Events

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF — WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN?

29 November 2023

Feelium Gallery & Studios

7 Kensington Mall, London W8 4EB, UK

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF — WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN?

Maria Gvardeitseva's performance will explore the social taboos imposed on memory and the so-called minefields of memory that we are re-experiencing due to the new and ongoing wars around us. Performance participants will join the so-called memory table as a space of transformative grief, a dialog with the past and the present. How to distinguish between dogs and wolves? Friends and enemies? Phantasm from ideology? What remains to be seen?

NE-NOVĒRTĒJAMS / PRICE-LESS

9 May 2023

M/Darbnīca

Aristida Briāna 9, Rīga

NE-NOVĒRTĒJAMS / PRICE-LESS

The performance will take place in a cell-like space and draws on elements of collective memory to create an engaging experience for the audience. Maria Gvardeitseva explores official and individual memories of wars and traumatic events. She offers visitors to join a so-called memorial table as a space of transforming grief and sorrow, and a dialog with the past. What new taboos and what new minefields of memory will emerge?

5-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES

13-29 April 2023

Fitzrovia Gallery

139 Whitfield St, London

5-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES

In the upcoming project at Fitzrovia Gallery in London «5-Minute Bedtime Stories», Maria Gvardeitseva explores the transformative potential of fairy tales to cope with the pain of divorce and separation. In the installation, you discover how stepping outside traditional norms and violating societal expectations can lead to new possibilities and refreshed perspective on life. And a variety of possible "happily ever afters."

MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL

1-31 March 2023

The Roots Gallery

Pisa, Italy

MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL

In 2016, due to Belarus political reality of increasing terror of Lukashenko’s dictatorship Maria Gvardeitseva left her homeland and immigrated to Latvia. In 2022 the process of citizenship refusal is finalized and she has to deliver her passeport to the nearest Consulate. The artist shapes this auto-exile, a painful separation from her Motherland in « Migrant’s Altar. Farewell ».

TERRA PATRIA LIBERI

18-20 January 2023

The Goldsmiths University

London, UK

TERRA PATRIA LIBERI

Сhildhood Memories Archive of Shaping Patriotism. Group show with Yawen Cai, Hamish Macdougall and Graciela Wimmer

DRYGVA. BREATHE IN – BREATHE OUT

16-30 September 2022

Mark Rothko Art Center

Mihaila iela 3, Daugavpils, Latvia

DRYGVA. BREATHE IN – BREATHE OUT

Maria Gvardeitseva's project, DRYGVA. BREATHE IN – BREATHE OUT, explores her Belarussian roots and the disappearing memories of the original Belarussian identity. The project creates an immersive space that recreates a marshland, with its unique atmosphere and colors, blurring the line between life and death. Visitors who step into the space are taken on an unexpected journey, guided by the portraits of Belarussian women, who spark to life in Maria's marshland universe.