Marina Razheva — Portrait
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MARINA RAZHEVA

Conceptual, interdisciplinary artist
Born 1969, USSR · Based in Hungary

Razheva’s practice unfolds through situations, gestures, and site-specific conditions, working across performance, land art, installation, photography, video, and objects. Her work explores perception, transformation, ephemerality, memory, landscape, and traces.

Since 1998, she has realized 30+ solo projects and participated in 100+ exhibitions internationally.

Her work has been presented in the context of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Illustration in Haifa, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, and international land art and video projects.

Selected recent projects include Golden Apples (2024–2026), HartLand (2019–2025), Golden Eggs (2002–2024), The Angle of View (2002–2025), and Stone’s Score (2026).

Her works are held in public collections including the State Russian Museum, National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), and Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg.

Razheva is co-founder of Maler’s Brigade (since 2004) and the collaborative duo R² (since 1989), and a member of PRO SYMPOSION (since 2024).

Marina Razheva (b. 1969, USSR) is a conceptual, interdisciplinary artist based in Hungary. Her practice unfolds through situations, gestures, and site-specific conditions, often beginning with minimal interventions that shift perception and reveal what is already present. Working across performance, land art, installation, photography, and video, she explores transformation, ephemerality, memory, and the traces left by encounters between people, materials, and places.

Her background in biology informs her attention to processes of transformation, decay, and temporal change. Since 1998, Razheva has realized more than 30 solo projects and participated in over 100 international exhibitions. Her work has been presented at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Ural Industrial Biennale, and the Biennale of Illustration in Haifa.

Razheva is co-founder of Maler’s Brigade (since 2004) and the collaborative duo R² (since 1989), and a member of PRO SYMPOSION (since 2024).

Marina Razheva (b. 1969, USSR) is a conceptual, interdisciplinary artist based in Hungary. Her practice is grounded in the exploration of perception, transformation, ephemerality, memory, and the traces that remain after encounters between people, materials, and places.

Rather than treating the artwork as a fixed object, Razheva often works through situations, gestures, and site-specific conditions. Her interventions are frequently minimal: a temporary action, a gesture within a landscape, an alteration of how a familiar space is perceived, or an encounter that leaves no permanent physical change. The work emerges through the relationship between the intervention, the site, and the viewer’s perception.

Working across performance, land art, installation, photography, video, and objects, Razheva has developed a practice that moves between the material and the immaterial, the visible and the barely perceptible. Recurring concerns include transformation, disappearance, memory, landscape, mythology, and the passage of time. Her background in biology contributes to her attention to processes of growth, decay, change, and adaptation.

Since 1998, Razheva has realized more than 30 solo projects and participated in over 100 international exhibitions and initiatives. Her work has been presented in the context of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Biennale of Illustration in Haifa, and the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, alongside international land art and video projects.

Selected projects include Golden Apples (2024–2026), HartLand (2019–2025), Golden Eggs (2002–2024), The Angle of View (2002–2025), and Wedding of the Tower and the Metro (2006). Her works are held in public collections, including the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / NCCA, and the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.

Razheva is co-founder of Maler’s Brigade (since 2004) and the collaborative duo R² (since 1989), developed around the methodology of Revealed Realism. She is also a member of PRO SYMPOSION in Hungary (since 2024).