Maryna Makarenko was born 1990 in Ukraine.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Maryna Makarenko's work spans a variety of formats, from films and video installations to solo and collective performances and workshops. In her work she addresses the phenomena of transient states: processes and identities that fall into the spaces of physical non-existence conceiving parallel etherealities and fictions.
EDUCATION
2021 Meisterschüler*in, post-graduate program, Art and Media, Berlin University of the Arts
2020 Diploma in Art and Media, Berlin University of the Arts
2017 B.A. Visual Communication, Berlin University of the Arts
2011 B.A. Public Relations, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
SELECTED SHOWS/SCREENINGS
2021 Kunstmuseum Ulm, FUGE. Zwischen übermorgen und gestern, Ulm
2021 Raum on Demand, Alte Münze,
Interlock, Berlin, DE
2020 Scottish Queer International Film
Festival (SQIFF), UK
2020 Fffriedrich Gallery, Side by Side,
Frankfurt am Main, DE
2020 Images Festival, In Activity,
Toronto, CA
2020 Museum Kubus, Video Works,
Bochum, DE
2020 Syker Vorwerk - Center for
contemporary art, Fluidity, Bremen, DE
2020 Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv,
Interconnected Chains, Tel Aviv, IL
2019 58th Venice Biennale, Ukrainian
pavilion, curated by Open Group, performer, Venice, IT
2019 Macao, Saturnalia Festival,
Milan, IT
2019 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Videonale.17,
Bonn, DE
2018 Literaturhaus Berlin, Touching from a Distance, Berlin, DE
2018 Luststreifen Film Festival Basel,
Basel, SW
2018 Martin-Gropius Bau, Welt Ohne Aussen, Existential Futurities,
Berlin, DE
2018 Rama Em Flor Festival, Lisbon, PT
2017 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Kombi 5, Berlin, DE
2017 RIXC Art and Science Festival, Riga, LV
2017 Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, SP
2017 Augmented Cinema, Toronto, CA
2016 Trinity Square, Toronto, CA
2016 Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival,
Copenhagen, DK
2016 Scotty Enterprises, Personal Performance vs. Selfie, Berlin, DE
2015 Kino Arsenal, Experimental Film and
Media Art, Berlin, DE
2015 Power Plant Toronto, CA
2015 Vorspiel of Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2013 Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, CA
2013 Videoholica Festival, Refocus!, Varna, Bulgaria, BG
RESDIDENCIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Queerscope - Short film grant
2017-20 Deutschlandsstipendium
2020 Two Roots, Zentrum Gedankendach &
Villa Leipzig
2018 Scholarship from Women´s Representatives of the Berlin University of the Arts
2017 DAAD Graduation Scholarship
Homepage: marynamakarenko.com