BIO
Ksenia born in Russia, Siberia. Lives and works in Batumi, Georgia.
Practices painting, performative and site-specific installation, curatorial work, video, scenography.
Focuses on states of presence, transition, fragility of inner structures, memory, and silence.
Co-founder of the creative space “Merapi house” (Batumi, 2022, now closed).
Active member of art communities “tmp_space” and “Particles”.
Since 2025, she has been a resident of “A2 Galerie” Potsdam, Germany.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ksenia Malurika (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, performance, sound, and installation. Her practice unfolds where inner sensation meets the natural world — where emotion takes shape, becomes space, becomes image. Raised in Siberia and trained as a painter, she grew up listening to silence: forests, weather, the breath of wind. These presences remain with her. Nature, for Ksenia, is not background — it reflects fragility, transition, longing. Her work is a way of staying close to what cannot be held.
Painting is her first language. The series about oceans is not about water. It’s a study of rhythm, attention, memory. The Person Inside captures emotional tension at its most fleeting. She works intuitively, allowing color, texture, and silence to move equally. Since 2020, she has brought sound into her practice — field recordings, ambient structures, voice. Some of these pieces are made together with her husband, combining natural sounds, video, and a sense of time that breathes. Her musical background sharpens this sensitivity. What emerges are works you hear as much as see.
In recent years her language became more transparent. Gestures more spare, yet more urgent. A soft minimalism that carries weight. After rupture, there was clarity. Sincerity remains the center of her work — not as style, but as position. A quiet refusal to distance herself from feeling. Now based in Batumi, Georgia, she is part of the artist-run initiatives tmp_space and Particles, and co-founder of the now-closed Merapi house. Her focus remains: presence, as something sensed before it is understood.
CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
– “Utopia” at Ortachala Art Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Art exhibition at “Make creative space” Batumi, Georgia
2024
– “Rubezh, dead” at Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
–“Identity” at Itaka books, Tbilisi, Georgia
– “Particles” at Auditoria booksbar, Tbilisi, Georgia
– “End of summer fest” at Loft 4, Batumi, Georgia
– “White: The Beginning / The End,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– “Far From Home / vol.2,” festival “Human” Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
– “Eco festival Ecology & Art,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2023
– “Fragile Structure,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– “Borders,” online & offline exhibition, Machindgauri, Georgia
– “Being Here: Particles,” Art Laboratory, Machindgauri, Georgia
– “Being Here: Particles,” Tato ART SPACE, Bridge Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
– “February,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– “Closure,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2022
– “Presence,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– “Old Batumi Market,” kahaberi_showroom, Batumi, Georgia
2020
– “Première Vision Paris,” Maison de la Mutualité, France
– “Poetic Petersburg,” Igor Minakov Award, Raphael Hall of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg
2014
– “Retrospective Exhibition of Student Works,” City Center of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk
2013
– Interregional Youth Exhibition “Young Siberia,” International Exhibition Center “Siberia,” Krasnoyarsk, nomination “unique graphics” and “easel painting” (Ksenia Mikhailova)
– “Az Esm,” Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo
2012
– “February,” Exhibition Hall of the Art School, Novosibirsk
– “Meanings,” Creative Student Exhibition, Academic Library, Novosibirsk
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 – “Blue Dress,” Merapi House, Batumi, Georgia
2021 – “Dreams,” Massolite Bar, Moscow
2020 – Perfomance Art Project “Colorization,” Ubud, Indonesia
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 – “Closure,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2022 – “Presence,” tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
EDUCATION
2016–2020 — Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin (Faculty of Theatrical and Decorative Arts)
2009–2014 — Novosibirsk State Art School (Faculty of Painting)
ADDITIONAL COURSES
2023 — Video Art Laboratory (by Alena Tereshko)
2016 — “Body Dance” Performative Theatre (by Oleg Zhukovsky)
2012–2013 — Lessons in Contemporary Art (by Elena Bertollo)
RESIDENCIES
2024 (May) — Pas Residence, Berlin, Germany
ADDITIONAL
Since 2025 — resident of “A2 Galerie” Potsdam, Germany
2023–present — Member of art community “Particles”
2022–present — Member of art community “tmp_space”
2022 — Co-founder of “Merapi house,” Batumi, Georgia
2021 — Set designer for “We But You” (dir. Olga Tsekhnovitzer), State Academic Capella, St. Petersburg
2019–2020 — Performed “Live Painting” (6 performances), Zest, Ubud, Indonesia
2024
