Villa Serpentara Fellowship 2026
Marina Naprushkina
*1981 in Minsk (BLR)
Lives in Berlin (DE)
Web: marina-naprushkina.de
Instagram: @marina_naprushkina
Section: Visual Arts
Vita
Marina Naprushkina is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily outside institutional spaces, focusing on building networks and structures based on self-organisation. She founded the Office for Antipropaganda and initiated the New Neighborhood/Moabit initiative in Berlin in 2013. Naprushkina has participated in numerous biennials, including the Kyiv Perennial 23/24 and 2017, Bucharest (2012), Berlin (2011), and Istanbul (2009). Her work has also been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Bochum (2024), Kunsthaus Graz (2023), EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art (2022), and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2020). Naprushkina has taught as a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.
Residency
In the project With a View of the Dream, Marina Naprushkina examines current forms of extractivism under patriarchal power in today’s authoritarian systems as well as access to resource-securing recreation. The focus is on the changes in urban and rural landscapes, their increasing exclusivity – and thus the question: Who owns the most beautiful view? The effects on ecosystems and working bodies are examined. The research period ranges from the 1990s to the present at the Serpentara. Feminist-influenced practices and narratives make alternative forms of access and resource use visible.