Biography
Marta Djourina, born 1991 in Sofia, studied since 2009 at three of Berlin’s universities. Starting at the Hum- boldt University with Art History, she continued her studies with the focus on Art Theory and Technology at the Technical University Berlin and studies since 2012 at the University of the Arts with professors Pia Fries, Gregory Cumins and currently Christine Streuli. After high school Djourina received a DAAD-Scholarship, graduated one semester at the Glasgow School of Art and won the photography competition PARIS X BER- LIN. 2016 she received the recognition prize by the IBB (Investment Bank Berlin) given yearly for photography in cooperation with the foundation “Karl-Hofer” at the University of the Arts Berlin. Aside from this, her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions abroad including Greece, Scotland, Austria, Norway and a number of shows in Berlin. Part of her last exhibitions took place in Turin, at Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin) and Goethe Institute Sofia.
In 2017/2018 Djourina was a scholarship holder of the Dorothea-Konwiarz Foundation, received recently a graduations scholarship by DAAD and a project financing of the collective FROON TIMMER, which Djourina is a founding member of. In 2018 she was also nominated for the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art and the Award for Young Art by Centre Bagatelle in Berlin and won a scholarship by Karl Hofer Foundation.
About
In my experiments with light, body, time and space, I explore what is photography. My works differ in production and appearance and yet they have a com- mon idea underlying: With every project, I test photography’s ability to bring out the Hidden to visibility and to fix the Ephemeral as an image. Unique cam- era-less works, blind drawings with light, painterly direct exposures, experimental, folded work on the border with objects, filtergramms’ and interactions with pinhole cameras form the core of my practice. The paper, with its properties of absorbing light, becomes the bearer of painterly traces. With punctual light sources, laser pointers or colored diodes, I leave from the ditance traces of color on the photo paper. The apparatus and the tools of the working process become acting parts: whether in the shape of a small pinhole camera obscura as in the works “From Me / To Me” for wich I sent my- self through the post active cameras to document their journey or in “Dematerialization of everyday life” (2016) for which zoomed into the metariality of everyday objects.
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Gallery
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2019.
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- Photographer: Marta Djourina
- Material: Direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique
- Width: 183.00 mm Height: 600.00 mm Depth: mm
- Copyright: Marta Djourina
- References: UdK Berlin, Meisterschülerpreis
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
Photography
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- Photographer: Marta Djourina
- Material: Direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique
- Width: 381.00 mm Height: 250.00 mm Depth: mm
- Copyright: Marta Djourina
- References: Marie DuPasquier, The Others Art Fair, Turin
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Material: Direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique
- Width: 127.00 mm Height: 180.00 mm Depth: mm
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Photographer: Radostin Sedevchev
- Material: Direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique
- Width: 510.00 mm Height: 250.00 mm Depth: mm
- References: BAZA Award for Contemporary Art - Nominees Exhibition 2018, City Art Gallery Sofia
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Photographer: Radostin Sedevchev
- Width: 183.00 mm Height: 550.00 mm Depth: mm
- References: Goethe Institute Bulgarien
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Photographer: Marta Djourina
- Width: 21.00 mm Height: 29.00 mm Depth: mm
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Photographer: Marta Djourina
- Material: Direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, photogram, unique
- Width: 21.00 mm Height: 29.00 mm Depth: mm
Marta Djourina
Untitled, 2018.
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- Photographer: Radostin Sedevchev
- Width: 510.00 mm Height: 250.00 mm Depth: mm
Marta Djourina
From Me / To Me II, 2016.
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- Photographer: Radostin Sedevchev
- Material: exposed photo paper
