It is also a search for the identity of female sexuality. There are two self-portraits. There are two alter-egos of the artist. The main subject is a velvet doll which has long legs suspended from the ceiling, the doll is endlessly and insatiably drinking vodka or tea. She’s drinking from a samovar*, both cozy and defiant. There is an allegory here that shows the craving to get more and more, despite the satiety! The second portrait is another face of the author, it is a 5-meter long caterpillar with a lot of arms which want to take everything around, but she has a black bandage because she doesn’t know what exactly she wants and what she needs to take! The installation “Rain from the Black Ovals” complements the project. There is a man in each oval: Falling, Being bored, Desiring, Flying, ripping, etc.… Black Ovals are the food for the caterpillar. Painting emphasizes all objects with the visual images. We could see here “NOSTALGIA” and “Flight of Free Women”, and “Humiliation”.

INSATIABLE Detail of the installation Yagallery / Ermilov Art Center 2015-2018

INCOMPATIBLE Of internal pain. Of the childhood percepted through the dark window. Of pain evolved into sugar. Of the carnival without an ending or a beginning. Of how I love you. And how I don’t. From morning till night. When I open my eyes and the pines are wearing crimson...

You’re flying through them touching the needles with your body. You’re flying to me and I’m plucking these needles, licking the strawberries and you’re like a dessert. Beautiful and insatiable like me. This gun is just a lighter. And our love is Smoke. You’re falling like a dim star. We’re falling together like dull stars. There are lots of us. You’re inside the black ovals. The black ovals are my food tonight. I gulp them like saliva. It’s regular and essential. Nina Murashkina

INSATIABLE Detail of the installation Yagallery / Ermilov Art Center 2015-2018

The work of Nina Murashkina is a reflection of her deep personal stories. I’m very very INSATIABLE. I want plenty, at once and much more. And the best. And painlessly.

So that the volume turns inside out and up. So that we forget about “now”, and remember “back then.” The smell of Soviet nylon negligee, yellow stains of sweat and smeared mascara in the lilac air scream about the blood on a sore face that is yours. It is on my lips, along with my mother’s artificial pearls which have been worn out long time now and will no longer flicker in the night lights of the tavern. It shakes so much on the last seat of the bus that you’re getting a seat there and dreaming... Every bump of the road is yours! Yours only. The rest of the passengers avoid taking back seats. But you don’t”, — Nina Murashkina writes in one of her latest texts. The “Insatiable” project of 2015 in Dnepr (Ya Gallery art center) kept visualizing the experience of the intimate sphere of the artist’s perception. The basis of the exhibition was built on the close connection between the installations, paintings, collages, flavored with Nina Murashkina’s memoirs, her emotional contiguity to Louise Bourgeois and Annette Messager. The concept of insatiability in the context of the presented works does not outlive itself with just one side of the artist’s life. On the contrary, redundancy manifests itself everywhere, for example, in passion, which gives a state of exaltation, and then, as it often happens in life which stings the face with tears. This is the feeling, when it becomes impossible to balance on the blade of a knife, and it only remains to dance. Consequently, according to the artist, “it all starts with the Doll”, that is, a peculiar Self-portrait, presented in the form of an installation — a huge blindfold

centipede. The dialogue to this grotesque image is no less the autobiographical object “Insatiable”. “This is a doll with a huge mouth and a bust, a long, worm-like black body and legs suspended from the ceiling. She is drinking tea or vodka. And she feels either good or bad”, Murashkina comments in one of her recent interviews. The presence of installations in the project indicates Nina Murashkina’s thirst for tactility, which causes the transition from the satiate pictorial flatness to volume. The artist’s ruthlessness to the viewer is enhanced in proportion to her desire to rub the body of her own dreams and to feel the fleshness of what is now embodied in reality. Working with cloth, threads and fragments of childhood in the form of scattered dolls on the floor, which are no longer dolls, but images of unborn children, Nina Murashkina clings to the texture where all the volume of naked femininity manifests itself. This image is close to Lysistrata by Aristophanes who agitates women of all Greece to fight for peace, by refusing to caress their men with the ironic expression “neither to the husband, nor the lover”. However, the dominant image of the Centipede-doll has its cruel side. This creature needs regular “feeding”. And all kinds of “heroes”, embodied in the “Rain from the Black Ovals” series of collages, become this feeding. The possibility of their reproduction together with the insatiability finally eclipses the mind, but not the doll’s mind itself, but the audience’s. While the “Black Ovals” are growing, the dazzled audience no longer notices how they become prisoners in one of the ovals.

Katerina Nosko

* A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in Russia.

Humiliation 200x150 cm acrylic, canvas / 2015 collection of Pavel Martynov

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be waiting for You! d 150 cm / acrylic, canvas 2014

Madam Pisizhu d 150 cm / acrylic, canvas / 2014 / collection of Pavel Martynov

Baby, please forgive me! oval 80x100 cm / acrylic, golden leaves, a board / 2016 private collection, Belgium.

Galleries representation “Yagallery”, Kiev, Ukraine: http://yagallery.com/en/authors/nina-murashkina “Nicholas Treadwell Gallery”, Vienna, Austria: http://www.superhumanism.eu/ Works have been exhibited since 1999. Participant of plenty exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Works are in private collections in Ukraine, Austria, Poland, Russia, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, Spain, Italy, Chech Republic Belgium, China,

An Artist, Art-Curator, Performer. The main topic of my research in art is the psychology of sexuality, personal drama, raised in cult. I‘m brave, bold and fearless, I‘m erotic and see the world in an erotic context. I like to talk about what you prefer to save in silent way. That’s about you dreamt of something, but did not expect to be aware. About the delicious details from the Subconscious and the extreme limits allowed in the social relations. As for the style, it is a synthetic combination of purely feminine perception of the World with a deep ground of classical art education, it is a parallel to the Ukrainian naive art and Kitsch, filled with citations from works of masterpieces of art history. I create big format bright colors paintings, installations includes ready-made objects, knitted items, embroidery, and the drawings related with my own erotic stories and performances. Turning to the themes of Eroticism and Body, the experience of dreams, I immerse them in the theatrical environment. The artworks may appear upon first glance playful and whimsical, but it ultimately encourage viewers to take a serious look at the complexity of ideas on display. My plots are macabre and quite grotesque, with full of irony and a chance to laugh or to cry. To love or to die. But for sure, to believe in this Magic by author’s erotic world.

Solo Projects: 2018 “On the Top!” / Ermilov Art Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine. “NINOCHKA” presentation of artbook / BOOK Arsenal, “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kiev, Ukraine; “BAD/BED” performance / KIEV ART FAIR, Toronto business center, Kiev, Ukraine; Personal art evening / “It’s NOT the LOUVR” gallery and bar. Kiev, Ukraine; “NINOCHKA” solo project at the exhibition “Equally different” Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine / Kiev, Ukraine. 2016 “Black Chocolate in Gold” / Glo’art residence in Belgium; “I am not afraid!” / Museum of Dreams in Kiev, Ukraine; “The Full Moon!...” / “Spasskaya 45” gallery, Nikolaev, Ukraine; “I want Love!” / “A3 - Gallery” Moscow, Russia.; “SERENDIPITY” / “KZ” gallery, Kiev, Ukraine; “Baby, please forgive me!” Personal art evening.“The Chocolate House” / branch of the Kiev national museum of the Russian art. Ukraine. 2015 “INSATIABLE”, Contemporary Art Kiev 10. / “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kiev, Ukraine. / art centre “Yagallery”, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. 2014 “I LOVE YOU” / Forum of the art ContemporaryArtKyiv projects - 9, “Art Arsenal Gallery”. Kiev, Ukraine.

1985 – was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. 2000 – 2005 – Studied at Donetsk Art College (Graphics Design). 2005 – 2009 – Studied at Kharkiv Art Design Academy (Monumental Painting). 2011 – Studied at Kyiv Art Academy (Stage Design and Film) 2012 – Poland, Krakow. Art Academy of Jan Mateyko (Paintings). 2009 – became a member of National Ukrainian State of Artists Union.

Curatorial Projects: 2015 “TOY STORY” curator project/ ArtZbirka Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine; “Woman Secret” curator project in the Contemporary Art Kiev project 10. / “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kiev, Ukraine. 2014 “Golden Rain over us” curator project /10 exhibition hall “VDNKH”. Kiev, Ukraine.

Nina Murashkina

Selected group Projects: 2018 “Contemporary Art Women” Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine./ Kiev, Ukraine; “The GODDESS” collaborative project with Xavier Escala / “Sala dels Trinitaris” exhibition hall, Villafranca del Penedes, Spain; “Marry Me!” women’s project / museum of Kiev history. Ukraine. 2017 “Forbidden Dreams” The performance “TOGETHER”with Xavier Escala / “Arteria BCN” gallery, Barcelona, Spain; “Imaginary identities. To have or to be?” Artists Residency / Ermilov Art Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine; “Hypnosis” project. Art Residency / Xavier Escala’s studio, Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues. Spain; International Symposium of Contemporary Art “BIRUCHIY”/ Island Biruchiy, Ukraine; “Women’s project” / “Nicolas Treadwell’s Gallery”, Vienna, Austria; “Artists Childhood” / “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kiev, Ukraine; “The Art of Menschlichkeit” / “Nicolas Treadwell’s Gallery”, Vienna, Austria; “The Siren” a project – collaboration with Spanish sculptor Xavier Escala / Penza Art Residency, Russia. 2016 ZINE festival / Vienna, Austria; “Earthly Delights” / “Nicolas Treadwell’s Gallery”, Vienna, Austria; “Dialoges” / “Lavra” gallery, Kiev, Ukraine; “Kunstlersommer Ottensheim 2016 “Honzik” Gallery /Aigen, Austria; “The Heritage”/ Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine; “Involved to Beauty” / Mansion Uvarova Countess. Kiev, Ukraine; “Women’s Art Project” / Exhibition in the Goverment’s Hall. Kiev, Ukraine; “Women’s Art Project” / “The Chocolate House”, branch of the Kiev national museum of the Russian art. Ukraine; “Short stories. Contemporary Artists from Ukraine” Imago Mundi project / The catalogue presentation. “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kiev, Ukraine; “Ergo Sum” “Dukat Gallery”/ Kiev, Ukraine. 2015 “Green Life” Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine./ Kyiv, Ukraine. Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition/ Cnina, Shanghai, “Chun Gallery” International Symposium of Contemporary Art “BIRUCHIY”. “10/15”/ islandBiruchiy, Ukraine. Communication. International ArtSymposium / Carpathian mountains, Ukraine. “Imagination Format Studio” / Theatre presentation

“Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kyiv, Ukraine. “Dialogs. Time to listening” / “Lavra Gallery”, Kyiv, Ukraine. Project “Independence coefficient” / American house, Kyiv, Ukraine. Project “Practice of Modifications” / Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine / Kyiv, Ukraine. ART Residence “KunstlersommerOttensheim 2015” /Ottensheim. Austria. Exhibition in gallery “Honzik” /AigenAustria, “Ridicule” /DymchukGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. “The charitable Art project for the safe of life” /“Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kyiv, Ukraine Project “Let my people go!”/ Vozdvizhenka Art House, Kyiv, Ukraine. Auction “Golden ratio”, pre - auction exhibition / art-centreМ17, Kyiv. Ukraine. Project “To be a place” / hotel hall InterContinental and ArtCult Foundation Kyiv, Ukraine. Contemporary-art auction. Pre - auction exhibition / Museum “Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine”. Auctio house “Dykat and fund of cultural initiatives “Art Huss” Kyiv, Ukraine. Project “ZERO” / Ermilov art centre, Kharkov, Ukraine. “Other Land” / “Come in Gallery”, Kharkov, Ukraine. 2014 Nationalforum “Donkult”/ Museum of Spiritual treasures of Ukraine. The exhibition program, Kyiv. “Isn’tpresentmoretears!”/ Artresidence “ArtStudioMuzychi”, villageMuzychi, Kyiv region, Ukraine. “Probability theory”/ Institute of problems of contemporary art, Kyiv, Ukraine. “The War is She”/ exhibitionhall “Magelan”, Kharkov, Ukraine. Auction “Golden ratio” / Kyiv. Ukraine. International Symposium of Contemporary Art “BIRUCHIY”/ island Biruchiy, Ukraine. ”New Ukrainian Dream” / Forbes project, “Art Arsenal Gallery”. Kyiv, Ukraine. “Aggression”/ 10 exhibition hall “VDNKH” Kyiv, Ukraine. International Sculpture Symposium. Paintings Programe / Russia, Penza. ”Paradise Gardens” / Art Residence, Russia, Penza. “Hi, Naivety!”/ exhibition of naive art, Vereshchagin’s museum, Nikolaev, Ukraine. 2013 “Samovar” / IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine. Antin’s Collection Gallery / ContemporaryArtKyiv Art Arsenal Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine “Art-concept” / Symposium-plein-air Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine.

Texts by Nina Murashkina, Galina Gleba, Katerina Nosko. Design by Irina Olenina Photos by Valeria Buchuk, Xavier Escala. Edited by ArtHuss