Nina Murashkina (born 3 January 1985) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist whose practice includes figurative art, installation art, and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally, including at Odessa Fine Art Museum at Ukraine, NordArt in Germany, Cromwell Place gallery complex in the United Kingdom,[1] and the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona in Spain. In 2023, she received the Art FAD Award for her project Still Waters Run Deep.[2]
Murashkina has described her approach as "magical feminism", incorporating symbolic imagery, references to Ukrainian folk traditions, and representations of the female body.[3]
In 2012, she completed an artistic residency at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland, through the Gaude Polonia scholarship program. During the residency, she worked under the supervision of Polish artist and professor Andrzej Bednarczyk.[3]
In 2017, she married sculptor Xavier Escala,[5] which led to collaborative art projects in Spain[6] and the United States.[7]
In 2023, Murashkina received the Best Design of the Year award at the A-FAD Art Awards in Barcelona for her ceramic series Still Waters Run Deep, selected from among 33 finalists.[9] According to La Vanguardia, the jury highlighted the work's "formal strength in its entirety, clarity of the discourse, gaze and the narrative on desire, and the fusion of traditional techniques with a contemporary resolution." The jury also noted that Murashkina "bases her work on a 'magic feminism', a sensual and metaphorical world built on her own sexuality and life experiences."[10]
Style and themes
Murashkina describes her artistic approach as "magical feminism",[3] a visual language that incorporates symbolic imagery, elements of folk tradition, and representations of the female body. Her work emphasizes intuition, eroticism, and ritual,[11] and has been interpreted as offering an alternative to overtly political feminist approaches by centering personal mythology and embodied experience.[12]
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