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Masha Maroz

Masha Maroz

area: Applied Art

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© Masha Maroz

© Masha Maroz

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Key Facts

nationality

Belarus

area

Applied Art

residence

Minsk

recommending institution

BMEIA

time period

September 2025 - October 2025

Masha Maroz ist eine interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Ethnografin und Designerin (geb. 1991) mit Sitz in Minsk (Belarus). Sie schloss ihr Studium an der Belarussischen Staatlichen Akademie der Künste (2014) als Kostümbildnerin ab.  Sie reflektiert über die Verbindung zwischen Mythologie, kollektivem Gedächtnis und Vitalität.
In ihrer künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Arbeit untersucht Masha Maroz den historischen belarussischen Kontext durch die Linse der Synthetik zwischen archaischen Formen und Technologien und geht von der Idee aus, das transformative Potenzial der traditionellen Kultur in der vorherrschenden sozio-politischen Matrix zu aktivieren.
Maroz ist Gründerin und Kuratorin der Plattform Past Perfect, die sich für die Erhaltung des ethnografischen Erbes von Belarus einsetzt. Expeditionen in die Region Palessie sind ein wichtiger Teil ihrer Forschung. Sie verwendet eine breite Palette von Medien und Formen, um ihre künstlerische Sprache zu entwickeln, z. B. Installationen, Textilien, Videos, Fotos, Grafiken und physische Objekte. Sie ist Autorin und Herausgeberin von Lоng Way Home, das im Dezember 2024 erscheint.

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Project info

During her residency at MQ Masha Maroz is going to work on a new analogue graphic series addressing to the  notion of sacred time in archaic mythology and ethnoreligious worldview of her ancestral tribes from Belarusian Palessie.
With a deep interest in modes of cyclicity and renewal she sees  the decoding of ancient knowledge of cosmogonies as a meaningful tool for influencing everyday social reality and reflects on how the human being is sought to understand and describe the world, going within and beyond.
From the very beginning cryptography remained the one possible language that keeps the tension between the evident and hidden, rational and mystic. Grounded on on this method of encryption in the upcoming series of graphic works Maroz would refer to different levels of interaction with forces that cannot be captured in rational forms of knowledge, but are the cause and condition for the existence of all forms of life.

Masha Maroz is a guest at the MQ as part of the ASoP (Artists Solidarity Programme) in cooperation with the Austrian Foreign Ministry (BMEIA). This programme supports artists who, for political or social reasons, cannot or can only present their art publicly at considerable personal risk. This can affect artists from war zones as well as from countries where free artistic creation is suppressed. This programme pays particular attention to the European cultural area east of the borders of the European Union.

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