Artist Gallery

CV: Maria Zaborovskaya

Maria Zaborovskaya
PUNKT,
Finland -- NIFCA at Suomenlinna in Helsinki

Born 1971, in Leningrad, Russia

Education

1999-00 Berlin-Weisensee Higher Arts School. Speciality - Communication Design. Berlin, Germany
1997-98 Completed a placement at the Berlin-Weisensee Higher Arts School.
1992-98 St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry, faculty “Design”, diploma in a speciality Environmental Design

Solo shows

2001 Mythological Anatomy, with Nikolay Barabanov in the Animal Anatomy Department Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Veterinary Medicine,
1994 Dokumenty, with Nikolay Barabanov. Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Selected group shows

2003 Shtuchki. PRO ARTE Institute, St. Petersburg.
2002
The Bread Project.
Perpetuum Art gallery, Kostroma, Russia.
A6 Format. Exhibition hall of the Russian Designers’ Union, St. Petersburg.
2001
III Petersburg Modulor-2001 Design Exhibition-Competition. Manege Central Exhibition hall Hall, St Petersburg.
First prize and gold diploma in the Project of the Year category, Bronze diploma in the Art Design category.
Re/MIR and Re/MIR 2,
Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg, Art Agents Galerie, Hamburg, Germany.
2000 Comics festival Fumetto. Lucerne, Switzerland.
1999 7th All Russian exhibition-competition Design '99. Central House of Artists, Moscow. Diploma laureate
of the Russian national prize Victory for the best work of the year in art-design.
1998 Presentation of the 100 Projects DESIGN group. Academy of Industrial and Decorative Arts, St.Petersburg.
1997
Dogs Exhibition. Manege, St.Petersburg.
The best design of the year. The first prize of the category Environmental design. Academy of Industrial and Decorative Arts, St.Petersburg.
1993 Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg.
1991 Agasfer (exhibition of Art-Books). Moscow.

Another activity

2001/03 Teacher at the Nevsky University (Illustration course).
2002 Member of the Professors group since with Andrey Lublinsky.
2000 Joined the Graphic-Design section of the Russian Designers’ Union
1995 Member of the 100. Projects DESIGN group with Boremir Bakharev and Andrey Lublinsky.

Grants

PUNKT Residency Programme of NIFCA. Helsinki, Finland. 2003
PRO ARTE Institute grant. Sharing in PRO ARTE Institute project Shtuchki, with Alexandra Kaurova. 2003
SLEIPNIR grant from the Council of Ministers of Nordic Countries 2002
PRO ARTE Institute grant. Sharing in project Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum. 2001
Russian Federation Ministry of Culture grant. 2001
DAAD one year grant, Berlin, Germany. 1999/00



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