Maria Pavlovskaya

Born in 1986 in Moscow, Russia. Graduated Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in 2007, worked as an actress in Gorky Moscow Art Theatre till 2009. Took up photography in 2007, member of Russian Photo Union since 2009. Took part in FéROCES international photography festival 2011 (France) and in the 5th Biennale of Contemporary Photography in Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, 2019). The work has appeared in Afisha, Sobaka.ru, OK, Sekret Firmy, TimeOut, St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine, Projector, the Blueprint, The Village etc.

Solo exhibitions:
Socks and Wings, Polis-Design gallery, Moscow, 2008
Flight Instinct, as a part of Living Space project, St. Petersburg, 2010
ZIL, Personal case, within the Industrial Art-Residence of the ZIL House of Culture, Moscow, 2016
SKORO PRIDU GALYA, one-day show, St. Petersburg, 2018

Group exhibitions/Collaborations:
Ode to Friend, a group show at Yaroslavl State Art Museum, May 2009
Two Towns, a group show at Yaroslavl State Art Museum, December 2009
I don’t need this town without you, in collaboration with Mikhail Pavlovsky, Stachka gallery, St. Petersburg, 2010
A Parte, in collaboration with Mikhail Pavlovsky, Theatre Center "Na Strastnom", Moscow, 2012
A Parte, in collaboration with Mikhail Pavlovsky, Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 2013
At present, in collaboration with Mikhail Pavlovsky, Writers' Bookshop (Knizhnaya Lavka Pisateley), St. Petersburg, 2015
From Memory, in collaboration with Mikhail Pavlovsky, Momentography polaroid store, St. Petersburg, 2015
Keep Your Eyes Peeled, a group show at Aff Galerie, Berlin, 2017

Books:
ZIL, Moscow, 2017