Maria Margolina
Maria Margolina (1998, Dnipro) is a media and sound artist & cultural worker currently based between Berlin and Munich. In her artistic practice, she primarily focuses on sound, while also incorporating other media such as video, poetry, and objects and photography. Through her work, she explores themes of memory and trauma in a broad sense, engaging with contemporary discourses on memory politics and the state of (late) capitalism, approaching them from political, socio-cultural, and autobiographical perspectives. Her works oscillate between collective, collaborative, participatory, performative, and installation-based approaches. Since 2019, she has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the classes of Olaf Nicolai, Jan St. Werner, and Hito Steyerl. In addition to her work at various art and music institutions, such as Lothringer 13 Halle, Q-O2, and Haus der Kunst, she has been part of the Munich-based online radio "Radio 80000" since 2020 and is active as a DJ and producer under her pseudonym "Slovva."
Artworks
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Drawing on various internet aesthetics and contemporary forms of image production, the work 1/1/2012 addresses questions of liminality and escapism in a (post-)digital and (post-)capitalist age. Referring to internet-related discourses (such as the conspiracy theory about the end of the world in 2012), as well as subcultures and meme culture, the piece explores how detachment, purpose, and identity loss are visually expressed and navigated.